Amy Schumer’s four-season run of Inside Amy Schumer on Comedy Central may have come to an abrupt end.
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Schumer was on the show to promote her new biography, “The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo”.
She said she could not fire him because “we aren’t making the show anymore”.
Schumer initially blocked various Twitter users who were calling on her to speak out about his comments, and she eventually replied that she was “disappointed” in Metzger and that he does not now work on her show, which is on hiatus.
“He gets something from going after people and making them mad. I am just touring”, she tweeted. “I would love to refocus the energy and the attention on the real problem”, she continued.
In a clip of her interview with Rose, Schumer again defends and distances herself from Metzger.
Variety reported that Metzger, a credited writer on numerous episodes for “Inside Amy Schumer” and someone the comedian has described as a friend, put up several Facebook posts responding to Upright Citizens Brigade for allegedly banning comedian Aaron Glaser.
Schumer sent many of her Twitter followers into a tailspin when she responded to users outraged by a recent string of misogynistic posts by one of Inside Amy’s writers, Kurt Metzger. “When a woman says she was assaulted, a lot of people’s first reaction is to say, ‘No you weren’t, ‘” she said.
The tweets led to speculation about the future of the show, which she later clarified is on hiatus as she works on other projects.
“I think Amy’s immediately viable movie career is something that she’s going to be pretty focused on going forward”.
“I want them to not attach me to what he’s writing”, she told Charlie Rose Thursday during a taping of his show airing Friday night.
“I was sexually assaulted”. “We are slated for a season 5 but not in the foreseeable future”, she wrote.
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Telling Rose that she had been a victim of sexual assault in the past, the actress said she encourages women to share their stories so men can better understand. “Let’s all get on the same page so that it happens less”. The full interview will be out this August 19 on PBS.
