'Roseanne' Canceled After Tweet Comparing Obama Aide To Ape

"Roseanne," the popular 90s sitcom revived this year, has been 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.” 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. The tweet has since been deleted.

"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.

Even those affiliated with the show called out Barr. Sara Gilbert, who plays Darlene on the show, tweeted, "Roseanne’s recent comments about Valerie Jarrett, and so much more, are abhorrent and do not reflect the beliefs of our cast and crew or anyone associated with our show. I am disappointed in her actions to say the least." Wanda Sykes, a consulting producer on the show, said she would not be returning to 'Roseanne.'

Barr said on Tuesday that she is leaving Twitter.

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 "pizzagate" conspiracy theory and a conspiracy theory about Parkland survivor David Hogg giving a Nazi salute.

On Tuesday, Barr also apologized, sort of, to former first daughter Chelsea Clinton after calling her “Chelsea Soros Clinton” and claiming that she was married to a nephew of Democratic donor George Soros.

Clinton responded Monday, saying that her middle name is Victoria. “I imagine George Soros’s nephews are lovely people,” Clinton tweeted. “I’m just not married to one.”

After apologizing, Barr took another jab at Clinton.

“Sorry to have tweeted incorrect info about you!I Please forgive me! By the way, George Soros is a nazi who turned in his fellow Jews 2 be murdered in German concentration camps & stole their wealth-were you aware of that? But, we all make mistakes, right Chelsea?”

Soros was only 9 when World War II broke out and 14 when Nazi Germany surrendered in 1945, according to the fact-checking website Snopes.com, which called the claim that Soros served as an officer of the paramilitary SS “absurd.”

'Roseanne Recaps' on Patch

• Episode 3, "Roseanne Gets the Chair"
• Episode 4, "Eggs Over, Not Easy"
• Episode 5, "Darlene v. David"
• Episode 6, "No Country for Old Women"
• Episode 7, "Go Cubs"
• Episode 8, "Netflix & Pill"
• Episode 9, "Knee Deep" season finale

Patch will update this report.

Photo: Actors John Goodman and Roseanne Barr speak 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/Getty Images Entertainment

Beth Dalbey contributed to this report.