Amy Schumer says she faced death threats over her Kirsten Dunst seat filler joke at the Oscars

• Amy Schumer said she got death threats over her Kirsten Dunst joke at the Oscars.
• Schumer called Dunst a seat filler during the awards show. She later said Dunst was in on the joke.

Amy Schumer says she received death threats after her joke about Kirsten Dunst being a seat filler at the Oscars.

At the 94th Academy Awards, Schumer performed a bit in which she pretended not to know who Dunst was and called her a "seat filler."

Schumer later said that both Dunst and her husband, Jesse Plemons, were in on the joke.

"I did a bit with Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons that was completely orchestrated. We talked beforehand," the comedian told Howard Stern in an interview Wednesday. "We all worked it out together."

She said she reached out to anyone she was planning to make fun of at the show beforehand to make sure it was okay with them.

"I've been burned too many times and I didn't want the camera to cut to somebody looking sad," Schumer said.

But following the Oscars, Schumer started to get death threats over the joke. She said people were angry at her for "disrespecting Kirsten Dunst like that."

She said there were so many threats and they were so serious that the Secret Service reached out to her.

"IThe Secret Service reached out to me. [People] were so mad that the Secret Service reached out to me about that bit," Schumer told Stern. "Misogyny is unbelievable."

Schumer said that Dunst tried to defuse the situation by revealing she knew about the joke once she heard Schumer was getting threatened over it.