Roseanne Just Woke To Shocking News About Her Show After Anti-Trumper Took Over
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Roseanne Barr woke up to some interesting news about her show. As per reports, it appears as one of the two showrunners appears to be on the way out for the reason that many fans might enjoy! Roseanne currently has two people running the show, and the one who is more “politically correct” than the other is the one who’s leaving. Who are they? Bruce Helford and Whitney Cummings. Which one is leaving? That would be Cummings, a person some may have considered “anti-Trump” although she wrote the first episode in which Barr declared her proud support for President Donald Trump. Perhaps the “anti-Trump” thoughts that some fans might have come from her job of being politically correct, a concept many Americans would enjoy doing away with.
Cummings, the more politically correct showrunner, was most likely the one telling cast or staff members “you can’t say that now” whenever they tried to get in a funny word that would nowadays be slammed as controversial or politically incorrect. Regardless of how humorous a word or saying was, if it was insensitive and yanked from the show, then chances are it was Cummings who pulled it. Will the show include more eye-popping humor? People aren’t quite sure, but some fans feel as though the weight of political correctness may have been lifted from their backs as Cummings exits the show. That, of course, is to be seen as the Roseanne show prepares for next season, which is the 11th overall.
The Hollywood Reporter details how they found out Cummings was leaving: “During a Friday morning conference call with reporters, executive producer Bruce Helford revealed that Whitney Cummings — who served alongside him as co-showrunner — will not be returning for season 11.
“I think Whitney is going to be too busy,” Helford told The Hollywood Reporter during the call. “Whitney is always a member of the family of the show but she’s got so much going on. I don’t know how she had time to work on the show in the first place. I don’t think she’ll be able to join us in the capacity she was joining us in this first season.”
“Working on Roseanne was a surreal, incredible experience,” Cummings wrote Friday in a social media post. “Due to work commitments and my tour schedule, I’m gonna have to watch the Conners from the sidelines next season. It was an honor to work with such an incredibly talented group of actors, writers and crew. Harvey Levin, you can stop calling my cell phone now.”
During a Hollywood Reporter roundtable with the Roseanne stars and exec producers, Cummings said she “became the PC police” during the revival.
“I was the ‘you can’t say that anymore’ and ‘now this is the word we use’ one,” said Cummings, who was still in grade school when Roseanne originally bowed. “And they were like, ‘Yeah, but that’s not how people in this town at this age in this income bracket talk.’ And I learned, it’s not about what we would say, it’s about what they would say.”
Set to return for season 11 — which will bow in the fall and be back for 13 episodes — are Wanda Sykes and Norm MacDonald, among other writers. Helford also noted that the multicamera comedy would be bringing in new voices to expand the inclusivity of the room. Joining the writing staff are queer author, writer and comedian Ali Liebegott (Amazon’s Transparent); Emily Wilson (AP Bio); comedian Jena Friedman — who has written for The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and Late Show With David Letterman and whose stand-up set on Conan impressed star Roseanne Barr; and Ted Jessup (Family Guy). Dave Caplan (who worked with Helford on Anger Management and The Drew Carey Show) and Bruce Rasmussen (Claws, The Middle, The Drew Carey Show) have also been promoted to exec producer. Barr, as she did during the original run, serves as head writer.
“We have a lot of new voices, younger voices, which I think is important on the show,” Helford said. “I’ll be showrunning next season. We run a democratic room, almost nobody has a stronger voice than anybody else; everybody’s input is there. I’m excited because there are a lot of new voices and because I believe we’ve got the best of the voices who have been part of it continuing.”