Before making a joke about the late Robert Kardashian in Kinda Pregnant, Amy Schumer said she sought permission from his daughter Kim Kardashian.
During an interview on The Howard Stern Show, the actress discussed a scene in the Netflix film where her character reads a bedtime story while babysitting, that she reads from the pages of a spoof pop culture magazine.
“There was once a family of beautiful, beautiful princesses called the Kardashians,” her character says in the scene. “And they lived in a palace that their dad bought them by defending a murderer.”
However, before that joke was finalized in the script and filmed, Schumer called Kim to get her opinion.
“I called Kim Kardashian. I said, ‘I want to make this joke,’” she recalled. “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.”
Kim’s father, who died in 2003, was a close friend of Simpson’s and served as his defense attorney in the trial for the murder of his then-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. Simpson died in April 2024. A recent Lifetime doc explored the life of Nicole Brown.
Schumer and Kim had previously joined forces when Kim was set to host Saturday Night Live. During an episode of The Kardashians in 2022, Schumer was filmed helping Kim brainstorm jokes to say in her monologue ahead of her hosting debut.
The actress has also been candid about her friendship with Kim. In an 2022 interview on The Howard Stern Show, Schumer complimented the Kardashians as being “really cool” and called Kim “an amazing person.”
In Kinda Pregnant, Schumer’s character dons a fake belly in the hopes of convincing her friends she’s pregnant. The film, which is available to stream on Netflix, also stars Will Forte and Damon Wayans Jr.
“This is the one,” Schumer told Howard of her new Netflix film. “I think this is as funny as Trainwreck. I think it’s gonna be a hit.”
Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison produced the film. “Adam is very hands on,” she said of Sandler’s approach as a producer. “He’s looking at scripts, he’s looking at dailies — I was impressed.”
