Racist tweets bring an end to comedy's biggest comeback.
May 29, 2018
Just two months after picking up Roseanne for an 11th season, ABC has reversed the move. The cancellation comes after show star Roseanne Barr took to Twitter with a series of racist and anti-semitic posts. The most offending being a now-deleted tweet calling adviser to former President Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett, an offspring of the “Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes.”
The backlash that followed was immediate and intense, with numerous celebrities and pundits speaking out against her remarks. Barr subsequently apologized, calling the tweet a joke, but it was too late. The damage had been done.
Comedian Wanda Sykes was the first person involved with the show to make a move, announcing her departure from writing on Season 2 this morning. But that was just the beginning, as mere hours later, ABC Entertainment chief Channing Dungey announced that the network was cancelling the show due to her "abhorrent, repugnant" words that were "inconsistent with our values."
The decision was obviously not made lightly, as Roseanne's comeback was the biggest success story ever for a revived series. The show's Season 10 premiere in March surpassed all expectations by drawing a massive audience of 18 million viewers with an impressive 5.2 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic. Those numbers are almost unheard of nowadays, especially for broadcast comedies.
But now instead of going on another likely-lengthy run, Roseanne's revival ends after just nine episodes, with the now-series finale airing one week ago.
Oh....OK
05/31/18 at 10:03am
Yet Wanda Dykes can call Trump a Orangutan.Bill Cosby Raped multiple woman and his show still runs.SNL jokes about Trump all the time and The View is the worst.Yet they're still on.So it only matters WHO you joke about.Talk about Double Standards
Tony D.
05/31/18 at 09:07am
Very funny that as my comment is “pending moderation”, I get an alert on my phone that one of the late night unfunny joke recyclers opened her vulgar mouth...
Let’s see her punishment?
Tony D.
05/31/18 at 08:55am
We’ll do what we gotta do.
She F’ed up.
As conservatives our standards should be higher so we’ll take the punishment.
Let the libtards continue to talk about beating up conservatives and the president and burn down the White House and killing the president it’s all fine, we’re grownups they’ll grow up one day too
Real American
05/31/18 at 07:31am
And a snowflake melts down. Even when they are told they are being trolled the conservatives up and prove the term snowflake. We all know this wasn't a double standard but a country fed up with hate and anger wanting to readjust for a few years of slip up. If ABC had allowed this then they would have given up all power to the snowflakes. Anytime the conservatives didn't like something ABC would have to change to fit the meltdown. Yes the NFL as a company has the right to make players stand, the same as ABC has the right to cancel any show it shows. The problem is that one was a respectful protest and the other after a tweet using a century old insult against a person's race.
Also the show was built on the angering sane people and making the conservative sheep happy. Not that many people loved it, most thought it was ok, they just did what there shepherd told them.
MoeB
05/31/18 at 07:02am
@Super Upset Teenager.
That's because you are either two young or stupid. If you're too young..Stay in school and learn something. If you're stupid than there's no hope for you.
MoeB
05/31/18 at 07:01am
@Big Erns
So you talk about the national anthem. Like that really means anything, but I guess you don't remember how Roseanne disgraced the national anthem. So you don't have a problem with that?
Please STFU and stop responding with your BS.
@dr. Smith
You moron who is Polaski? You DF. Good to see you know what you're talking about when you comment.
Malvaudo
05/31/18 at 01:41am
So glad this show got canceled and not because of her tweet. The show was trash. The original was decent at best but this reboot was horrible. So glad it is over now. :)
Super Upset Teenager.
05/30/18 at 09:08pm
i don’t understand the cancellation of a hit over ONE tweet that was “racist”, is it racist when a black person hates on a white person?? NO, why is it always when a white person hates on a black person?? WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL ABC, cancel The View too for its stuff to “talking to jesus is a mental illness” I AM ON A BOYCOTT OF ABC. #ISTANDWITHROSEANNE!
Big Erns
05/30/18 at 02:36pm
@Real American the irony is that u call your self "Real American" & yet defend the racist bums in the NFL who refuse to stand for the anthem! LMAO! People like u are so out of touch with reality! The left didn't come up with the term Snowflakes, Soyboys like u just read insults like that online & try to claim them as your own. Go defend the MS-13 animals some more & leave the insults to people with some authenticity..
Luck of the Draw
05/30/18 at 01:24pm
Honestly the show wasn't that funny. I liked the original but didn't really care for it this time around. As far as Trump being called an orangutan, that doesn't really count because spray tan isn't a race.
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