Roseanne Standup Show At National Harbor Canceled

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD — The fallout from a tweet by comedian and actress Roseanne Barr that has been widely condemned as racist has resulted in the cancelation of her upcoming appearance at MGM National Harbor. While the Oct. 12 show at the resort's theater is the only event listed on her website, ticket sites say the show is canceled.

A search of the National Harbor website still brings up Barr's appearance there with the option to buy a ticket. But when you click on the purchase link, you're taken to Ticketmaster, where the seller has posted a message that says the event has been canceled.

Refunds for the National Harbor show will be made at the point of purchase only, Ticketmaster says. Online and phone orders will automatically be canceled and the ticket prices refunded to customers.

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"Roseanne," the popular 90s sitcom revived this year, was canceled after a tweet from Roseanne Barr in which she compared former Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett to an ape. Barr has apologized for comparing Jarrett to an "ape," calling it "a bad joke about her politics and her looks." She later said she made the tweet while under the influence of the sleeping aid Ambien, which drew a rebuke from the drug's maker.

The now-deleted tweet in which Barr said the "Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj" caused a huge blowback on social media.

"Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with out values, and we have decided to cancel her show," ABC Entertainment said in a statement.

Bob Iger, chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company, said in a tweet accompanying the ABC Entertainment statement that, "There was only one thing to do here, and that was the right thing."

Barr's apology was to Jarrett, but also to "all Americans." Barr said she "should have known better — my joke was in bad taste." Many of those criticizing Barr called on the ABC television network to cut its ties with Barr, who recently rebooted her 1990s sitcom "Roseanne," which finished the season last week as the highest-rated and most-watched series of the broadcast season.

Many praised ABC for canceling the show. Even before Barr's statement on Tuesday, her tweets had long been problematic and included advancing right wing conspiracy theories. Mother Jones senior reporter Shane Bauer documented Barr's past tweets, where she promoted the debunked DC "pizzagate" conspiracy theory and a conspiracy theory about Parkland survivor David Hogg giving a Nazi salute.

PHOTO: Actress and comedian Roseanne Barr poses for photos during SiriusXM's Town Hall with the cast of Roseanne on March 27, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for SiriusXM)