New York: Amy Schumer says she won’t be working on her Comedy Central series, Inside Amy Schumer, for “the foreseeable future.”
The comedian wrote on Thursday on Twitter that “for the next year at least,” she’ll be touring and focusing on writing. She says a fifth season of the show is slated, but she’s happy Comedy Central is giving her time “to work on other projects.”
Schumer’s comments follow a tweet on Wednesday in which she said, “We aren’t making the show anymore.”
Comedy Central had no immediate comment.
Until now, there had been no indication the sketch-comedy series might be nearing its conclusion. After four seasons, it remains a popular and critical hit, having won a Peabody Award and two Emmys, with four Emmy nods this year.
The show’s future was called into question this week when the actress found herself embroiled in a hubbub surrounding comic Kurt Metzger’s controversial Facebook remarks regarding victims not reporting sexual assault. A tweet she wrote distancing herself from Metzger, who has written for and acted in her sketch comedy, then was interpreted that Inside Amy Schumer was kaput.
“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 tweeted Wednesday, noting, “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.”
