Ryan Reynolds hits back at neighbour Martha Stewart’s dig claiming he’s ‘not funny’

Ryan Reynolds has hit back at Martha Stewart after she said he wasn’t funny.

The Deadpool and Wolverine star wasn’t impressed when the 83-year-old lifestyle guru – who he lives close to in Bedford, New York – claimed his wisecracking ways were part of an act but joked it wouldn’t be wise to ‘disagree’ with her.

Responding to Martha’s viral comments, the 48-year-old actor wrote on X: ‘I’d disagree with her. But I tried that once.

‘The woman is unexpectedly spry. She really closed the gap after a mile or so.’

Replying with his own cheeky swipe, Ryan’s co-star Hugh Jackman commented: ‘Finally someone says it.’

Martha had previously admitted she was ‘going to get in trouble’ when she dissed ‘serious’ Ryan.

Ahead of her Netflix documentary, when asked during an appearance on Bilt Rewards’ Rent Free game show which celebrities respondents had thought would be fun to hang out with, she mused: ‘He’s probably on the list just ‘cause he covers himself up in his movies and you don’t see his face — Ryan Reynolds, is he one of those?

‘And you want to know something? He’s not so funny in real life. No, he’s not so funny.

‘He’s very serious. He’s a good actor.

‘He can act funny, but he isn’t funny. Maybe he can get to be funny again.

‘I’m going to get in trouble. He’s my neighbour.’

Ryan and his actress wife Blake Lively, 37, own a $2million home near Martha’s 153-acre property. Martha became friends with the couple as soon as they bought their house in her neighbourhood.

She told the HuffPost in 2014: ‘(Blake) moved into my neighbourhood a couple of years ago with Ryan – before they got married they bought a house right around the corner from my house.

‘And they started to come over, not to borrow sugar, but just as friends.

‘They’re very friendly, very nice people. In a way, kind of shy – not shy on the screen, at all, if you’ve seen any of Blake’s movies – but very shy in person.’

This comes after Martha brutally tore into her own documentary, days after it finally premiered on Netflix.

The iconic businesswoman was the focus of a new special by director RJ Cutler, who delved into her decades-long career, her home empire and her time spent in prison in the early 2000s.

The documentary, simply titled Martha, was released last week and has already shot up the top 10 chart on the streaming platform.

However, it seems as though she wasn’t too impressed with how she had been portrayed in the program, branding it ‘shocking’ that the filmmaker had used ‘very little’ of the access he had been granted in the final cut.

She wasted no time in picking the footage apart in an interview with the New York Times, fuming: ‘Those last scenes with me looking like a lonely old lady walking hunched over in the garden? Boy, I told him to get rid of those. And he refused. I hate those last scenes. Hate them.

‘I had ruptured my Achilles’ tendon. I had to have this hideous operation. And so I was limping a little. But again, he doesn’t even mention why — that I can live through that and still work seven days a week.

‘He had three cameras on me. And he chooses to use the ugliest angle. And I told him, “Don’t use that angle! That’s not the nicest angle. You had three cameras. Use the other angle.” He would not change that.

‘My magazine, my Martha Stewart magazine, which you might say is traditional, was the most modern home magazine ever created. We had avant-garde photography. Nobody ever showed puff pastry the way I showed it. Or the glossaries of the apples and the chrysanthemums.

‘And we prided ourselves so much on all of that modernism. And he didn’t get any of that.’

Although she conceded that she loved ‘the first half’, Martha was left unhappy with how little RJ included about her groundbreaking Martha Stewart magazine, her close bond with her grandchildren, her love of travel and the lack of rap music in the soundtrack, slamming the inclusion of a ‘lousy classical score’ instead.

Despite her criticisms, RJ remained happy with the finished product and vowed he is ‘really proud’ of how everything came across.

‘I’m not surprised that it’s hard for her to see aspects of it,’ he added. ‘It’s a movie, not a Wikipedia page. It’s the story of an incredibly interesting human being who is complicated and visionary and brilliant.’

Martha has been a firm fixture of the spotlight for four decades, and dropped with her first cookbook, Entertaining, in 1982.

From there, she launched a magazine, fronted two TV shows and led the way on a variety of business ventures.

The Netflix documentary sheds light on her biggest moments in the spotlight, as well as sharing a glimpse into who she is behind closed doors.

‘Martha Stewart built an empire with her impeccable taste and business acumen,’ the official synopsis read.

‘One phone call changed everything. She tells her story in this documentary.’