John Goodman Says He Hasn't Spoken to Roseanne Barr in '7 or 8 Years'

The revival's planned 11th season was canceled after Barr, who played the titular matriarch of the working-class Conner family, sent a tweet likening Valerie Jarrett, a former advisor to President Barack Obama, to an ape.

"Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show," President of ABC Entertainment Channing Dungey said in a statement at the time.

Shortly after the cancellation, ABC ordered a spinoff titled The Conners with Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, Sara Gilbert and more reprising their characters from Roseanne. Barr's character was killed off due to an opioid overdose.

The Conners aired for seven seasons from 2018 to 2025.

"It's really hard," Goodman, who played the patriarch of the family, Dan Conner, told PEOPLE during a set visit. "It's something I'm going to miss for a while. I'm old and resistant to change."

He admitted that the last seven seasons of the spinoff have gone by "so fast," adding, "It was so exciting when we got this together and it seems like it was two weeks ago."

Goodman also shared why he thinks the show — and Roseanne before it — connected so deeply with American audiences across the years.

He said it was because of its "focus on just kind of a normal family that's really been up against it. And a lot of people in this country have been up against it for a long time."

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I liked FAT John Goodman

I don’t like THIN John Goodman

She blames everybody but herself.

"She blames everybody but herself."

It's the MAGAt way.

Jesus, if she did that today they’d give her a medal.

R3 I’m with you. He was a tad gruesome on Gemstones even when he was CGI de-aged. Some people look better a tad heavier. Not necessarily 400 lbs but not looking like a basset hound.

I just can't believe that Trump has appointed her to something yet. A cabinet position, an ambassadorship or to head a major governmental office.

He probably will make her national Director of his rumored American media control agency

I really liked Roseanne, till she fucking went Politically Apeshit...sh'e too far gone. Although, Sara Gilbert, is really the Eve in this Story!

Michael Fishman has tweeted a few times that he is completely disillusioned by her. He never says her by name but it’s so obvious.

R8, she'll be a great Secretary of State when little Marco is thrown to the curb.

How can the rest of America enjoy this privilege?

It probably pissed the cast off that she jeopardized the show because she could t handle herself on twitter

[quote] she'll be a great Secretary of State when little Marco is thrown to the curb.

the curb? How about the alligators.

I loved her during the years between Roseanne and The Connors when she was in that perfect sweet spot of crazypants before it turned dark--like in her guest spots on Portlandia and The Office.

I feel like Jeff Goldblum has managed to straddle that line for an exceptionally long time.

He stayed loyal to her even after she trashed him out. He was doing a play on NYC and I think the times did a write up on him and quoted Tom Arnold in the piece and identified as one of Goodmans closest friends. Arnold and the writer said nothing about Roseanne but she went nuts when she saw Arnold was acknowledging as Goodmans close friend and started talking about his drug and alcohol problems on Roseanne and what an awful person he was.

Despite this Goodman never spoke ill of Roseanne and even shot a pilot with her that didn’t get picked up.

….and for reasons well known to her.

She hates Sara Gilbert with a passion and blames her for everything, but Channing Dungey was the one who fired Roseanne after the remarks. There was no way she couldn’t speak out or comment about Roseanne’s tweets.

ABC knew what they were getting when they hired Roseanne.

The both had such good chemistry on Roseanne. The first five seasons (only) of that show were so good. Goodman and Laurie Metcalf were very good actors, and Roseanne quickly became one after the first few episodes. I hate sitcoms in general but this one was well-written, well-acted, and genuinely funny, in the same league as The Mary Tyler Moore Show and the Shelley Long seasons of Cheers. Not surprised he has good memories of it.

Roseanne was very talented. Now it seems like her brain has rotted.

She was R10. She was ready for it. COMPLETELY READY to just take over. If Roseanne was acting that crazy in public, she must have been like completely insane in private. Sara probably had been talking with the producers and other people at the network. No one stuck up for Roseanne. They all were earning like 4 to 6 million a year and Roseanne was willing to destroy that? FUCK ROSEANNE. They didn't badmouth her, but they didn't stick up for her.

