Kevin Smith isn’t afraid to bite the hand that feeds him – “Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back” makes several jokes at the expense of Miramax, the studio that’s backed most of his movies, including this one.

“They were OK with a character saying that everything went to hell for them after releasing ‘She’s All That,'” Smith said, referring to the 1999 Freddie Prinze Jr. comedy. “They had a real sense of humor about that.”

But he said Miramax suits asked him to ditch two planned sequences that skewered “The Crying Game,” “The Piano,” “Shakespeare in Love” and “The Cider House Rules.”

“They were afraid it would play too inside,” Smith said. “But at test screenings, the jokes that go over huge are jokes like a drug dealer saying, ‘Miramax, they account for 78 percent of my business.'”