Amy Schumer will do anything for a laugh.
Sascha Seinfeld — a staff writer on “Life & Beth,” and the daughter of Jerry Seinfeld — introduced the comedian at the Variety Power of Women event in NYC, and revealed an outrageous joke Schumer once played during a dinner to honor the late Jimmy Buffett.
“Last summer at a memorial dinner for the late, great Jimmy Buffett, when his widow Jane Buffett entered the room of grieving guests, Amy took one of her t–s out, walked right up to Jane, and gave her a huge hug,” Seinfeld said. “It cut right through the darkness and made everyone smile. If that isn’t a celebration of life, I don’t know what is.”
Seinfeld added, “She also said to his daughter and my friend Delaney, ‘If it makes you feel any better, I wish my dad was dead.’”
Schumer was friends with the Buffetts for years, and has said she listened to Jimmy’s music growing up.
“It just made you feel like everything was going to be OK,” she has said. The singer had a cameo in the second season of Schumer’s show “Life & Beth.”
The “Margaritaville” crooner passed away from skin cancer in September of last year at the age of 76.
Seinfeld also told a crowd including Glenn Close, Nicky Hilton, Tamron Hall, and Melissa Joan Hart that when she was single, Schumer would respond to would-be suitors on dating apps with messages like, ‘”You rich?”
Schumer used her speech to talk about female empowerment and the organization Everytown for Gun Safety, which she began working with after two women were shot and killed while seeing her movie “Trainwreck” in July 2015.
Producer Shonda Rhimes, “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” star Mariska Hargitay and singer Anitta were also honored at the event hosted by Amber Ruffin.
