Comedian Wanda Sykes, the consulting producer of the “Roseanne” reboot, said Tuesday she will not be returning to the show after its star, Roseanne Barr, made derogatory comments about former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett and others.
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Barr tweeted that Jarrett was the product of the Muslim Brotherhood and “Planet of the Apes” late Monday. She also attacked former first daughter Chelsea Clinton and liberal billionaire George Soros.
“I will not be returning to @RoseanneOnABC,” Sykes tweeted. She later clarified, in response to a Daily Beast tweet calling her a head writer of the sitcom, that she was a consulting producer.
I will not be returning to @RoseanneOnABC.
— Wanda Sykes (@iamwandasykes) May 29, 2018
Fake News…I was never the head writer. I was a “Consulting Producer.” https://t.co/9aqb4fP3dl
— Wanda Sykes (@iamwandasykes) May 29, 2018
Barr apologized for her crude comments about Jarrett and Clinton amid intense backlash from a number of public figures, and said she would be quitting Twitter.
