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Ryan Reynolds responds to Martha Stewart saying he’s ‘not that funny’

Maybe Ryan Reynolds can’t stand the heat in Martha Stewart’s kitchen.

The Deadpool actor responded to the TV host’s recent claim that he’s “not that funny in real life” by being, well, not that funny…?

“I don’t agree with her,” Reynolds wrote on X. “But I tried that once. The woman is unexpectedly spry. She really closed the gap after a kilometer or so.”

Ryan Reynolds; Martha Stewart.

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It’s not immediately clear what he meant by his comments, although it certainly seems like he’s trying to be funny by suggesting that an 83-year-old woman shouldn’t be able to match him in a middle-distance track meet, or that some of the supposed previous disagreements he had with Stewart put her in such an offended tizzy that she chased him for more than a mile. Anyway, he basically proves her right.

Stewart had shared her two cents about the Red notice star as a guest on Bilt Rewards’ Rent for free game show. When asked to list celebrities that people think would be fun to hang out with, the hospitality mogul assumed Reynolds would be a popular response, but not without noting that he doesn’t deserve that reputation.

“He’s probably on the list just because he covers himself in his movies and you don’t see his face,” she said. ‘And you want to know something? He’s not that funny in real life.’

She repeated, “No, he’s not that funny. He’s very serious.’ Stewart did admit that Reynolds manages to incorporate funny mannerisms into his work. “He’s a good actor,” she said. ‘He can be funny, but he’s not funny. Maybe he can be funny again.”

Stewart knew her comments could cause an uproar. “I’m going to get in trouble,” she said. “He’s my neighbor.” Indeed, Reynolds and his wife, Blake Lively, own a home near Stewart’s farm in Bedford, NY

When asked about her personal choices for celebrities she would chill with, Stewart came up with a Reynolds-free list. ‘George Clooney, because he’s fun. “George is a lot of fun to be around,” she said. Stewart also opined that “Taylor Swift is beautiful” and that Brad Pitt and her boyfriend Snoop Dogg would make her list. “I’d take Ryan off, and I’d put someone else in.”

Stewart is the subject of Netflix’s buzzy new documentary project Marta, but she is not silent about her problems with the film. “I hate those last scenes,” she said The New York Times on the day the film premiered, referring to moments in which she “looked like a lonely old lady walking hunched over in the garden.”

Stewart also said the film placed too much weight on her trial and the five months she spent in jail after being charged with obstruction of justice in the early 2000s. “It wasn’t that important,” she said. “The trial and actual incarceration lasted less than two years of an 83-year-old life. I considered it a vacation, to tell you the truth… the trial itself was extremely boring.”

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