Five outrageous things Roseanne Barr has done over the years 1 Hour Ago | 02:21
ABC announced on Tuesday that it would cancel the hit sitcom "Roseanne" following "abhorrent" comments from the show's star, Roseanne Barr, who had compared former Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett to an ape.
Just an hour later, Barr's talent agency ICM Partners dropped her as a client, the firm confirmed to CNBC.
Barr's swift downfall comes after a year of successes, including record ratings for her show's debut and a congratulatory call from the president. Throughout, however, Barr has attracted criticism for her use of social media to provoke, attack, and spread conspiracy theories.
"Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show," Channing Dungey, president of ABC Entertainment, said in a statement Tuesday.
In a since-deleted tweet, Barr said of Jarrett: "muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj."
Critics immediately slammed Barr's remark as racist. Likening black people to apes is an attack commonly used by racists. The Muslim Brotherhood, meanwhile, is an Islamist political group. Barr had apologized for her comments earlier in the day and said she would be refraining from using her Twitter account, which was still live at the time of publication.
spiritualgorila on May 29th, 2018 at 18:35 UTC »
I'd watch Dan the show, just sayin'
JimGerm on May 29th, 2018 at 18:07 UTC »
How pissed would you be if you were a cast member or on the production staff?
Coffin__Varnish on May 29th, 2018 at 18:03 UTC »
What was the tweet in question?