Comedian Tammy Pescatelli Accuses Amy Schumer Joke-Stealing Scandal Went Too Far

Last weekend, Tammy Pescatelli's Twitter conversation with fellow comediennes Wendy Liebman and Kathleen Madigan sparked controversy about Amy Schumer's jokes and whether she had plagiarized material. Nearly a week later, Pescatelli apologizes for the way she voiced her concerns over stolen jokes, saying she went too far accusing the Trainwreck star.

Pascatelli recently appeared on the SiriusXM Opie with Jim Norton Show to talk about the controversy regarding Schumer's material, saying she thought she'd gone overboard with the accusations against the Inside Amy Schumer star.

"I went too deep," she told the radio host earlier this week. "It went too far, and for that I'm super apologetic."

Out of the three ladies that publicly accused Schumer of stealing their jokes, she was the most outspoken one in the Twitter conversation that sparked the scandal. Still, her opinion is that everything got blown out of proportion and said Schumer had "every right to be mad" at the accusations.

Perez Hilton reports that, before the apology, Pescatelli had taken to Twitter to call out Schumer for "career shaming" her, after the Comedy Central star wondered if the whole event had been a way for Pescatelli to draw some publicity to herself.

According to Newser, she's not the only comedian who has backtracked on her comments about Schumer. Last Tuesday, Liebman said she didn't think Schumer had directly stolen her material but rather "came up with the same joke" after she did, pointing out that she'd never accused Jennifer Lawrence's BFF of plagiarizing her. Madigan hasn't said anything further about the Schumer situation, but she did delete her own tweets about the subject from last weekend.

Ever since the claims first surfaced, Schumer has gone on to social media to deny she's stolen anyone's material, saying it'd be "stupid" of her to do such a thing in the first place and she'd never even consider taking other people's jokes.