Roseanne Barr, 70, has shocked her former fans again after some confusing comments about the Holocaust during a recent podcast appearance.
“This Past Weekend” host Theo Von might have found himself lost in Barr’s byzantine bit about “bulls–t” surrounding the 2020 election, as the comic commented on different concepts and perceptions of “truth” in America and how social media platforms can limit discussion of different topics.
“Like for the real truth that, you know, and I’m glad that they did set up all these guidelines so that we only are allowed to speak the truth,” Barr said — with alleged sarcasm — during the podcast. “And the truth is that Biden got 81 million votes by winning 36 counties. And that is just incredible. It really, really is.”
Barr later continued, “And that is the truth. And nobody died in the Holocaust, either. That’s the truth. It should happen. Six million Jews should die right now ’cause they cause all the problems in the world. But it never happened. But it never happened — mandated.”
Barr then noted that she herself is “100%” Jewish — no sarcasm implied.
The Post reached out to reps for Barr and Von for comment.
In a statement to The Post on Tuesday, Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, said Barr’s comments were “Nazism in its purest form.”
“Put simply, Roseanne Barr’s open and grotesque Holocaust denial is Nazism in its purest form, and a singular embodiment of the alarming rise of Jew-hatred in America that goes far beyond trafficking in conspiracy theories. Further, Mr. Von’s defense of Ms. Barr’s hatefully ignorant comments as being satirical is equally offensive,” Lauder stated.
He also called on both Apple Music and Spotify to remove the episode: “I am calling on both Apple Music and Spotify to remove this content from their streaming libraries immediately, for as long as his hateful voice is carried on their platforms, they are in league with those who wish harm to Jews the world over.”
On Tuesday, Barr’s son Jake Pentland defended his mom in a statement to TMZ.
“We are embarrassed that people are stupid enough not to recognize Roseanne is being sarcastic,” he told the outlet.
Pentland continued, “We think it’s funny that people are so stupid. Let’s stop doing this clickbait s–t, we need to focus on big problems in America. Focusing on out-of-context clips is what morons do.”
Von also defended Barr, sharing the podcast clip on Twitter.
“Here is the full clip of Roseanne Barr obviously using sarcasm and satire,” he wrote. “She is a mensch and one of the funniest people I’ve ever met.”
Barr is no stranger to controversy: In 2018, the revival of her show, “Roseanne,” was canceled by ABC after a racist tweet in which she compared former President Barack Obama’s adviser Valerie Jarrett to the offspring of the “Muslim brotherhood & Planet of the Apes.”
According to Salon, she alleged that she thought that Jarrett was white, and that others interpreted the meaning of her tweet in the wrong way.
BuzzFeed also reported that Barr once deleted a tweet that accused Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg of giving a “Nazi salute.”
She later claimed that the image she had originally seen had been “doctored” and that he wasn’t giving the Nazi salute.
However, in February, Barr appeared on Fox for an interview with Tucker Carlson, where she said that cancel culture was “fascist.”
“I was just blackballed,” she said, per Salon. “Just totally canceled from even commenting on what happened.”
“So I thought, well, stand-up is a great place to come back and say what happened and tell the truth about it, and also to talk about cancel culture itself and how horrible it is and how fascist.”
Barr returned to comedy this past winter in a special called “Roseanne Barr: Cancel This!” on Fox Nation.
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