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Roseanne Barr is mounting a comeback attempt, five years after she was unceremoniously fired over a tweet joking that former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett — who is Black — was the offspring of the Muslim Brotherhood and “The Planet of the Apes” after the return of her eponymous sitcom “Roseanne” broke ratings records.

After her firing, “Roseanne” was cancelled and then revived as “The Conners”, with her character killed off by an opioid overdose.

Now, Barr is returning to the standup comedy stage for “Roseanne Barr: Cancel This!,” a new special that will stream Monday, Feb. 13 on Fox Nation, the Fox News streaming service, in which she takes on Hollywood’s “cancel culture,” among other topics.

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Roseanne Barr has called out what she thinks is the sexist double standard of cancel culture and addressed ABC for firing her from her own sitcom reboot “Roseanne” before rebranding it as “The Conners.”

“It was a witch-burning,” Barr said of the fallout in a new interview with The Los Angeles Times. “They denied me the right to apologize. Oh my God, they just hated me so badly. I had never known that they hated me like that. They hate me because I have talent, because I have an opinion. Even though ‘Roseanne’ became [ABC’s] No. 1 show, they’d rather not have a No. 1 show.”

Barr continued, “When they killed my character off, that was a message to me – knowing that I’m mentally ill or have mental health issues – that they did want me to commit suicide.”

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This just in: Roseanne Barr is not a fan of The Conners.

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, the disgraced sitcom star — whose new standup special, Roseanne Barr: Cancel This!, premieres Monday on Fox Nation (watch a teaser here) — had coarse words for the ABC spinoff, which was launched in the wake of the Roseanne revival’s abrupt 2018 cancellation. Barr specifically took issue with her former colleagues, both onscreen and off, over the decision to kill off her character in the offshoot’s opening episode.

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Almost five years after ABC canceled her comedy following her tirade of racist and anti-semitic tweets, Roseanne Barr is returning with the stand-up special Roseanne Barr: Cancel This!, premiering Monday on Fox Nation.

The special debuts the same day on the streaming service as a documentary on her career, Who Is Roseanne Barr?

Barr lost her television show, Roseanne, in May 2018. One of the tweets she posted that day called former President Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett an offspring of the “Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes.”

Barr followed up with an apology but it was too late: ABC canned her hours later.

Barr comes across as sanguine about the experience, which she blamed on taking the drug Ambien. She told the Los Angeles Times, “I’ve survived. I’ve come out on the other side of it, finally. But it was a witch-burning. And it was terrifying. It was.

Roseanne Barr is doubling down against progressive parenting by encouraging parents to stick to the basics when it comes to discipline in “Roseanne Barr: Cancel This!” which premieres Feb. 13 on Fox Nation.

In an exclusive clip shared with TheWrap, Barr makes her return to stand-up comedy by recalling how her brother and sister, who are both gay, married and have raised children, take a too-lenient approach to parenting – unlike Barr herself.

“They’re progressive parents, though, and I can’t stand that,” Barr says in the clip. “It don’t make any sense, you know, the way they just let their kids get away with s—. They just – like a rubber band, stretch it to the end, you know? My sister, she never quite puts the hammer down on her [daughters].”

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