Amy Schumer has revealed that she got so many death threats for poking fun at Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons that the Secret Service reached out to her.

The comedian shared hosting duties at last month's Academy Awards ceremony with fellow stars Regina Hall and Wanda Sykes.

One of her less well-received gags involved husband-and-wife actors Plemons and Dunst, who she poked fun at by suggesting that Dunst was a "seat filler" and asking her to move aside so she could speak to her partner.

Check out the moment below:

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Both actors were up for acting Oscars at the ceremony for their performances in The Power of the Dog, so Schumer was quite clearly only joking around with them. What's more, the gag was (like most of Schumer's lines) pre-planned and rehearsed with the celebs involved.

However, that didn't stop many viewers from feeling like Schumer had genuinely disrespected Dunst. During an interview with Howard Stern for his SiriusXM show, the comedian opened up about the extreme backlash the joke provoked from many viewers.

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"I did a bit with Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons. That was completely orchestrated beforehand," she told Stern on the show, which aired on Wednesday, April 13.

"The joke was that I was pretending I thought she was a seat filler. And we all worked that out together. I got death threats," Schumer added.

She went on to say that the death threats were so serious that they prompted the Secret Service to get in touch.

"I was like, 'I think you have the wrong number. It’s Amy, not Will [Smith],'" she joked, in reference to the King Richard star's now-infamous altercation with Chris Rock later in the ceremony.

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Elsewhere in the interview, Schumer reiterated that she fully briefed all the celebs she was planning on making jokes about, including Leonardo DiCaprio who she poked fun at for his often much younger girlfriends.

"To be honest, I actually did reach out to people I was going to joke about before, to make sure it was okay with them because I’ve been burned too many times. I didn’t want the camera to cut to somebody looking sad," she told Stern.

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Amy Schumer says Secret Service called her over death threats following Kirsten Dunst joke