Posted on 05/29/2018 10:26:06 AM PDT by EdnaMode
As the outcry swells over Roseanne Barr’s vile tweet about former Barack Obama aide Valerie Jarrett, Wanda Sykes tweeted today that she is leaving ABC’s Roseanne revival, on which she served as a writer and consulting producer.
Wanda Sykes✔ @iamwandasykes I will not be returning to @RoseanneOnABC. 12:04 PM - May 29, 2018
Sykes was one of the key writers on the revival and had been set to return for Season 2. She also appears on ABC’s hit comedy Black-ish, is producing the upcoming Throw Mama from the Game Show and hosted the GLAAD Media Awards last month.
The Roseanne star has apologized to Jarrett for tweeting what she said was “a joke” about her, but reaction has been swift and merciless. We’re waiting for ABC to weigh in on the controversy surrounding Barr tweeting that Obama’s former advisor looks like “Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes had a baby.”
Whitney Cummings said this month that she is won’t be returning to the Roseanne revival as executive producer/co-showrunner, which she called a “surreal, incredible experience.” Bruce Helford is taking over her roles for next season, which will be the sitcom’s 11th overall.
How is Roseanne’s tweet racially charged?
Valerie Jarrett isn’t even black.
“...Obama’s former advisor looks like “Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes had a baby.”
I’m sorry Roseanne apologized and fled twitter.
She’s probably finished now.
She does look like partially melted plastic or wax. Or like one of those reptile people.
uuhhhh.....okay.
nah jarret is white- rosseanne will be fine likely- just have to ride out the faux outrage wave for awhile- the perpetually outraged liberals will be ranting and raving about something else in a day or two anyways- just give it time
Yikes...missed it. Thx
ABC cancelled the show.
“She’s probably finished now.”
Not a fan of the show, but I hope she’s not gone. Yeah, she should’ve hung in there. Tim Allen did, and it worked for him (eventually).
You’d think, but they just announced the cancellation of the show on Rush.
I think Sykes is/was just a writer. Not sure.
'I hope Rush’s kidneys fail'
--"comedian" Wanda Sykes
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Wanda Sykes: “I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? ... He needs a good waterboarding, that’s what he needs.”
Obama joined the crowd in laughing at the crack about Limbaugh’s “kidneys”....”:
seriously? Guess ABC doesn’t like success
Another angry commie homosexual. *yawn*
Never
The media has been stunned at at the success of Rosanne’s show and are terrified that it will become a rally point for Trump supporters
Stars of other shows have been far more derogatory and said much worse things about Donald Trump, his Administration officials and his supporters and they have been lionized and their shows confirmed for multiple seasons
Very bad optics here and big mistake on the networks part and the backlash is going to be a problem for them
Rush announced a few minutes ago that ABC has already canceled the Rosanne revival show over the tweet about Valjar.
Communist cowards at ABC.
ABC already canceled it according to Rush. It was their #1 rated show and they canceled it over a silly joke.
Wanda Sykes is a racist.
If Roseanne Barr had said the exact same thing about Ben Carson that she said about Valerie Jarrett, not only would her show still be on the air, ti would have been renewed for another two seasons already — and every “woke” “progressive” would be fervently defending her. No question about it.
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