Bill Maher shared his take on his ‘friend’ Roseanne Barr\u2019s racist tweets that caused ABC to cancel her revived series, Roseanne.<\/b>
\nChiming in. Bill Maher shared his take on his \u201cfriend\u201d Roseanne Barr \u2019s racist tweets that caused ABC to cancel her revived series, Roseanne. The Real Time with Bill Maher host addressed the ordeal on Friday, June 1, and joked that although he\u2019s still friends with Barr, 65, he thinks a part of her is \u201cquite a racist.\u201d
\u201cIt was a tough week for the line. You know, the line that comedians sometimes cross. Half the country wants Roseanne to go away forever, half the country wants Samantha Bee to go away forever. So much for wanting more females voices in television,\u201d Maher, 62, joked on the show.
\u201cRoseanne will always be my friend but her world came crashing down this week. A series of tweets she put out on Tuesday that were just so full of racism, conspiracy theories and personal attacks, were described as \u2018abhorrent bordering on presidential,\u2019\u201d the HBO personality quipped. \u201cMy friend Roseanne admitted that she had been admitted to a mental institution. She had said she has multiple personalities and unfortunately, one of them is quite a racist.\u201d
The late-night host continued: \u201cBut it\u2019s also not a mystery to me how a person with a mental illness can be taken in by a party that has lost its mind.\u201d
The Roseanne reboot was canceled by ABC on Tuesday, May 29, after Barr tweeted about former Obama key advisor Valerie Jarrett, describing her as if\u201cMuslim brotherhood and Planet of the Apes had a baby.\u201d
Maher was brought into the situation by people on social media saying he should also be fired for making jokes against President Donald Trump in the past. \u201cThe snowflakes on the right \u2014 and yes, there are plenty on the right, too \u2014 tried to drag me into this, saying I should be fired because I compared Trump to an orangutan,\u201d Maher said. \u201cObviously, this is another day where we have to\u2026 explain jokes to idiots.\u201d
\u201cHere\u2019s why that\u2019s a dumb analogy,\u201d he added. \u201cLet\u2019s look at four key facts: 1) Trump is an orangutan 2) White people have not been subjected to a racist trope comparing them to apes for hundreds of years 3) My offering Trump $5 million to produce his birth certificate in 2013 to prove he was not half an ape\u2026 was itself a response to his birtherism, racist bulls\u2014t and 4) I\u2019ve already been fired by ABC.\u201d
Hours after Barr\u2019s tweets, President of ABC Entertainment Channing Dungey released a statement announcing that the network was pulling the plug on season 2 of the show. \u201cRoseanne\u2019s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show,\u201d the statement read at the time.<\/p>\n

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