Roseanne was forgotten and the rest of the show all went on doing a job that's basically a license to print money, that they not only LOVE, but that only requires them to work 4 to 5 months of the year. Damn straight no one stuck up for her.

And they all know if she hadn't been fired, Roseanne would have continued until she was fired. FUCK HER. She did this to herself.

Even Trump knows she's crazy and R8, that's why Trump isn't giving her any type of role, job, position.

R21, you are so right. I can sit down and if Roseanne show comes on, I'd watch it and really, really enjoy it. And I don't like sitcoms.

When Roseann went off the air the first time & went into syndication, I used to get off work and watch 2 episodes every night for a year or two.

Since they’re morphing into aged Cary Grant and Mae West respectively, perhaps they’ll connect and reunite in a new project someday soon? 😵‍💫

Roseanne's Still Nuts! This fall on ABC!

Roseannes problem with Sara Gilbert is like Kathy griffin being angry at Anderson Cooper. Nobody is required to give up their job to stand with them when they do stupid things. They don't get that.

Roseanne literally gave up profits and the ownership so hundreds wouldn't lose their jobs due to her drunk tweets.i I initially thought that was thoughtful and mature of her. don't get why she's angry now that the show continued.

The crazy thing is growing up my mother was a fundie and wouldn't let me watch Roseanne because of its liberal, worldly message. Now my Mom is MAGA and her and Roseanne couldn't be more similar. Funny how the world works.

Of all the MAGA "celebrities" - Roseanne Barr is the most crazy of all of them. I'm not surprised if Goodman doesn't have a relationship with her. It would be impossible because she is far gone. I think she needs supervision at all times to protect herself and others from harm. I've listened to some of the things she claims and she's really unwell.

But anyone who was around from her beginning "Domestic Goddess" routine will remember the crazy was always there, it just manifested itself in different ways over the years. Didn't she do past life regression? Didn't she find out she had repressed memories of being molested that other family members deny? Didn't she go to a nuthouse for a while? Didn't she lock up one of her kids in a nut house too? I remember the kid saying they weren't really crazy but that some nurse informed her she'd probably wouldn't get out because her health insurance from her mom was too good and paid for everything. The most stable thing about Roseanne is her instability.

She needs to be locked up R30.

“Did you have one too many FROZEN MOCHA FRAPPUCINOS?”

R30 Yes, she claimed that bot of her parents had committed incest. She later retracted it saying that she lost touch with reality due to strong psychotropic drugs she was prescribed. Probably not strong enough psych meds! One of the problems with these types of accusations is that they never go away even if retracted or proven false. It's like the Duke lacrosse rape hoax, those guys lives were permanently damaged no matter what.

She believes an evil cabal are eating babies and drinking their blood.

She looks like a real bitch too who got the face she deserves. She's hideous to look at and she's certifiably insane.

"They're full on vampires. They love the taste of human flesh and they drink human blood".

Goodman would look a lot better if he ditched the Lady Clairol.

Sara and Tom Werner are who brought Roseanne back in 2917-18. She executive produced it. I don’t doubt she had a hand in firing Roseanne, and I also think The Conners was always a backup show in case Roseanne herself went off the rails. It wasn’t a question of if, but when.

[quote]He stayed loyal to her even after she trashed him out. He was doing a play on NYC and I think the times did a write up on him and quoted Tom Arnold in the piece and identified as one of Goodmans closest friends. Arnold and the writer said nothing about Roseanne but she went nuts when she saw Arnold was acknowledging as Goodmans close friend and started talking about his drug and alcohol problems on Roseanne and what an awful person he was.

