Roseanne Barr fiercely criticized the ‘double standard’ at ABC for reinstating Jimmy Kimmel, seven years after the network had terminated her from her iconic sitcom.

Last Wednesday, Jimmy Kimmel Live! faced an indefinite suspension following its host’s suggestion that the killer of Charlie Kirk may have been connected to the ‘MAGA gang,’ leading to the FCC chairman publicly threatening an investigation into the show.

The murder investigation revealed that the accused gunman, Tyler Robinson, held leftist views and allegedly informed his live-in transgender partner, Lance Twiggs, also known as Luna, through text that he shot the MAGA influencer because he ‘had enough of his hatred.’ Twiggs is cooperating with the authorities.

Kimmel’s suspension was met with an explosive outcry from Hollywood, and ABC backtracked, announcing this Monday that his show was coming back Tuesday.

Meanwhile Barr was booted from her Roseanne revival in 2018 for tweeting that former Obama official Valerie Jarrett, who is black, seemed as though the ‘muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby.’

Barr, 72, was roundly decried in showbiz, including by her own co-stars, and has been persona non grata in Hollywood ever since – a state of affairs quite different to the treatment applied to Kimmel, she noted to News Nation.

‘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. It just shows how they think. It’s a double standard,’ said Barr, a staunch Trump supporter.

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

People whom she helped break into showbiz now avoid discussing her, she said, ‘especially when they talk about censorship, which that cracks me up.’ 

Back in 2018, as a furious race row erupted over Barr’s joke about Valerie Jarrett, she deleted the tweet and blamed the post on Ambien.

She subsequently insisted she had no idea that the olive-skinned Jarrett was black, even screaming at one interviewer: ‘I thought the b**** was white!’

ABC chief Channing Dungey – who has gone on to work with the Obamas – jettisoned Barr from the network in response to the tweet, which drew vehement public condemnations from her co-stars like Sara Gilbert and Emma Kenney.

Kimmel himself used his monologue to blast Barr’s tweet as ‘indefensible,’ saying it did not ‘sit well with ABC management or anyone with a brain.’

In order for her show to be allowed to continue and her colleagues to keep their jobs, Barr was prevailed upon to give up her rights to the royalties, including those she would have earned from the original series.

The first version of Roseanne lasted nine seasons from 1988 to 1997, and has been widely hailed as one of the finest sitcoms ever created. 

Barr’s character was killed off of the reboot, which was then rebranded The Conners and staggered on for seven seasons before airing its finale this April.

She has since claimed she ‘was told’ that Dungey fired her at the behest of Michelle Obama, in an interview with the Sunday Times Magazine. 

Now Barr, whose revival of Roseanne was the highest-rated show on ABC before she was axed, has hit out at the network’s softer punishment of other talent.

She pointed to the temporary suspension of not only Kimmel but also Whoopi Goldberg, who spent two weeks off The View in 2022 for saying the Holocaust was not about ‘race’ because Nazis and Jews were ‘two white groups of people.’

Barr claimed ABC would protect ‘their lowest rated shows for their shareholders and destroy their highest rated shows for their shareholders.’ 

She also slammed Kimmel for intimating she was racist despite having done blackface himself on his old Comedy Central series The Man Show, for which he apologized in 2020 during the Black Lives Matter riots.

Although ABC brought Jimmy Kimmel Live! back on the air Tuesday, 70 of the network’s local affiliates did not broadcast the program.

Barr has now praised Nexstar for refusing to carry this Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! show on the 32 ABC affiliates it owns – a decision it announced earlier that day, following in the footsteps of fellow broadcaster Sinclair.

‘I just love independent media,’ said the sitcom icon, who now hosts The Roseanne Barr Podcast. ‘They’ve broken away from the big, you know, how can I say this? They decentralized information, and that’s what America wants and needs.’

A new documentary called Roseanne Is America came out this summer, revealing the final indignity ABC subjected her to after she was thrown off the Roseanne reboot. 

At some point during the run of The Connors, the network ‘called me and asked me if I would like to come back as a guest star. You’re coming back as a ghost.’

The famously mercurial comedienne erupted: ‘You’re asking me to come back to the show that you f***ing stole from me and killed my a**, and now you want me to show up because you got s*** f***ing ratings and play a ghost?’

Incensed by the request, the She-Devil star turned down the network by informing them: ‘I’m gonna be bowling that f***ing week.’