Amy Adams refused to perform ‘very dirty’ song during past Saturday Night Live appearance

Hollywood star Amy Adams declined to perform a raunchy song during a guest appearance on Saturday Night Live, much to the surprise of other stars.

Amy Adams demonstrated one of the first rules of comedy: Know your audience.

Former Saturday Night Live cast member Seth Meyers, along with fellow SNL stars Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, took time during The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast to break down a song from a 2008 episode hosted by Adams.

While discussing the song, Samberg revealed that they originally had another idea for that week’s digital short, but Adams declined to participate.

Amy Adams politely refused to sing a song on Saturday Night Live because she feared it was too “dirty” for her younger fans. Picture: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images

The actress was supposed to perform the song in a 2008 skit on SNL with stars Andy Samberg (left) and Seth Meyers. Picture: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images

“I’m not gonna go into great detail about it, but it was a song that would have been a duet with me and Amy Adams, and it was very dirty,” he explained.

“I know that’s kind of sh***y to not say what the premise was, but it was basically like we were both really old, and we were having a picnic, [an] old people couple, and one of us gets stung by a scorpion. And then I’m dying or something, and the one lament on my deathbed is that we didn’t explore things more sexually in our life, and it’s this huge anthem about that.”

He continued, “We played the beginning of it for her and read a bunch of the lyrics, and she thought it was very funny, and she was so nice as always. We love Amy. She’s a genius, and 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, and I just can’t mix that right now.’”

Instead, the team came up with the sketch Hero Song, featuring Samberg as a wannabe vigilante hero like Batman in The Dark Knight. As the sketch plays out, he stops Adams’ character from being mugged, but is then pummelled by the mugger.

At the time, Adams had just starred in the 2007 family-friendly comedy Enchanted.

The actress feared the song would leave her younger fans scarred.

“When we went out to shoot Hero Song, 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,’” Samberg said.

“And it was very instructive for me. It’s not something I even ever thought about in our line of work. You know what I mean? Of 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.”

Representatives for Adams did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment on the proposed sketch.

Adams went on to host the show again in 2014.

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