Amy Schumer takes down sexist censorship policies

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By Tricia Gilbride2014-11-10 22:07:58 UTC

Amy Schumer: comedian, writer, actress, activist.

Schumer revealed her successful fight for the right to say the word "pussy" without being censored on her Comedy Central show during an Inside Amy Schumer Paley Center panel on Saturday as part of the New York Comedy Festival, Vulture reports.

Schumer and the show's executive producers Jessi Klein and Dan Powell explained that Comedy Central's previous standards smacked of gender inequality. "Pussy" was not allowed, but "dick" was, as long as as the context wasn't sexual a fact that did not go unnoticed by a show that frequently satirizes gender politics.

Powell wrote an impassioned letter to network executives making the case for using "pussy" on the air after they began working on Season 2 of the show.

"That was Dan's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," Schumer joked, referring to the 1939 James Stewart film where he plays a nave senator proposing his first bill.

The crusade paid off, and the word "pussy" appeared for the first time on Comedy Central uncensored on April 29, in a in a sketch called "Acting Off-Camera." In the sketch, Schumer records a voiceover for an animated meerkat with a visible vagina named Dumpy who fights crime with "hot" meerkats voiced by Jessica Alba and Megan Fox.

Bow down.

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