I don't remember how or why I came across this years ago, and It's since been deleted from her website, but here's the rant from 2009:

"laurie did not want to do the show if I was fired, which they tried to do. John went along with her, after he thought it might make him look bad not to. John hated tom arnold, and would huff and puff and leave the set whenever tom came down there. I just read in the ny times that they are best friends now. Both of them were huge addicts and I got caught in the middle of that. I used to look up goodman's nose in the scenes we did together and see white powder all over in there. I tried to call everyone who could help john try to get off dope and booze. He hated me for that. he use to throw parties at his house each weekend and invite everyone on the show but me. I was very hurt at the fact that I wrote his part and his lines for him and he never appreciated the work I did for him at all. He used to come in and scream at the little kids and drink til he fell over, and expect me to cover it all up for him, which I did. I was used to doing that, living with a drunk drug addict like tom arnold. I just tried to do the show and write the stories that I wanted to do on tv, despite the horrible stress and pain that both tom and john caused me every single day on the set. I was relieved when goodman left the show, and couldn't wait to kill his character off, so that I never had to be forced to work with him ever again. Beside tom, I have never met a more horrible person than john goodman. He is lucky that he is such a great actor or I would have fired or killed him. He never said anything nice or complimentary to any other actor. He put his drunk fist through a wall over michael fishman's head when michael was just six years old. I threatened him that I would go to the press more than once, and like all addicts, including his now best buddy tom, that scared him. they do not want the truth about themselves ever to be told. the truth is that john was an ******* like no other *******, and I just looked the other way as he bad mouthed me the show, the writing, and tom arnold daily. If I had to do it all over again, I would have picked someone else to play dan connor. someone who was more of a decent human being, and maybe less of a talented actor.

"John tried to apologize to me later, drunk at a benefit, telling me he made a mistake during the last few seasons of the show by hanging around with speilberg and big directors that he thought would be more beneficial to him than coming to work on the show. He asked me to consider writing another part for him and me. I said "get sober first", as he was sweating and falling over while he tried to flatter me. It is just perfect that he is now tom arnold's best friend, absolutely perfect in the scheme of soulless hollywood ******* users and vampires. I called speilberg when john was doing the flintstones and said "You need to help John before he drops dead like belushi did". Steven promised me that he would try, and john continued to deny that he did coke or that he drank during tapings all the way to the end. He would stand there sweating and staggering and we had to cut his lines to one or two sentences during season 8-9. I remember once he said he couldn't come to work because he was doing a shakespeare play in san diego instead. i went to see him, and could tell he was drunk as a mother****er in that too. I felt sorry for him, but pissed off at the way drunks and addicts wipe their asses with people who care about them. To this day, he has never apologized to me or anyone else who went out of their way to help him make millions. When i read that he and tom are the best of buddies now, I just thought "**** them both, for the misery and the contempt they showed me and everyone else on the roseanne show." I almost killed John for the way he treated Michael, who was just a baby. I have to say here that there were days when John would come to set and do these impromptu sketches that were unbelievably funny and left me and the cast gasping for air, and laying on the floor howling. He was as hilarious and brilliantly funny as he was difficult and mean. every single hollywood expo about me is bull****. None of them ever discuss the drug addict husband who was busy selling stories about me for drug money to the tabloids, or the drug addict co star who put me through hell every day on the set, talking loudly about what a ***** my then husband was. Tom used to say john was using, and john used to say tom was a talentless golddigger, who was getting movie parts that should have gone to him. both of them hated each other, and when tom would be on the show john would leave the set and hold court in his dressing room with my crew who he liked to entertain and drink and drug with. both tom and john constantly ran to me to rat the other one out, and I had to handle that and do the show, plus try to keep everyone else happy at the same time. All I got for that was called a diva and a bitch. I hate hollywood *******s!

"I never told anyone any of this, because I learned that Hollywood is a boy's club where no boys are ever held responsible for anything that they do, but all women who are creative are destroyed like a witchburning. (unless you are black, and then you are stolen from and destroyed even if male).

"I am lucky i didn't die of heart failure or stress during the show. But, I didn't and I am still here happy to tell the truth of the bull**** and carnage that I lived through, and the *******s who enriched themselves at my expense. They wouldn't so much as piss on me if I was on fire. Do I care about any of it now? No, I honesly do not in the least. I survived them all. I have rid myself of *******s. I find that the most talented people in the world are gentle and ethical. I am glad i lived to find that out.

"I am thankful that I was able to hang onto even a small percentage of the money that I 'made', and that I am sitting in the sacred kingdom of hawaii because of it with my partner johnny who makes me happy everyday, and my ethical decent children and grandchildren, none of who even consider going into show biz, as they value goodness and integrity instead."

