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The discussion centers on fired comedians and Roseanne. Speaker 0 says, “these are my jokes,” then, “Because she's the one that got me fired. You know? Michelle? Yeah. She's the one that called ABC and said I had to go Are you serious?” The exchange notes, “Racist tweet. Yeah. Really?” and, “Michelle Obama. She said it. It's gotta true.” He adds, “Bob Iger, who fired me, said his first phone call was to Valerie Jarrett to apologize to her, and that Michelle Obama also got on the phone with them, and that Obama called him afterward to thank him for firing me. So that's in the paper.” “Iger's many interviews where he talked about it.” On Roseanne, “the biggest story of the day today was Roseanne,” and “ABC decided to cancel their highest rated show, Roseanne, following… a tweet… to an ape.” ABC calls it “abhorrent, repugnant, and inconsistent with our values, and we've decided to cancel her show.” Barr speaks of being fired as a “witch burning,” notes The Connors killed her character, saying, “they killed my character… 28,000,000 viewers.”