Roseanne Barr called former “Roseanne” co-star Michael Fishman a “brainwashed bigot” on Wednesday’s “Can’t Be Censored” podcast, after he said ABC was right to cancel the one-season 2018 revival following Barr’s comparison of Valerie Jarrett to an ape.
Fishman, who played D.J. Conner in the original sitcom and the revival, made his comments last month in an Instagram video responding to a viewer who said Barr had made “the usual jokes a comedian makes” and had been “backstabbed.” He called that view “ignorant and inaccurate,” saying there was “no joke.”
Barr also said on the podcast that she had finished a new series she described as a “modern-day fable.” She did not reveal its title or distribution plans.
