“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.
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Because of his connection to her show, people immediately started asking Schumer what she thought of his comments, and her decision to block women on Twitter questioning her initial silence on Metzger sent a message very contradictory to the feminist stance of Inside Amy Schumer.
“She said Metzger was her friend, and he was on her show specifically to bring that “out-there male perspective” into the writers” room.
She goes on to say that she’s not on Facebook and so doesn’t read his rants, but has asked him to stop posting them because his actions reflect back on both her and the show.
Ultimately, said Schumer, “Whatever tangent he’s gone off on, I have not agreed with, and it’s been really upsetting to me seeing someone I care about hurt themselves like this”. “And what’s consensual and what’s not”. “So nobody’s on my staff, there are no writers”.
After writing tweets voicing her disapproval of Kurt’s words, she wrote, “I didn’t fire Kurt”. With friends like these….
Schumer tweeted that she was “so saddened and disappointed” by Metzger’s comments but insisted that he did not work for her anymore. Obviously, fans were confused, wondering: was Inside Amy Schumer cancelled? “There are no writers for it”, she noted Wednesday. “We are slated for a season 5 but not in the foreseeable future”, she added in another post.
“He gets something from going after people, making them mad”, Schumer said. “That is not representative of me at all”, she continued.
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And now she’s talking about the controversy in more detail with Charlie Rose, and why she thinks people should be more focused on the larger issue: the alleged rape. She pointed out that everyone should focus on getting the problem done because she was sexually assaulted and she encourages women to come out. “To focus your energy on online trolling, if I did that, I wouldn’t get anything done”, she said. It came in defense of fellow comedian Aaron Glaser who was banned from a few NYC comedy clubs after several women accused him of rape. “So let’s all get on the same page so that it happens less”. The full interview airs Thursday night on PBS.
