Amy Schumer, who is now on the road promoting her memoir The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo, has been defending and condemning a comedian who has written on her Comedy Central show, Inside Amy Schumer.
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Apparently referring to outraged social media users, she continued: “They want his head”. She said she wanted the show’s writer’s room to include a variety of opinions and viewpoints, especially because “Jessi and I have such similar sensibilities”.
“Because he writes for the show, it’s a bigger story because of our connection and so whatever tangent he’s gone off on I have not agreed with”, she went on. “They want to burn him at the stake”, Schumer said of those attacking Metzger.
“We aren’t making the show anymore”, Schumer posted, in response to reports that one of her writers, Kurt Metzger, had been fired after making controversial comments about rape.
As for Inside Amy Schumer, Amy says it’s on hiatus, and that has nothing to do with Metzger’s comments nor does it mean he was sacked.
Schumer also spoke out against Metzger’s comments on Twitter, saying she was “saddened and disappointed” about “his recent actions”.
Something tells me that people won’t be forgetting about this incident when the show does eventually return to Comedy Central, and they’ll be looking to see if Metzger still has a spot on the writing staff. Schumer may call Metzger a “friend” but his ill-timed decision to go on a “satirical”, asinine rant two days before her book came out is a head-scratcher. “That is not representative of me at all”. Metzger has starred in episodes of Schumer’s Comedy Central show “Inside Amy Schumer” and has writing credits on the show. “But to focus your energy on online trolling I wouldn’t get anything done”, she said. “I was sexually assaulted”. And I want men to hear what happens, so there’s no confusion. Rose asked Schumer if the “real problem” is finding “a smart understanding of what rape has become”, which Schumer confirmed.
Schumer later clarified that her Comedy Central show was merely on hiatus as she pursues other projects.
“I didn’t fire Kurt”. She also canceled a Thursday appearance in Huntington, N.Y. She reiterated that he’s not now working for her, saying, “Nobody’s on my staff”.
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Schumer’s latest statement about the future of her Peabody Award-winning series is in stark contrast to an earlier comment in which she had announced that she and her team are no longer making the show. “There are no writers”.
