UPDATE: Schumer clarified her comments about Inside Amy Schumer via Twitter on Thursday, August 18. “#InsideAmySchumer is not cancelled. @ComedyCentral has provided us with a wonderful home and we couldn’t be happier there. I am just touring. Doing Standup and focusing on writing more for the next year at least. We are slated for a season 5 but not in the foreseeable future,” she wrote. “I’m grateful @ComedyCentral is giving me this time to work on other projects. Now please grab my book #TheGirlWithTheLowerBackTattoo for now.”
ORIGINAL STORY:
Not funny at all. Amy Schumer is slamming former Inside Amy Schumer writer Kurt Metzger for controversial remarks that he made against rape victims earlier this week — and, perhaps, announced the end of her Comedy Central series, Inside Amy Schumer, as well.
Metzger, 39, reportedly made the comments on his Facebook page on Monday, August 15. “Don’t f–king complain about the police not helping if you didn’t bother going to the police at all,” he wrote. “‘Why aren’t the rape kits being tested??’ Because instead of actually educating women with useful information on what to do if they are being victimized, you blather nonsense about ‘culture’ and then tell them being weak is being strong.”
Schumer, 35, responded to the incident in a series of tweets on Wednesday. “I am so saddened and disappointed in Kurt Metzger. He is my friend and a great writer and I couldn’t be more against his recent actions,” she wrote. “Kurt does not work for me. He is not a writer on my show. Please stop asking me about it. His words are not mine.”
While discussing Metzger, Schumer hinted that Inside Amy Schumer is actually ending after five seasons. “I didn’t fire Kurt. He isn’t a writer for my show because we aren’t making the show anymore,” the Trainwreck actress added. “There are no writers for it.”
Schumer’s tweets come in the same week as the release of her new book, The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo. In the memoir, she revealed that an ex-boyfriend physically abused her and she believed that he was going to kill her.
Inside Amy Schumer debuted in 2013 and won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series last year. Metzger wrote and starred on the series since its pilot, and played roles such as Vlad and The Feenster.