I wonder how much of what Roseanne says of Goodman's drinking and drug use is true?

John has emitted to drinking on set during Roseanne.

And it was clear in the early seasons that sometimes he was coked out of his mind. (I’ve had my own skirmishes for coke usage so know the signs.)

Why would anyone who claims to be a reasonably intelligent adult SPEAK to Roseanne.

Though it should be noted, Monique swears that Roseanne is loyal and a good friend and was the only one who came thru for her during her soft “black listing”. And Monique is def not MAGA. She woke as fuck.

Can’t find it but there was a blog post back in the day from an actress who worked as Roseanne’s stand-in for a while until they fired her.

She captured the misery of the experience. First, she was often standing in because Roseanne didn’t bother coming to set… like she out shopping or whatever. Then when Roseanne would return, the stand-in would have to give her all her marks (that was part of the job) and of course Roseanne was resentful to be receiving direction from a nobody so that was delightful.

She also said John would come to set and when he’d discover the stand-in there instead of Roseanne, he would flip out and take it out of her. (He was pissed because he and Roseanne needed to rehearse together.)

So his behavior could be bad but it seemed like Roseanne was at the core of all the rottenness on that set.

Because Roseanne’s traumatic brain injury happened so young, we’ll never truly know—was she actually born a cunt or bred that way.

[QUOTE] Goodman would look a lot better if he ditched the Lady Clairol.

The only thing that could make Goodman look better is weight gain. And not necessarily fat. He lost weight but forgot the exercise part. If he’d do some resistance training and build up his chest, shoulders and back he wouldn’t look nearly as bad. Instead he lost all of his muscle with the fat.

What made Dan so imposing wasn’t just the fat but the muscle underneath it, he was built like a football player. He prob didn’t workout much but it’s easier to maintain muscle when you’re young. I know he’s older now, but Goodman could’ve kept a lot of muscle if he was willing to get a personal trainer and work hard for it. Lord knows he has the time and money.

Her brain injury caused her personality to change dramatically and she was institutionalized for months afterwards. Maybe she had underlying mental illness to begin with, exacerbated by the TBI. I have a little bit of empathy for her, because she got dealt a crappy hand as a teenager, and her TV show was great before everything went off the rails. And even though she was always rather unstable, she didn't go full blown right wing kook until Trump came along. But I still don't care to see or hear from her any more.

Roseanne’s feud with TV showrunner Ken Levine says a lot about her.

It’s a shame, he defended her after she was fired and she signed away the rights to Roseanne so the crew could keep working.

[quote]Michael Fishman has tweeted a few times that he is completely disillusioned by her. He never says her by name but it’s so obvious.

He's not overly thrilled with Sara Gilbert either. He was treatly badly by The Conners (he wasn't even invited back for the finale) but has kept things pretty muted on the experience.

Two things can be true. Roseanne is a batshit crazy MAGA, but Sara definitely saw her firing as a moment to position herself front and center on the show. And the show suffered as a result.

(Adult) Darlene was not a leading lady. The character had none of the magic from the teen years.

[quote] Michael Fishman has tweeted a few times that he is completely disillusioned by her.

This is what I cannot reconcile yet. It's not that Roseanne suddenly turned evil. She was evil already during most of Roseanne's initial run. So why was he surprised now? Goodman, too, made it sound like the initial run was just a party with lots of fun. Maybe for him. Maybe for the other co-stars. But it was hell for everybody else. And not secretly. The abuse of the staff was well publicized and obvious for everyone. To me all this reads like: "I had a great time because she was only evil to others."

Unlike a lot of shows (Murphy Brown, Mad About You) this show actually could have been a really good reboot but I think Sara Gilbert’s ego and the network’s virtue signaling ruined it. Everyone knew/ knows Roseanne is batshit crazy. She frankly should either never have been re-employed or have been non-cancellable by that point - she said many worse things than that post that lead to her firing. The show really did not work without her. (It could kind of been fun if they kept her as a voiceover judging character from the after life, though.)

It would seem that Roseanne’s nuttiness did not extend to the child actors in the original.

