ABC just canceled Roseanne for a racist tweet
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Tisk, tisk, tisk, making fun of someone's appearance is not kosher. Neither John Goodman nor Laurie Metcalf, both critically acclaimed actors, have no desire to continue the show without Roseanne.
Rodney Dangerfield didn't get along with Jerry Lewis, he disagreed with the Paris sensation that female comics weren't funny. Rodney toured with a number of female comics, most notably Roseanne and Marsha Warfield (Night Court). Roseanne even did double duty as his wife.
Huh?
This is the direct quote: " “I actually really like Sarah. I think she’s very resourceful. But she burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smokey eye. Like maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s lies. It’s probably lies.” "
I don't care what you think of Michelle Wolf, Sarah Huckabee Sanders or anyone else, that joke is not making fun of anyone's appearance.
Why do you want to believe that it does?
I never liker her or her old show and never saw the new one. Apparently it was popular but I bet that was just the first couple episodes. People probably were curious and knew about the Trumpian political stance which got a lot of hype. ANYWAY....GOOD RIDDANCE
Only if she's into pain and humiliation.Filippo, Hucka makes me weak at the knees, how about this as your sig pic?
Totally making fun of her weird, hanging eye.
Not that I give 2 shits though.
Cheers!!
Thanks for the quote. I could have sworn the joke was about Sarah's make up and not her actual features. I can't see how anyone with a modicum of intelligence would compare this with calling a someone an ape. How???
Good grief. Smokey eye is not the same as lazy eye or whatver it is you THINK it is. It's a make up technique!! The girl in your sig pic has it on.
https://www.google.com/search?q=smokey+eye&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-ab
Some of you Trump supporters need to really do research, engage your brains and stop relying on alt-facts that make you feel warm and fuzzy inside.
That is a cop-out bullshit excuse. You don't call black people Apes, TWICE on twitter, because you are Bi-Polar.
Except this was not on a stage, or any type of stand-up, and even if it was, this would not be considered comedy.
This is the sad part. 200 crew members are now out of work.
I am sorry Ardy, but what world do you live in? Where has it ever, like EVER, been acceptable and not seen as racist, to compare a black person to an ape???
I know! I am floored by this. I mean look at Ardy, a respected laywer on this board, reducing this to nasty and mean-spirited???? I don't know or understand where some people's heads are at.
LOL danmand is right.
Your reply reminds of an old union busting cartoon from the 80's. The union buster is getting his arm twisted by Koko Beware, he looks back to see that beware is about to tag in Andre the Giant.
In other words, I'd be less worried about Rosanne calling black people apes rather than the threats to President Obama's life courtesy of Donald Trump and Sarah Palin. They genuinely want to see Obama lynched.
He lives in a world of hierarchy and social strata that last existed in the gilded age (early 1900's) where the upper class were to be regarded as dignified and regal and the rest of us should know our place and never dare question their rank and privilege. In short, he lives in the past. He will always take the position that the titled and the upper class are better people.
He's not necessarily a "Make America Great Again" fellow because he's not a rabid red neck republican, but he does long for the long gone Anglo American upper class system of rank and titles.
His world is like that you see portrayed in James Cameron's film Titanic, or more satirically in any Monty Python "Upper Class Twit of the Year" sketches.
I would agree threats to someone's life would trump Rosanne's racism, but this thread is about Rosanne, not trump. Or at least should be.
Your comment make me laugh. "respected Lawyer" that is the ultimate oxymoron.
Hatred is hatred. Whether it's Rosanne's misguided twets or Sarah Palin indirectly calling for Obama's lynching during the 2008 Presidential election. Laurie Metcalf siad it herself, Rosanne makes poor decisions when she goes off her meds.
When she's on her meds, she makes smart decisions like hiring Whitney Cummings to be the show runner of the reboot. Again, I don't believe that Rosanne is an outright racist.
Not going to happen. Rosanne is the Executive Producer. There's not a chance they would kill her off and continue the series. She would continue to make money from every episode.
