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American comedian, writer, actress and voice artist
ABC removed Roseanne Barr from the 2018 revival after she posted a tweet that likened Valerie Jarrett, a former Obama adviser, to an ape; the network called the remark “abhorrent, repugnant and incons...
The tweet that triggered ’s 2018 firing read, in her exact posted form, “ & planet of the apes had a baby=vj,” a reference to that many read as likening Jarrett to an ape and invoking a . The post—wid...
ABC canceled the Roseanne reboot on May 29, 2018 after star and co-creator Roseanne Barr posted a tweet that compared former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett to the “Planet of the Apes” and referenced th...