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ABC announced they were taking the hit sitcom reboot off the air shortly after Roseanne Barr, one of their biggest starts, apologized for going on a racist Twitter rant about former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett. Read more on this story…

Sara talks about Roseanne smoking pot, executive producing the show, working with the whole cast again after all these years, and she reveals how she juggles shooting 'Roseanne' and 'The Talk' simultaneously. Rudy Giuliani is Very Confused https://youtu.be/vPj0qzPiMhA SUBSCRIBE to…

In contrast to situation comedies that tend to focus on physical comedy and farcical situations - like Seinfeld (1989-1998) and 30 Rock (2006-2013) - domestic comedies focus on family life and interpersonal problems that are ultimately resolved through talking. Originally, domestic comedy was a middle-class genre. Roseanne (1988-1997) was different. These shows normalise images of middle-class comfort, making them appear to be reflective of wider America. Roseanne, with its relentless focus on financial hardship, is in many ways a response to these recent representations of American family life. These early domestic comedies celebrated the nuclear family - all white, middle class, with professional fathers and stay-at-home mothers - and the simple pleasures of home life. This worldview was also evident in the few working class shows that made it to television in the middle of the 20th century. From the outset, Roseanne cast itself in opposition to the idealised portrait of family life that still dominated American TV. Darlene has lost her job and has had to returned home with her two children. However, Roseanne has always been socially progressive in its storylines about the struggles of “little people” against the system.

She's spent recent years promoting a messy brand of politics, propagating transphobic and Islamophobic rhetoric on Twitter and fully embracing Donald Trump's MAGA message while promoting right-wing conspiracy theories. It's a confusing devolution into a radical lunatic—something closer to Alex Jones than the socialist, pro-union, and anti-one percent character she played in the '90s. There's Roseanne Barr and then there's Roseanne Conner. There are some similarities and plenty of differences. Her influence will be there no matter what—even if it's just in her performance as the show's star. Helford also tells The Hollywood Reporter that there's no agenda or intention to make a TV show about politics—even though that's what it has been so far: We never set out to be a show about politics. We set out to be a show about the Conners and how the current political climate affects the family. The idea is to present all sides of the dialogue. We're talking about the effects of all the politics on the lives of people like the Conners. Maybe it'll never mention politics going forward—but Barr's bizarre shift in personal ideology is still hanging over every episode.