I like his aged look. He'd play a good president or politician

John Goodman 69ing with Meghan Mullally on the Righteous Gemstones was about as much as I could take.

Mennen

Big River

[quote] John has emitted to drinking

Oh fucking dear, R41.

He looks hot at R57. What happened?

Age and gravity, r59.

R43 Here's the blog from the former stand in

Leading black rights activists were calling for her firing. CNN devoted 48 hours of coverage to her tweets. Spike Lee led over 100 black creatives in calling for roseannes dismissal.

Sara Gilbert and Goodman wouldn't have been able to save roseannes job even if they tried. The decision to fire her came from the very top brass at ABC.

Roseanne thought it was still the 90s where having a hit show meant she could get away with anything. We live in. A different world now.

She should have been fired and I hate PC behavior. Is this bitch out her motherfucking mind. Calling Valerie Jarrett a great ape and then gon lie and say didn’t she know Valerie was black. The lie made the original remarks even more offensive. Her fat ass thought she was gon play in the faces of black America and ABC executives like it’s nothing. And I actually think Roseanne is an immensely talented sitcom star that can bring the funny but also dramatic chops. You talk that shit, you better have your own production company and your own studio because no network is going to let you ruin their brand with1920s racism rhetoric. The show probably would have still maintained its ratings without a hiccup. It’s the boycott of the companies advertised during the show that would be a problem as well as just a general PR nightmare of extremity of the remarks and her lack of apology.

[quote] The show probably would have still maintained its ratings without a hiccup. It’s the boycott of the companies advertised during the show that would be a problem as well as just a general PR nightmare of extremity of the remarks and her lack of apology

If I had some ham I’d have a ham sandwich if I had some bread.

[quote]She should have been fired and I hate PC behavior.

I find it odd when people boast about "hating PC behavior." So you prefer injustice and bigotry to be tolerated without repercussions?

R65 No I don’t rock with that shit but I’m way open minded and not easily offended. Like say a comedian in standup act, says a poorly executed joke that doesn’t come across as funny and is offensive. I wouldn’t want he or she to be canceled. But this walrus looking ass bitch took her fat twitter fingers with her million followers and intentionally disparaged an entire group of people, even after being warned about her behavior from previous but minor incidents. And then the bitch gon pretend she didn’t even the know the sista she insulted was black. If Bye Felicia was fat A list Frau. During the Sanjaya era of America Idol, this hog gon tweet he is one the greatest performers of all time, could sing better than Beyonce, only his hair was real. Shit was lowkey funny though. However you aren’t going to disrespect an accomplished, educated black person with sheer ignorance reminiscent of Jim Crow rhetoric. Fat neck ass ho.

Valerie Jarrett was on the view and could have passed for joy behars sister. Maybe Roseanne really thought she was white?

Didn’t she also refer to Jarrett as a terrorist because Jarrett was born in Iran? Jarrett’s dad was a doctor and part of a medical exchange program with Iranian doctors.

[quote]Roseannes problem with Sara Gilbert is like Kathy griffin being angry at Anderson Cooper. Nobody is required to give up their job to stand with them when they do stupid things. They don't get that.

That's true, but this is different. They (Sara & the network) went behind Roseann's back. They already came up with a plan to go forward, without Rosanne, before they fired Rosanne. And it did include Sara taking over Roseanne's place. She became a writer & a producer on the show. She stepped right into Roseanne's shoes. I don't blame Roseanne for feeling hurt by Sara. It's all Roseanne's fault. But it still has to hurt

So r3, you don't like or appreciate a person who tries to improve their health, when so many don't want to or can't?

R5 And wokes never blame anyone for anything. They are always mature, wholesome and sane people who always take responsibility for their actions.

You lost me at "wokes," R71.

Can't he just count his blessings and shut up about them?

[quote] Can't he just count his blessings and shut up about them?

But then you wouldn't have the opportunity to waste a pointless comment on this thread.

The reason he talks about Roseanne is because reporters keep asking him about her...to stir up the pot. He always keeps his comments short, and he has never publicly criticized her.

Several weeks after Roseanne's firing, a reporter asked John Goodman if Roseanne was racist, and he replied that no, Roseanne's not racist. (In the 90s, their show did an episode where Roseanne had to ask herself if she was subconsciously racist and teaching her son to be racist.)

