Should Schumer walk away from her show, it would come after Viacom-owned Comedy Central in January renewed the sketch series for a fifth season that was poised to return in 2017.
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“I’m not on Facebook so I don’t read his insane rants – he gets something from going after people and making them mad that is not representative of me at all”. “I’ve asked him, ‘Can you just stop?’ Because it comes back to me”.
Schumer herself tweeted the clip on Charlie Rose in which she addresses the Metzger issue. “He baits people, he’s the problem”.
“He baits people”, Schumer told Rose said.
Her tweet was prompted by the reaction to Kurt’s comments which saw calls for him to be sacked.
The Kurt Metzger-Amy Schumer saga got a little bit more complicated Wednesday night when the star and creator of Inside Amy Schumer insinuated that future episodes of the Comedy Central show may be in question. I know because women said it and that’s all I need! Comedy Central has not made any statements about the show but judging from Amy’s comments, the show is not going to be on air for the next scheduled season.
“We all need to be empowering each other”. “Let’s focus on actually getting the problem done”.
“I was sexually assaulted”.
To explain: an American comedian found himself banned from several stand-up clubs after being accused of being a serial rapist by multiple woman on the circuit.
“I am so saddened and disappointed in Kurt Metzger”, she wrote. “That is not representative of me at all”, she said of those who connected Metzger to Schumer.
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“She said Metzger was her friend, and he was on her show specifically to bring that “out-there male perspective” into the writers” room. “There are no writers for it”, she tweeted Thursday. “We are slated for a season 5 but not in the foreseeable future”, she continued. “There are no writers”.
