The Englewood mom jokes about Rock's 'personal throwdown' at the 2016 Oscars Watch video
The Girl Scout cookie gag at the 2016 Oscars was perhaps the one Chris Rock bit that didn't leave a bad taste in anyone's mouth -- including the New Jersey Girl Scout mom whom Rock targeted in the segment.
"Last night Zahra, my youngest, called me up and said, 'Daddy, how come we never sell the most cookies? How come Mrs. Dunn wins every year?'" Rock said during the telecast. "It would mean so much to my little girl if we could beat Linda Dunn."
"That was a personal throwdown," Linda Dunn of Englewood tells Access Hollywood. "We have a fun rivalry. Selling cookies is fun."
In the segment, Rock, whose two daughters live in Alpine (he's separated from their mother, Malaak Compton-Rock), admitted that prepping for the Oscars meant he missed out on Girl Scout cookie season, so he recruited a local Girl Scout troop to personally hit up the A-listers in the audience, including Julianne Moore, Leonardo DiCaprio and Charlize Theron. (They also received their cookies immediately. Unfair!)
Leonardo Decaprio looks more excited for his Girl Scout cookies than his first Oscar[?] pic.twitter.com/tHHgAArIsX
-- Reeebs (@reba_stanley) March 1, 2016
Dunn, a marketing executive, tells Access Hollywood that she's the one who recruited Malaak as a Girl Scout leader; one of Rock's two daughters is in the same troop as Dunn's daughter.
The money raised (Rock claimed during the broadcast it was $65,243, but that was later debunked by the Girl Scouts themselves; it was closer to $2,500) will be credited to the Inglewood troop in Los Angeles, not Rock's daughter's troop. But Dunn is fine with that: "90 million people watch the Oscars. You can't buy that type of publicity for the Girl Scouts. That was a wonderful thing that he did."
Here's footage taken of the Girl Scouts selling boxes to the stars while Rock hawked the cookies to, among other celebs, Leonardo DiCaprio:
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