Roseanne Barr has been under fire in recent times due to her comments denying the Holocaust on an episode of Theo Von’s podcast. Her son, however, says that his mother’s comments were taken out of context and that her words were sarcastic.
The viral clip from This Past Weekend podcast had a lot of people on social media coming for Barr and calling her antisemitic. Aside from the comedian’s son, Jake Pentland, podcast host Theo is also defending Barr on social media over the viral clip.
Jake and Theo insist that Barr’s comments were sarcastic
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In the clip, Barr speaks on the Holocaust, saying, “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.” Barr also added that she is Jewish and comments on how people believe false news, with reference to the 2020 elections being fixed.
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In response to the backlash his mother received, Jake told TMZ that they “are embarrassed that people are stupid enough not to recognize Roseanne is being sarcastic.” Von also affirmed Jake on social media, asking if people could not recognize sarcasm anymore. “This Roseanne Barr clip was sarcasm folks. A clip taken out of a long sarcastic rant she had during our chat,” Von wrote on Twitter, quoting the controversial clip.
Mother and son will be addressing the issue on their podcast
Jake announced that he and Barr will be addressing the controversial issue on the Thursday episode of the podcast they co-host, The Roseanne Barr Podcast. The 45-year-old further added in the interview with TMZ that anyone who listened to the full podcast would realize Barr was being sarcastic.
“We think it’s funny that people are so stupid. Let’s stop doing this clickbait s***, we need to focus on big problems in America. Focusing on out-of-context clips is what morons do,” he said.