FROM FOX NEWS: Roseanne Barr is not holding back.
During a recent interview, the comedian called out the television industry’s hypocrisy, especially after late-night host Jimmy Kimmel made his return to his show.
“It just shows how they think. I got my whole life ruined, no forgiveness, all of my work stolen and called a racist for time and eternity for racially misgendering someone,” Barr said on NewsNation. “It’s a double standard.”
Her comments come just as “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” returned to ABC, days after the host was suspended over his comments on conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
In 2018, Barr tweeted about former Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, saying Jarrett, who is Black, looked like the “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby.”
The comment triggered an immediate backlash. Bar apologized and deleted the post, but ABC cancelled her show reboot, “Roseanne.”
Channing Dungey, ABC Entertainment’s president at the time, said, “Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show.”
Barr said Kimmel “called me a racist even though I said repeatedly, which they repeatedly censored, that it was a mistake,” Barr told the outlet. “I thought that the woman was a white woman from Iran.”
“He called me a racist even though he himself appeared in blackface on their network many times,” she said, referring to Kimmel’s controversial comedy past.
Fans of Jimmy Kimmel will “feel heartened, like they won another battle against Trump,” comedian Roseanne Barr told “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” about the late-night host’s return to the airwaves after being suspended for six days.
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— NewsNation (@NewsNation) September 24, 2025
“I’m so sick and tired of this noise,” says @stephenasmith of comedian Roseanne Barr’s comments about Jimmy Kimmel’s return to TV. “The standard is the standard, and we’re all aware of it.” #CUOMO pic.twitter.com/rv2Lyz298S
— NewsNation (@NewsNation) September 24, 2025
Roseanne Barr is slamming Jimmy Kimmel’s return to air as the result of a ‘double standard,’ saying she’s been ‘called a racist for time and eternity for racially misgendering someone.’ https://t.co/GrAjEqL0d2
— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) September 24, 2025
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