Amy Schumer gave Kim Kardashian a heads up before making a joke about her late father Robert Kardashian Sr. in the new comedy Kinda Pregnant.
In one scene in the film, now streaming on Netflix, Schumer’s character Lainy reads a fairy-tale-like bedtime story while babysitting — pulling from the pages of a spoof pop culture magazine titled Profile.
“There was once a family of beautiful, beautiful princesses called the Kardashians,” Lainy says in the scene. “And they lived in a palace that their dad bought them by defending a murderer.”
While on The Howard Stern Show, Schumer, 43, revealed that she went to Kim, 44, for permission: “I called Kim Kardashian. I said I want to make this joke … I asked if she would mind, and she didn’t mind. How cool is she? She’s like, ‘Yeah, do the one about my dad defending a murderer.’ She was that chill.”
Schumer and Kim have worked on jokes together in the past: As seen on a 2022 episode of The Kardashians series, Schumer helped Kim rehearse her Saturday Night Live monologue before her hosting debut.
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Robert Sr., who died in 2003, was a close friend of O.J. Simpson and served as a defense attorney in the former football player’s trial for the murder of his then-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. Simpson died in April 2024 at age 76.
Schumer co-wrote Kinda Pregnant with Julie Paiva. Directed by Tyler Spindel and produced by Adam Sandler, the film’s cast includes Jillian Bell, Will Forte, Damon Wayans Jr., Brianne Howey, Alex Moffat, Joel David Moore, Lizze Broadway, Urzila Carlson and Francis Benhamou.
Schumer’s Lainy is an English teacher in Brooklyn who, jealous of her best friend pregnancy, decides to wear a fake baby bump — then accidentally meets her dream man and gets caught up in a growing lie. The comedian previously told PEOPLE the movie is “laugh-out-loud funny and relatable.”
“Our society loves to make women feel like they are failing. This story shows women as human beings who are trying to make choices that are right for them and having fun together along the way,” added the Trainwreck star.
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