WATCH: Roseanne says ‘we can’t let them kill comedy,’ talks new stand-up special
Julia Johnson
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Roseanne Barr’s Cancel This! stand-up special premiered on Fox Nation on Monday, and she’s vowing to protect comedy from cancellation.
“We have to be more offensive when we come back because we can’t be beaten down. We can’t let them kill comedy,” she told Ainsley Earhardt on Fox & Friends.
“We can’t let these people who are censors and book burners have the last say over comedy. We have to protect comedy,” she continued.
Barr was “canceled” in 2018 after writing a tweet about former senior adviser to President Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett.
In the tweet, Barr said that if the “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.”
Her rebooted sitcom Roseanne was then canceled, and Barr did not appear in new projects for several years.
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“I got to explain myself, which I never got to do before,” she told Earhardt of her new special.
“It’s the last free speech art form. It’s the major free speech art form, and it’s where you can — it’s the last place you can get up and say what you want to say to the people who want to hear it and to all have a laugh together because laughter is just a great, powerful release for people who, you know, want that release,” Barr said.
“And we need to do that right now, I think, because everything’s so ridiculous. It’s hard to write a joke now since everything’s so absurd and ridiculous,” she added.
Barr recalled thinking, “I’m afraid to say anything in this climate” prior to making her return.
“But then I’m like, ‘Hell, I’m 70 years old. When am I going to get another chance to get out there and say, “Hey guys, we got to fight against this censorship and this crazy stuff that is anti-American”?'”
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“Because America is the last place where, you know, I always say an old Jewish woman with a big mouth like me is allowed to say this stuff, and I’m not going to let them take it away from us without, you know, objection,” she concluded.
Barr’s widely anticipated comedy return is available on Fox Nation for streaming.