Roseanne Barr under fire for new Holocaust remark ahead of fall Florida shows
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Controversial comedian Roseanne Barr recently announced new shows in Florida this fall and she's again coming under fire for her comments.
Barr, speaking on This Past Weekend with host Theo Von who's also a standup comedian and actor, said "nobody died in the Holocaust."
She made the remarks about 1 hour and 15 minutes into the 2½-hour podcast that's on YouTube.
"There's such a thing as the truth and facts and we have to stick to it," Barr said. "And nobody died in the Holocaust either. That's the truth. It should happen. Six million Jews should die right now because they cause all the problems in the world."
Barr, 70, went on to say, "I'm all Jewish, 100 percent."
She went on to suggest Jewish people have substantial influence on the entertainment industry.
The remarks drew criticism from the Anti-Defamation League.
"Sarcasm or not, Roseanne Barr’s comments about Jews and the Holocaust are reprehensible and irresponsible," ADL's CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said in a Tweet on Tuesday. "This isn’t funny. And shame on (podcast host) Theo Von for letting it go unchallenged and instead diving into conspiracy theories about Jews and Hollywood."
Roseanne Barr has Florida shows in October
In the past week, Barr announced three shows in Florida this fall: Oct. 7 at Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall in Fort Myers; Oct. 13 at the King Center for the Performing Arts in Melbourne; and Oct. 21 at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater. Tickets for the shows go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday.
Barr in the 1980s and '90s co-starred on the TV sitcom "Roseanne" about a working-class family in a fictional town in Illinois. The show was a big hit especially in its early years of 1989 and 1990.
In 2018, she co-starred in "Roseanne" reboot but executive canceled it after Barr’s controversial tweet about Valerie Jarrett, a Black woman who was a senior adviser to Barack Obama throughout his presidency.
The tweet compared Jarrett to the offspring of the “Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes." She later apologized for the tweet but Channing Dungey, ABC entertainment president, said in a statement: “Roseanne’s Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values.”
Dave Osborn is the regional features editor of the Naples Daily News and News-Press. Follow him on Instagram @lacrossewriter and on Twitter @NDN_dosborn.
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