Roseanne Barr slams ABC over Jimmy Kimmel, says he got 'hand slapped' while her life was 'ruined'

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Roseanne Barr isn't too happy with Jimmy Kimmel's slap-on-the-wrist suspension.

The 72-year-old comedian is ripping into ABC after the network hit pause on Kimmel’s late-night show, only to bring it back, while her own career was torpedoed back in 2018. Barr says the comparison makes it clear that she got the raw deal.

“I got my whole life ruined, no forgiveness and all of my work stolen and called a racist for time and eternity, for racially misgendering someone,” Barr lamented on NewsNation Tuesday, September 23. “It just shows how they think. It’s a double standard.”

Roseanne Barr says she's been 'erased from history'

Barr, who has long been vocal in her support of President Donald Trump, also took shots at Kimmel directly.

“I think he’ll cheer himself on and his fans, all what is it, 2,000 of them,” she quipped. “They’ll feel heartened and, you know, like they won another battle against Trump and the people of the United States.”

But Barr insists the fallout from her infamous 2018 tweets went way beyond losing a show.

“I’ve been erased from history, from the history of feminism, which that cracks me up,” she said. “I’m never mentioned in anything about women who are pioneers in media. I’m never mentioned in anything anymore.”

ABC pulled the plug on 'Roseanne' in May 2018 after she likened former Obama senior advisor Valerie Jarrett to the “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes.” That tweet sparked a backlash, forcing Barr to apologize.

“I apologize to Valerie Jarrett and to all Americans,” she posted at the time. “I am truly sorry for making a bad joke about her politics and her looks. I should have known better. Forgive me—my joke was in bad taste.”

She also claimed she thought Jarrett was white.

Not Roseanne Barr's first jab at ABC

This isn’t Barr’s first time airing grievances.

In 2023, she dragged ABC during her Fox Nation special, 'Roseanne Barr: Cancel This!,' claiming the network protected other stars like Kimmel and 'The View' host Joy Behar despite their controversies.

“I’ll tell you what, just put me on the ‘Jimmy Kimmel Show’ and on ‘The View’ and a lot of your other shows you’ve got on the ABC channel, you know, where people they’ve been in blackface and everything, I’ll go on there and surely, they’ll understand my mistake,” she cracked.

Kimmel has previously apologized for donning blackface to impersonate NBA star Karl Malone on 'The Man Show.' “There is nothing more important to me than your respect, and I apologize to those who were genuinely hurt or offended by the makeup I wore or the words I spoke,” he said.

Meawhile, Behar has denied ever wearing blackface in an old Halloween photo, insisting it was simply “an homage.”

What did Jimmy Kimmel say?

Kimmel’s recent trouble with ABC came after he went after Republicans on-air.

During the monologue that got him suspended, the 57-year-old cracked that the country had “hit some new lows over the weekend” when the “MAGA gang desperately tried to characterize this kid who killed Kirk as anything other than one of them.”

Kimmel claimed Republicans were looking to “score political points” from Kirk’s death. After showing a clip of Trump dodging a reporter’s question about the killing to instead brag about a White House ballroom, Kimmel joked the president mourned Kirk “the way a 4-year-old mourns a goldfish.”

Kirk, 31, was shot and killed during an appearance at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, where he was debating college students. Police later arrested 22-year-old Tyler Robinson after a 33-hour manhunt.

That said, over 400 celebrities signed an open letter blasting ABC’s suspension of Kimmel, warning that punishing him for free speech “strike[s] at the heart of what it means to live in a free country.”

Kimmel, who has hosted his late-night show since 2003, is currently in the final stretch of his ABC contract that expires in May 2026.

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