Comedian Rosanne Barr went absolutely wild on “classist” liberals for hating “working people.”
During her appearance on “The Megyn Kelly Show,” Barr talked about her demise in from the television industry, which came in 2018, when ABC axed her eponymous show “Rosanne,” after she made a racist post about former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett.
The tweet, which she deleted and apologized for, said that Jarrett, who is black, was what happened when the Muslim Brotherhood met “Planet of the Apes.”
“They killed my character,” Barr complained. “They took my life’s work. You think somebody gets over that?”
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“Oh, it’s okay she wrote that off her blood, sweat and tears for 20 years on the comedy stages,” she added. “Having s**t thrown at her head because people don’t like funny women or whatever.”
Barr told Kelly that despite what she said in the infamous tweet, she was actually the one on the set who was championing black characters.
“[I] always fought the good fight,” Barr insisted. “Always broke every rule on TV that tried to make people feel shame and who they were, or to try to divide the races and they always hated that.”
The cancelled comedian said it was “always a fight” with Disney to hire black writers and actors.
“They fought me till the end and when I want to have a black granddaughter you cannot imagine the fight they put me through,” she noted.
In that specific instance, Barr said she had to police the writers room after what they wrote for the character.
“Their ideas on race are so obsolete and they’re just racist,” she alleged. “I mean, they’re classist as hell, they hate working people.”
Kelly then asked Barr about her reaction to comments made by Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, who recently mentioned that “black kids” in the Bronx were unaware what “a computer” is.
“These people who are lecturing everybody about race all the time didn’t see anything wrong with what she said,” Kelly commented.
“Because they don’t know any black people,” Barr shot back. “The only black people they know are in their circle. And those black people they probably don’t know any working-class type black people, or middle-class black people, probably not at all either.”
Barr said that Democrat politicians “just live in a bubble of very privileged wealthy people” who have the same kind of financial status and share the “same donors.”
“They don’t care about the American people, obviously,” she added, noting that liberals would “like to replace us all.”
“They don’t like the American workers because we want like — I say ‘we’ but sometimes I still feel like I’m the mom of it all, because I am in a lot of ways,” Barr concluded. “And I’m not going to let them take that from me, they’d love to but they can go f**k [themselves].”
Hochul got major backlash from fellow Democrats following the remarks and said that she had “misspoke” and regretted the remarks.
Meanwhile, fellow comedian Jerry Seinfeld bemoaned that the “extreme left” has taken the joy out of comedy.
In an appearance on New Yorker’s Radio Hour, Seinfeld claimed that people yearn for the laughter and release that true comedy brings, which he says has decreased significantly due to the uptick of woke culture.
“Nothing really affects comedy. People always need it. They need it so badly and they don’t get it,” he said while promoting his new Netflix movie, “Unfrosted.”
“It used to be that you’d go home at the end of the day, most people would go, ‘Oh, Cheers is on. Oh, M.A.S.H. is on. Oh, Mary Tyler Moore is on, All in the Family is on,’” he recalled of the television comedies of yesteryear. “You just expected [there will] be some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight.”
“Well, guess what? Where is it? Where is it? This is the result of the extreme left and P.C. crap and people worrying so much about offending other people,” he noted.
Seinfeld claimed that stand-up comedy only flourishes because comedians enjoy freedom on stage, as opposed to Hollywood, which bogs down comedy with too much oversight.
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“Now they’re going to see stand-up comics because they are not policed by anyone,” he said, pointing out that the members of the audience are the ones to “police” comics.
“We know when we’re off track. We know instantly. And we adjust to it instantly,” Seinfeld continued.
“But when you write a script, and it goes into four or five different hands, committees, groups – ‘Here’s our thought about this joke’ – well, that’s the end of your comedy,” he commented about Hollywood.
“With certain comedians now, people are having fun with them stepping over the line, and us all laughing about it,” Seinfeld concluded.
“But again, it’s the stand-ups that really have the freedom to do it because no one else gets the blame if it doesn’t go down well. He or she can take all the blame [themselves.]”