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.
Penedono
06/01/18 at 01:05am
@ Big Erns: Admire the passion, but you misunderstand some of the things you're bringing up. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and allow that you're not willfully ignoring particular problems simply to strengthen your view, (though everyone falls into that trap sometimes.)
@ some of the rest of you: One-off screen names, you're shouting into a wind tunnel, you know that, right? Repeating all the neat names and insults and chants you find all over social media like you're clever? No One Cares What You Think When You Do That.
@ myself: Well ****, I'm as anonymous as the rest of these misfits...
I'd be nihilistic if it mattered
05/31/18 at 07:16pm
Arguing on the internet is like winning the special olympics.. even if you win, you're still retarded.
Big Erns
05/31/18 at 07:11pm
@Real American or I should say Real Communist since thats what your kind is. You love that word Snowflake, don't you wish your librard soyboy antifa friends would've come up with it! Oh u dorks came up with Trumptards after people started calling u Libtards, how unique! Funny how u call yourself "Real American" & yet u get triggered & run for your safe space when people chant "USA USA USA"! Meanwhile your chanting "We're hear we're gay we're gonna fight the kkk"(U know the kkk that was started by the democrats). Samantha Bee just called Ivanka Trump a "Feckless Cunt" for releasing a picture of her hugging her child & will she get fired? Nope she's getting an award. Its also funny how u keep calling people who think for themselves & go against the stream the sheep! U keep believing everything the msm is feeding u & somehow we're the sheeps!!! You leftist always use the Nazi tactic of accusing your enemy of everything that you're guilty of! I hope u wanna be tough guys get the civil war that your pushing for, of course I'm sure you'll be hiding in your mommys basement while we REAL AMERICAN'S defend OUR freedom against YOUR friends. Now reply with some stolen insults like "Snowflake" again & side with the establishment & SJW crowd all while calling the people sheep who dare to rebel against the tyranny of the left! People like u only act tough when u have the lynch mob to back u up. Hypocrisy is your game & Sheep is YOUR name!!! I get that your a troll but your an establishment troll which is like being a homophobic homosexual, which I wouldn't be surprised if u were that too. The NFL players were hurting the brand & should be made to stand just like we all do what we have to at work, or find other employment, ABC was well within their rights to fire Roseanne because she hurt their brand, enough said!
tirebiter
05/31/18 at 06:38pm
@JP. The theory of evolution does not claim that humans descended from apes. And even if it did, that wasn't the point that Barr was making.
I'd like to say "nice try". But it really wasn't.
JP
05/31/18 at 03:06pm
The progressives don't believe in God and creation, they believe in evolution. In fact they openly mock Christian beliefs. But now, it seems they must also be science deniers. They think that the theory of evolution (that we're all, including Valerie Jarret, descended from apes) is now considered racist. Boy those Progressives are tying themselves up in knots with their conflicting ideologies.
Tony D.
05/31/18 at 12:47pm
@MoeB
So are you saying racism only works one way... someone surely needs to go back to school.
Conservatives
05/31/18 at 12:25pm
You wanna know why people are upset cause conservatives can say one “racist” tweets that’s okay but people can call trump an orange ape that’s okay. There’s a huge double standard with liberal media and conservatives. You liberals are just upset how successful this show is.
Tony D.
05/31/18 at 12:21pm
We’ll do what we gotta do.
She messed up.
As conservatives our standards should be higher so we’ll take the punishment.
Let the liberals continue to talk about beating up conservatives and the president and burning down the White House and killing the president it’s all fine... we’re grownups, they’ll grow up one day too.
J
05/31/18 at 11:22am
Disregard previous msg. Total bs
J
05/31/18 at 11:18am
Just read the show was picked up on Fox network.
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