The 'Deadpool' actor was initially supposed to perform a different joke but replaced it with "his idea," the show's cue card holder Wally Feresten had claimed, which a spokesperson denies.

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We wouldn’t want to do anything too controversial unless they were in on it,” the show’s cue card guy Wally Feresten said.