Roseanne Wants to Know Why She Can’t Come Back Too

Wait a minute, protested Roseanne Barr upon learning that Jimmy Kimmel was returning to ABC. If the network could forgive him for his alleged sins, why is she still out of a job?

Barr was fired from her rebooted ABC sitcom in 2018 for tweeting about Obama senior advisor Valerie Jarrett. The post — “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj” — was widely criticized as racist. She later blamed her words on Ambien, though the drug’s manufacturer released a statement saying, “Racism is not a known side effect of any Sanofi medication.”

“I got my whole life ruined, no forgiveness, all of my work stolen,” Barr complained yesterday on News Nation. “And called a racist for time and eternity for racially misgendering someone.” 

News Nation didn’t ask Barr what she meant by “racially misgendering,” a term that’s not quite an oxymoron, though it’s trying hard. 

Barr couldn’t understand why other comedians got temporary punishments while she got fired, “like when Whoopi Goldberg came out with those disgusting comments on the Holocaust. She got a, what, two-week suspension?” 

As for Kimmel? “Jimmy purposely lied,” Barr said, although she didn’t pinpoint particular untruths. “And you get your hands slapped six days for that. It just shows how they think. It’s a double standard.”

Barr predicted, rightly in some ways, that Kimmel wouldn’t apologize in his return. “I think he’ll cheer himself on,” she said. “And his fans — what is there, 2,000 of them? — will feel heartened, like they won another battle against Trump and the people of the United States.”

Don’t expect Barr to be among those cheering on Kimmel, who she said called her a racist “for some reason.” (See the second paragraph of this story for the reason.) 

“They understand racism in a way different way than I do, I suppose, as the left understands everything in a way different way than myself and 80 million voters,” she griped. “They are the arbiters of taste and racism. They have their own world, their own plan, their own agenda that I don’t quite understand.” 

After releasing a comedy special, Cancel This!, on Fox Nation in 2023, did the network offers start pouring back in? Nope, not even from Fox. Barr was written off “and erased from the history of feminism,” she explained. “I’m never mentioned in anything about women who are pioneers in media. I’m never mentioned in anything anymore. I’ve been socially erased.”

Barr doesn’t expect Kimmel to hear about this interview, isolated in his bubble that blocks out all opposing views. But she’s still tried to reach out, in her way. “I love to troll,” she admitted. “And so I trolled on Jimmy. I go, ‘Gee Jimmy, if you would have defended me, maybe this wouldn't have happened to you.’”