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

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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 record a song from a 2008 episode split, presented 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.

“I know it’s kind of lame not to say what the premise was, but it was basically like we were both really old, and we were having a picnic, (an) elderly couple, and one of us gets stung by a scorpion . 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.

Andy Samberg as Doctor, Will Forte as Doctor Uncle Jimmy and Amy Adams as Ellen Pompeo during the “Dr. Uncle Jimmy’s Smokehouse and Outpatient Surgical Facility” sketch on March 8, 2008. NBCUniversal via Getty Images

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 “Hero Song” sketch, featuring 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.

Taran Killam and Adams on SNL on December 16, 2014. NBCU Photobank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images

“I know it’s kind of lame not to say what the premise was, but it was basically like we were both really old, and we were having a picnic, (an) elderly couple, and one of us gets stung by a scorpion . 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.’”

Adams poses for a portrait at the 27th SCAD Savannah Film Festival on October 29, 2024 in Savannah, Georgia. Getty Images

Instead, the team came up with the “Hero Song” sketch, featuring 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.

“And it was very educational for me. It’s not something I’ve even thought about in our work. 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.”

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

Adams hosted the show again in 2014.