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Amy Adams Rejected This SNL Sketch For Being Too Graphic For Young Fans

Ellen Durney
3 min read

For most celebrities, hosting Saturday Night Live is the perfect opportunity to have some fun and take a risk. But sometimes, you've got to know where to draw the line.

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Appearing on a recent episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers , Amy Adams recalled working with the Lonely Island trio while hosting SNL in March 2008. Amy remembered that Andy Samberg pitched a dirty duet for the two of them that was so sexually "graphic," she had to speak up.

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"I'll give you the gist without telling you the punchline," she explained to Seth. "It was this couple [and] he got bit by a spider in the park, and she's like, 'Honey, I love you so much, and now that you're dying, is there any last wish?' And he's like, 'Yes, I never got a chance to…' And then said what could only be described as the most graphic thing that he wanted to do with me."

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For context, this happened just a few months after Amy starred as the singing princess Giselle in Enchanted , and she feared that the NSFW sketch idea would be inappropriate — and potentially scarring — for the movie's young fans.

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"I was so keenly aware of all the young girls that were watching Enchanted ," she explained. "And I didn't want to be the princess singing about that particular act, you know?"

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For that reason, Amy rejected the idea, and fortunately, the team took it well — despite the fact that the song had already been written and fully produced.

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Andy previously discussed the "very dirty" song on The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast back in 2024 , saying that Amy's rejection of the idea wound up being an important learning curve at that time in his career.

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"She was like, 'That's really funny. I can't do that. Little girls are so obsessed with Enchanted right now. They will find this, and it will be scarring for them,'" he recalled Amy saying. "Within five minutes, a mother and her little girl walked up, and the look on the little girl's face upon seeing Amy Adams, I was like, 'Oh, she was so right.'"

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"It was very instructive for me," he continued. "It's not something I even ever thought about in our line of work, you know what I mean? Like, she actually has an obligation and a responsibility to those kids, and she took it really seriously. And I remember being really impressed by that."

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Andy and Amy wound up switching to another sketch called "Hero Song," about a superhero who beats up a criminal who robbed Amy.

All's well that ends well! You can watch Amy on Late Night with Seth Meyers here .

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