Amy Adams turned down a "very dirty" SNL song that would "scar" young fans

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” alumni Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, took time during “The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast” to abort a song from a 2008 episode hosted by Adams.

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

“I’m not going to go into 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.

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Amy Adams turned down a “very dirty” musical sketch with Andy Samberg when she hosted “SNL” in 2008. (Kevin Winter/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images)

‘I know it’s a bit cheesy not to say what the premise was, but it was basically like we were both really old, and we were having a picnic, a married couple of old people, and one of us gets stabbed by a Scorpio. And then I die or something, and the only lament on my deathbed is that we haven’t explored things sexually in our lives more, and that’s what this huge anthem is about.

He continued, “We played the beginning of it for her and read some of the lyrics, and she thought it was very funny, and she was as nice as ever. We love Amy. She’s a genius and she said, ‘That’s really funny. I can’t do that. Little girls are so obsessed with “Enchanted” right now. They’re going to find this out, and it’s going to be scarring for them, and I just can’t reconcile that right now. ”

Instead, the team came up with the draft “Hero’s Song”, with Samberg as a wannabe vigilante hero like Batman in “The Dark Knight.” As the sketch plays out, he prevents Adams’ character from being mugged, only to be punched by the robber.

side by side photos of Amy Adams and Andy Samberg

Samberg said that while Adams found the skit “very funny,” she had to turn it down out of respect for young fans of “Enchanted,” which came out just a few months before she hosted “SNL.” (Jesse Grant/Karwai Tang)

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“When we went out in five minutes to record ‘Hero Song,’ a mother and her little girl walked up, and the look on the little girl’s face when I saw Amy Adams, I thought, ‘Oh , she was so right,” said Samberg.

“She said, ‘That’s really funny. I can’t do that. Little girls are so obsessed with ‘Enchanted’ right now.”

–Andy Samberg

“And it was very educational for me. It’s not something I’ve ever thought about in our field. You know what I mean? She actually has an obligation and a responsibility to those children, and she took it very seriously. And I remember being really impressed by that.”

Samberg said, “I remember being very impressed” by Adams’ decision to skip the sketch out of a sense of “responsibility” to young “Enchanted” fans. (Paras Griffin/Getty Images)

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