Roseanne Barr will have been a trend-setter in the sitcom world, but she misplaced the plot when she became in reality outspoken about controversial things.
Remember her groin grabbing and spitting following her less-than-inspiring rendition of the National Anthem at a baseball game in 1990? Or that time she got 70,000 votes in the 2012 Presidential Election under the leftist Peace and Freedom Party? Or, more not too long ago, when she changed into an outspoken Trump supporter and made a tweet that many consider having been racist that were given the Roseanne revival canceled and her fired. When they rebooted Roseanne with The Conners, they killed her off the show.
Yeah, Barr hasn't in point of fact performed the rest to lend a hand her occupation in recent years, but she does have some support from some not likely other people. Whitney Cummings, certainly one of Roseanne's ex- showrunners, is not a kind of other folks... and neither is Chuck Lorre.
But what really happened between Barr and Cummings?
Cummings Quit 'Roseanne' Weeks Before It Was Cancelled
After the Roseanne revival in 2018, the show was renewed for the 11th season. However, its co-showrunner, Cummings, was not going to be a part of it.
"Working on Roseanne was a surreal, incredible experience," Cummings wrote in her social media publish announcing her exit. "Due to work commitments and my tour schedule, I’m gonna have to watch the Conners from the sidelines next season. It was an honor to work with such an incredibly talented group of actors, writers, and crew. Harvey Levin, you can stop calling my cell phone now."
There have been deeper conflicts at play, even though. During a Hollywood Reporter roundtable, Cummings mentioned she "became the PC police" right through her time running on the revival.
"I was the 'you can’t say that anymore' and 'now this is the word we use' one," she said. "And they were like, 'Yeah, but that’s not how people in this town at this age in this income bracket talk.' And I learned, it’s not about what we would say, it’s about what they would say."
She Left Because Of Barr's Tweets
Then, Barr posted her racist tweet, and the Thirteen episodes in the upcoming 11th season have been canceled. Cummings spoke about why she really left on The Daily Beast's The Last Laugh podcast a 12 months later.
When asked how she become the showrunner for the revival, Cummings joked with a sly smile, "I just am a fan of her tweets. I just think she makes some great points. That’s going to be quoted out of context, I can see it now!"
"It made a lot of sense at the time," the comedian stated about her preliminary decision to be the showrunner. She principally left the show because of Barr's tweets. "I wanted her to get off Twitter. I felt like it was going to come to a head. It was like whack-a-mole."
Knowing many of us would not imagine her, Cummings admitted she had no concept about Barr's Twitter historical past when she took on the activity. When the revival was canceled, Cummings attempted to stick out of the drama, but when a TMZ reporter requested her if she wanted to look Barr’s personality killed off, she made a remark she's no longer pleased with.
"I don’t even want to think about it," Cummings informed the reporter. "Killing her would mean I’d have to think about her, and I don’t even want to do that right now. I’m too pissed off."
"That was a nightmare," she explained to The Daily Beast. "I was pissed. We all worked really hard on that show, and it’s just a shame. You put your heart and soul into something for 12 months, and it’s just for nothing.
"I grew up staring at Roseanne, I liked it. I grew up poor, and that was once the first show that appeared like my space. It was once the first display that didn’t make me feel bad about myself."
Taking on the job, especially after Trump was elected, was very intriguing to Cummings.
"There’s this massive disconnect between Hollywood writers and America," she said. "And there’s this concept among some Hollywood writers that America’s silly. What I cherished about Roseanne, it used to be at all times, just because we’re deficient doesn’t mean that we’re silly. And I have members of the family that are deficient who reside in red states, and I believe a large number of people weren’t feeling seen or heard."
The writers on the show were hardly right-wingers. The writer's room included comedy legends Norm MacDonald and Wanda Sykes. As for her "PC police" comments a year earlier, Cummings said, "It was once more that we just really needed to be cautious in terms of depicting how this family and those characters would actually communicate and in truth behave. And if we had been going to be offensive, it was for the right reasons and on function."
Ultimately, they had to "get it proper, so we understand how the characters get it wrong." Cummings added that the revival "had the possible to be actually healing and start attention-grabbing conversations." Unfortunately, that didn't happen.
Cummings said she thought it was a good idea they canceled Roseanne. "It’s only a disgrace. I’m still too stunned and puzzled to even know what to even think. It’s simply wildly unfortunate."
As far as we know, Cummings and Barr haven't had any contact since. Ironically though, during her time working on Roseanne, Cummings was once called down to HR after telling an intern, "Merry Christmas."
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