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  • Amy Schumer Makes “Pussy” Okay On Comedy Central

    It is now okay to say “pussy” on Comedy Central. All thanks to Amy Schumer, of Inside Amy Schumer fame, as well as the show’s executive producers. During the second season, the slang for female genitalia became a point of contention due to the fact that “dick” and other terms for the male sex organ are used freely in other Comedy Central shows including The Colbert Report and South Park.

    On Saturday, November 8, Schumer and the show’s executive producers attended the New York Comedy Festival to talk about the show to a sold out crowd at Paley Center. Executive producer Jessi Klein brought up the topic of their fight to say “pussy” on air and referred to their victory as a “great moment in U.S. history”.

    — Entertainment Weekly (@EW) November 10, 2014

    In the end, it was Inside Amy Schumer executive producer Dan Powell who took action. According to Powell, “Halfway through the first season, we started to realize that a lot of the show was addressing women’s issues and gender politics. I’d written a letter, sort of like I’d write to my congressman, and I guess it struck a chord.” Schumer calls the letter Powell’s “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” moment.

    Of course, in true Inside Amy Schumer fashion, they used the word in a sketch involving animated meerkats that satirizes Hollywood’s treatment of female celebrities.

    Amy Schumer is a stand-up comedian who joined the fifth season of NBC show Last Comic Standing, a stand-up comedy competition, where she finished fourth. Back in 2010, Schumer did her first Comedy Central special and this marked the beginning of her partnership with the company. She appeared in the Comedy Central roasts for Charlie Sheen and Roseanne Barr and in June 2012, she started working on a show for the network which would eventually become Inside Amy Schumer.

    Schumer will next be seen on the film Trainwreck, a film she co-wrote with director Judd Apatow.

  • Amy Schumer Wins Battle Over P-Word Censor, Opens Gates for Other Comedians

    “We can say ‘pussy’ now!”

    It’s official. Comedians on Comedy Central are now allowed to say the word whenever they please.

    This great moment in Comedy Central history happened due to the tireless fight of comedian Amy Schumer and her executive producer Dan Powell. Previously, Schumer was not allowed to say the p-word on her show Inside Amy Schumer on the cable network; however, other references to male organs were allowed if they weren’t used in reference to sex.

    “Dan decided that it wasn’t fair that they bleep the word ‘pussy,’” Schumer said.

    “Because you are allowed to say the word ‘dick’ on Comedy Central,” added Jessi Klein, head writer and executive producer.

    “Halfway through the first season, we started to realize that a lot of the show was addressing women’s issues and gender politics,” said Powell. “I’d written a letter, sort of like write I’d write to my congressman, and I guess it struck a chord.”

    After a conference call with the bigwigs at Comedy Central, the network assented.

    “That was Dan’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” said Schumer.

    The word was used for the first time in the sketch Acting Off-Camera in which Schumer does a voice-over gig for a kids animated movie with Jessica Alba and Megan Fox. When Schumer goes to the studio to record she finds out that her animated character, unlike the other two curvaceous ones, is “really fat, with twigs in its hair, and a huge [visible] vagina.”

    A few seconds later Schumer deadpans, “My character has a pussy.”

    During a Q&A with fans at the New York Comedy Festival, Schumer told fans she knew her series had finally arrived because she saw that “someone dressed up as that meerkat with the exposed pussy for Halloween.”

    “It was a great moment in U.S. history,” said Klein.