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Hillary Clinton turned down Michael Moore’s ‘comedy all-star’ team’s help in 2016

And you already thought Hillary Clinton was humorless. Michael Moore revealed he tried to create a comedy all-star team — including Amy Schumer, Chris Rock and Bill Maher — to anonymously help write material for Clinton during her 2016 run for president, but her camp turned Moore down and called Schumer too “dirty,” he said. …

And you already thought Hillary Clinton was humorless. Michael Moore revealed he tried to create a comedy all-star team — including Amy Schumer, Chris Rock and Bill Maher — to anonymously help write material for Clinton during her 2016 run for president, but her camp turned Moore down and called Schumer too “dirty,” he said.

“Before the debates … I kept thinking, ‘Trump has such thin skin, if Hillary just had like a comedy shiv in her hand, just to slip under that thin skin, he will implode,’ ” Moore said on Schumer’s podcast, “3 Girls, 1 Keith.”

The “Bowling for Columbine” director said he texted some funny friends for help. “I asked all you guys to form a Justice League of comedy, and we would write jokes and things for Hillary to say during the debates that would just make him melt,” Moore said.

Schumer said she was all in — but when Moore took the idea to Clinton’s camp, someone called Schumer “dirty.” (Schumer joked: “They’re not wrong.”)

Moore said that the left-leaning gang agreed to do the work for free, and with no credit. “We were going to do this confidentially … Our only joy [would have been knowing] that the line that brought down Trump was Amy’s [or one of the other incognito writers].” Schumer, who’s related to Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer, added, “We would [have] silently celebrate[d].”

Of Clinton’s team turning the professional comedic help down — Moore said the decision was made by “the same people who decided not to have her go to Wisconsin once during the election.” The Clinton campaign’s decision not to canvas heavily in parts of the Midwest is widely credited with having doomed her chances of taking over the Oval Office. Clinton made no visits to Wisconsin as the Democratic nominee, and only pushed a late charge in Michigan once internal polling showed the race tightening.

Moore called it “madness,” adding Clinton fell victim to the “Brooklyn bubble” (where her campaign was based). “The way things get insulated [from] the rest of the country is not helpful.”

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