- Roseanne Barr appeared in a live taping of a podcast in New York City and on Fox News' "Hannity" Thursday night.
- The actress discussed the Valerie Jarrett tweet which resulted in the cancellation of ABC's "Roseanne" revival.
- Barr also opened up about the forthcoming spin-off show, which she will not be a part of.
She says she has "mixed emotions" about it. - Barr isn't sure if it will succeed without her.
- "It is going to be interesting to see a bunch of really privileged people who grew up in Hollywood writing for the working class," said Barr.
Roseanne Barr spoke out about her ABC series carrying on without her for the first time Thursday night.
"Well, I have mixed emotions and I go up and down with it. Sometimes I’m good with it sometimes I’m not; I’m human," Barr said in a live taping of her friend Rabbi Shmuley Boteach's podcast at the New York Comedy Club, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "I try to think positively and to afford even those who slander me, I try to treat them with human dignity, despite what they do to me. I’m sorry that it wasn’t important enough for [ABC] to call me and ask me what I meant [with the tweet]."
"Roseanne" was promptly canceled in May after Barr likened former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett to an ape on Twitter.
"Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show," ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey said in a statement.
The next month, ABC announced a 10-episode "Roseanne" spin-off without Barr, tentatively called "The Conners," will premiere in the fall. Stars John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, and Sara Gilbert are among the original cast to return. The show will premiere October 16.
Can the show live on without her?
"Well it is going to be interesting to see a bunch of really privileged people who grew up in Hollywood writing for the working class," Barr said during the live podcast taping.
During its time on TV, the "Roseanne" revival was a ratings winner. More than 27 million viewers tuned in to the series' premiere after accounting for delayed viewer ratings. According to Nielsen, the series received an average of 23.2 million viewers. The next largest broadcast show, "The Big Bang Theory," received 18.7 million average viewers this year.
Thursday evening during her first TV appearance following the Jarrett tweet on Fox News' "Hannity," Barr discussed what made viewers tune into "Roseanne" week after week and acknowledged that she knew how big the show was for ABC.
"I tell more jokes about myself than I do anybody else, because, to me, comedy is very personal. That's what makes it funny," Barr said on "Hannity." "That's what made people like the 'Roseanne' show because they saw themselves in it or had an aunt, or their mom, or their sister. Somebody in their family was a loud, outspoken woman who loved her family and that was what I was so excited about to come back to television was to show that family is also multiracial and lives next door to Muslims whose ideas they don't agree with. That was what I brought to television and what kicked everybody's a-- in the ratings. And they [ABC] should be so lucky that they'll ever get anywhere near that. And they can't take that away from me, no matter what happened."
You can watch a portion of her interview with "Hannity" below:
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