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The comic posts a cryptic tweet and her agents decline to comment.
Amy Schumer tweeted a message late Wednesday suggesting she is walking away from her Peabody- and Emmy-winning Comedy Central sketch show Inside Amy Schumer, which was renewed in January for a fifth season to air in 2017.
"We aren't making the show anymore," Schumer wrote on her Twitter page following a flap in which she condemned friend and comedian Kurt Metzger over his comments about sexual assault. Metzger is credited as being a writer on Inside Amy Schumer, though Schumer posted multiple times that "he is not a writer on my show."
"I didn't fire Kurt. He isn't a writer for my show because we aren't making the show anymore. There are no writers for it," Schumer wrote late Wednesday. Moments later she re-tweeted a fan who wrote "we'll miss your show."
Reps for Comedy Central and Schumer did not respond to THR's multiple requests for comment about the status of the show. Of course, Schumer could have been referring to Inside Amy Schumer's production schedule, with Schumer currently in the midst of a massive tour to support her newly released first book.
Should Schumer walk away from her show, it would come after Viacom-owned Comedy Central in January renewed the sketch series for a fifth season that was poised to return in 2017. Season four of the Peabody Award-winning comedy ended in June with little fanfare.
While Inside Amy lacks linear viewers — the season four finale registered just 491,000 same-day viewers — it makes up for in viral magnitude. In offering an early renewal for season five, Comedy Central noted that its third run grew more than 200 percent in total video streams — a six-fold increase year-over-year — with more than 83 million videos streamed.
The in-demand writer-actress recently published her first book —The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo — a collection of comedic and revealing essays about her life. The book followed her breakout success with feature Trainwreck, which she wrote and starred in. Her work on the movie earned her a WGA Award for best screenplay as well as the Golden Globe for best actress.
Keeping Schumer on the Comedy Central roster had been a top priority in January at the time of the show's early renewal. The cabler famously offered Schumer The Daily Show hosting gig after Jon Stewart announced he would be departing.
Schumer's uncertain status with the cable network arrives just days after Comedy Central opted to cancel Larry Wilmore's The Daily Show companion The Nightly Show. Comedy Central president Kent Alterman singled out that show's lack of linear and multi-platform viewership in making the decision. He told THR that a search is under way to find a replacement for Wilmore's 11:30 p.m. slot and revealed that he would look both internally at Comedy Central's roster of talent as well as outside the network. New episodes of Chris Hardwick's @Midnight will fill the slot until a replacement show has been worked out.
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