The song The Lonely Island wanted to perform at the 2018 Oscars

'Saved the world from the devil below/ But I'm sure it was hard for Sir Daniel Day-Lewis to learn how to sew'

Jimmy Kimmel's idea to have a star-studded troupe crash a local cinema screening - ending in Armie Hammer launching hot dogs into the audience - wasn't the most elaborate bit pitched for this year's Academy Awards.

The Lonely Island, in fact, penned a track so celebrity-packed, so deliberately unfeasible that it was ultimately rejected for being "financially and logistically impossible".

Titled "Why Not Me?", the song addresses the yearly conversation as to why so many big-budgeted, popular films never get a look-in when it comes to the big awards.

Opening on Thor and Wonder Woman, the latter laments: "Why not me? I left my family to fight for what's right/ Saved the world from the devil below/ But I'm sure it was hard for Sir Daniel Day-Lewis to learn how to sew."

Pennywise, AKA It's killer clown, then decides to chime in. "Why not me? In All the Money in the World, they kidnapped one kind/ And they got a nomination; I killed hundreds/ I guess that's what you get when you're not 'classically handsome'," he sings.

Girl's Trip's Tiffany Haddish also gets her say, with the four Chrises (Hemsworth, Evans, Pine, and Pratt) petitioning for their own "Best Chris" award they can share between them; Michael Fassbender even attempts to join in before realising his film The Snowman was neither a box office smash nor critically acclaimed.

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