Earlier this year (or late last year), Roseanne was interviewed by Megyn Kelly. Megyn asked if any of Roseanne's former costars had given her any support. Roseanne referenced John Goodman's brief interview statement that Roseanne isn't racist. She said she wished he had stood up and said that when she was getting torn apart on social media and was in the process of being fired. She said that no one else had said anything supportive about her or to her.

The original show was feminist, pro-gay/lesbian (even supportive of marriage), anti-racist, and dismissive of organized religion. But people on both sides watched it because it was funny as hell. I don't know why Roseanne grew to align herself politically with people who are against all those things. It happens to a lot of people as they age, though.

Even if Roseanne hadn't made that tweet and hadn't been fired for it, how long do we think she would have lasted on the reboot?

In the reboot pilot, apparently she had it in her contract, that she was allowed to say "Thank God for Donald Trump". One of the main storylines of the first season was about Darlene's son possibly being trans, and the character of Roseanne was supportive of him.

I felt like the writing on the new show was horrible.

In Season 1, Becky wants to sell her eggs, and she's told that her eggs are too old. Then a couple of years later, she has an accidental whoopsie pregnancy (in her mid-40s, with expired eggs!) from a one-night stand, with an undocumented immigrant no less. It seemed like a long-winded way to work in a storyline about forced deportation.

But I think maybe the show got a lot of complaints about that storyline from viewers who were struggling with infertility. Because suddenly, Darlene, who had never talked about wanting more kids before, wants to have a baby RIGHT NOW. Even though she and her husband, both in their mid 40s) don't have their own home, and they live in Darlene's Dad's overcrowded house, where her son Mark lives in an alcove because he doesn't have his own bedroom. And she's always worrying aloud that she can't buy Mark the school supplies that he needs to succeed in school. Then she's crushed when a doctor tells her she can't have any more kids.

Many storylines didn't make sense. Darlene has a perfect man, and she cheats on him multiple times? Becky had a personality change from the original series. Worst of all, they fired DJ after refusing to give him storylines. Bizarrely, they kept the actress who played his daughter after dumping him. Then she disappeared too after a few episodes. I think that if Roseanne had been on the show, she would have campaigned against them dumping Michael Fishman, who had always been loyal to the show.

The show tried too hard to be politically correct that it felt like an after-school special for adults. The storylines were too depressing, and there wasn't enough humor (like in the original show) to balance out the gloom. It just wasn't funny.

In Joan Collins' biography, she talked about guest starring in an episode of Roseanne in the early 90s. She said the writers seemed on edge and terrified at Roseanne's wrath. According to Joan, at a table read, Roseanne told the writers, "this is shit" and made them rewrite the episode. Would she behave the same way if the reboot went on longer, since the was the title star of the show, even though Sara was "in charge". Or would she eventually have bitched out Sara and the writers, or would she just have read her lines, collected her check, and gone home?

I think she would've just read her lines and collected the check. She's old, tired and in much different times. Network tv was on life support. Saying you're beating Mom in the ratings doesn't quite hold the bragging rights as Cheers. Plus, she wouldn't get better rewrites. What passes as comedy today is embarrassing. The talent pool isn't there.

The Conners was an insult to the brilliance of the original Roseanne. I think Roseanne is a bit crazy but I understand why she's mad at Sara, Laurie and John.

The casting on the original show was something you could have an 8 part thread about that. Bonnie Bramlett, Muriel Hemingway, Eddie and Patsy, Ellen, Bob Hope

No one with an ounce of not only class but also dignity should speak to Roseanne after this:

Bitch literally said, “why they tryna turn Becky into Dan” 😂

Rep 74 is QUITE a bargain:

She's not only possessed by Rhoda Penmark from "The Bad Seed" but she's also got Joy Smythe (Shirley Temple vehicle "Bright Eye") in there too!

R30- She sounds like the other DL fav

Lens Dunham

John Goodman hasn't spoken to Roseanne Barr in 8 years. 8 glorious years.

There was that 7 year itch but I thought it over.