Roseanne Barr was once “only” a stand-up comic—and she was a good one.
Alas, it seems being a good stand-up comic is a major risk factor for being, if you’ll pardon the insensitive expression, out of your damned mind. Sometimes it seems relatively innocuous. Frequently, it’s destructive. Roseanne is definitely in the latter category.
Recently you may have heard that she tweeted offensively, and ABC promptly canceled the revival of her popular sitcom. “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.
This has brought out the worst in people, from all parts of the political spectrum and on all sorts of issues, real and imagined. However, as David French points out, the first mistake was ABC’s, in reviving the show at all. It has been established for quite some time now that Roseanne is a lunatic, trafficking in 9/11 conspiracy theories, ranting about the Jews running the world, and what-not. Presumably ABC had its eyes open when they brought her show back, and decided it would be lucrative enough to be worth the risk. How’d that work out?
As far as Roseanne the show goes, I was never a big fan, and I never saw the revival. So this development causes me no heartache, other than the swelling disgust I feel at absolutely everything being turned into a political cudgel.
I think I’m turning into one of the reasonable ones.
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