What Roseanne said was not funny.Perhaps we need to preface today’s entire Daily with “Not The Onion.” First up, we find out that a CIA report says North Korea won’t denuclearize, but might open a burger joint (14,000+ shares), as Courtney Kube, Ken Dilanian and Carol Lee report for NBC News. “As long as they make us laugh, it’s easy to forgive.
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“A lot of comics say terrible things,” Harbert said. Ancier said ABC probably had a plan in place for that eventuality, given how quickly the show was erased from network websites. He probably would have made the same decision ABC made, he said.īoth former executives praised ABC for moving swiftly when presented with Barr’s tweet. If he were in Dungey’s position when the rebooted “Roseanne” was being considered - mindful that his job is to produce hits, or it won’t be his job much longer - Harbert said he probably would have taken several meetings with Barr to figure out how she was doing. “She blows up her own life and that of all those around her.” “How do you stop someone who does something like this in the middle of the night?” he said. Social media complicates the efforts of networks to keep stars working and things running smoothly, he said. She has the temperament, and the tendency to go to dark places, that fuels many artists, he said. “This is a person who, left to her own devices, is not totally in control,” Harbert said. Barr was his headache then he recalled having to go to her home where she was holed up with Tom Arnold for a few weeks and refusing to work in 1994, and coax her out.
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He was ABC’s top programming executive during the first run of “Roseanne” in the 1990s. Ted Harbert knows better than most what Dungey and her boss, Ben Sherwood, went through. “I think it was a reasonable bet to take, and it worked until it didn’t,” Ancier said. “I tend to be pretty forgiving to people who feel they can get a good show out there and keep the star in check, and you usually can, because a lot of stars can be problematic,” said Garth Ancier, a veteran television executive who ran entertainment programming at Fox, NBC and the WB networks. The rebooted “Roseanne,” where Barr played a Trump supporter, worked beyond anyone’s dreams - logging 25 million viewers for its premiere in March and settling in as television’s second most popular comedy after “The Big Bang Theory.” Her social media past includes a racist tweet about former national security adviser Susan Rice and support for conspiracy theories like “pizzagate.” On the same night as her Jarrett tweet, she posted a false claim about Chelsea Clinton that Clinton refuted. Questionable actions date back to a cringe-worthy, crotch-grabbing rendition of the national anthem in 1990 a claim, later recanted, that she was an incest survivor and the 2009 picture reprinted on the Daily News. Yet many saw a disturbing pattern being followed instead of a joke. “One stupid joke in a lifetime of fighting 4 civil rights 4 all minorities, against networks, studios, at the expense of my nervous system/family/wealth will NEVER be taken from me.” “I’m not a racist, I never was & I never will be,” she wrote Wednesday. She apologized to those who had lost their jobs because of her action, but also condemned cast members who threw her under the bus, in her words.
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On social media, Barr wrote that what she said was indefensible, then retweeted several statements others made supporting her.
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