While Wanda Sykes certainly has the pick of the comedy litter, it doesn't mean that she's put money or her net worth ahead of her morals. In 2018, Sykes was hired as a consultant on the revival of the hit 1980s show, "Roseanne," starring Roseanne Barr. Since the original show went off the air, Barr had become a rather polarizing figure in political media, and the revival — as Sykes saw it — presented an opportunity to show two sides of the political coin. But after Barr took to Twitter with racist messaging about a former Obama administration official, Sykes promptly quit her role as a consulting producer, telling The Guardian that she was saddened by Barr's tweet, but not shocked.
To make matters worse, Barr blamed Sykes' departure for the revival's eventual cancellation — that's enough to make anyone bitter, but Sykes revealed that she viewed Barr with compassion. "[There are] some mental issues — she's said so herself — and I think for anyone with mental issues, social media is not the place you should be," Sykes said. "I was telling my producing partner: 'We have to get her off social media, this is nuts.'"
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