*This post has been updated to reflect Amy Schumer’s most recent comments on Twitter.
Amy Schumer has taken to Twitter to confirm that her show, Inside Amy Schumer, has not been cancelled. In fact, season five of the series will still happen, it’s just a matter of when.
On Wednesday, rumours began circulating that the fourth season of the Comedy Central show would be its last.
The comedian hinted at the end of the hit sketch series in a cryptic tweet, amidst a social media firestorm over staff writer Kurt Metzger’s incendiary sexual assault comments.
“I didn’t fire Kurt,” she wrote. “He isn’t a writer for my show because we aren’t making the show anymore. There are no writers for it.” Schumer also retweeted a fan who said she’d miss the show.
Schumer’s comment surprised many because the show had been granted a fifth season renewal in January. (Despite the show’s waning ratings and poor reviews.)
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Throughout the ordeal, Schumer had been criticized for remaining silent as Metzger wrote a series of posts on Facebook and Twitter in response to the Upright Citizens Brigade’s alleged banning of comedian Aaron Glaser, who was accused of sexual assault in a private Facebook group for female comedians. Metzger criticized the UCB for the ban, as well as the actions of the accusers.
She did ultimately tweet that she was “saddened and disappointed” in him, and that she “couldn’t be be more against his recent actions.”
But that didn’t quell the social media demand that she fire him from her show, where he is credited as a writer, including the recent season finale. She then tweeted, “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.”
— With files from Sarah Kelsey
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