She followed with a second tweet saying Metzger no longer worked for her before dropping the news-making post implying the show’s end. The event cancellation is one of several Schumer has made today in the wake of a controversy involving a writer for her Comedy Central show, Kurt Metzger.
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However, following her bombshell statement, Schumer once again took to Twitter to clear up the issue.
Schumer called Metzger her “friend”, but explained she didn’t read his Facebook rants. As it happens, just a major delay for “the next year at least” so Amy Schumer can tour. “And what’s consensual and what’s not”. “His words are not mine”, Amy Schumer tweeted on August 17 about Kurt Metzger, after the writer made very offensive sexual assault comments. With friends like these….
In fact, Schumer admits that Metzger’s skewed viewpoint is part of why he’s such a good fit for “Inside Amy Schumer”. Like he just – he gets something from going after people, making them mad. In his ongoing rant on Facebook, Metzer has been chastising the system for going after Upright Citizens Brigade comic Aaron Glaser, who he believes was painted guilty of rape on scant evidence. She pointed out that everyone should focus on getting the problem done because she was sexually assaulted and she encourages women to come out.
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.
She is now promoting her memoir The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, while shooting a new movie with Goldie Hawn. “Right now there are no plans for the TV show to come back in the near future, so nobody is on my staff”, she shared. People, they want [Metzger’s] head; they want to burn him at the stake. “That is not representative of me at all”, Amy told Charlie Rose. I know because women said it and that’s all I need!
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Watch the clip from Schumer’s interview with Rose below.
