Amy Schumer: I received death threats after Oscars seat-filler joke

Actor says the misogyny is unbelievable' after the response to her pretending to mistake Kirsten Dunst for a placeholding stand-in

Amy Schumer received death threats of sufficient plausibility that the authorities contacted her in the wake of a joke she made at the Oscars, the actor has revealed.

Speaking on the Howard Stern Show, Schumer discussed the segment of the 27 March ceremony in which she pretended to mistake the actor Kirsten Dunst, Oscar-nominated for her role in The Power of the Dog, for a seat-filler - someone who sits in a guest's chair while they leave briefly to visit the bathroom, to give the impression of a full room.