YouTube Yanks Controversial Roseanne Barr Podcast Where She Tells Theo Von “Nobody Died in the Holocaust”

Roseanne Barr is back in hot water after making an offensive joke about the Holocaust while appearing on a podcast episode earlier this week. Since then, YouTube removed the podcast video, citing a “violation” of the platform’s “hate speech” policy.

On the June 14 episode of comedian Theo Von’s This Past Weekend podcast, a now twice-canceled Barr discussed the enforcement of disinformation policies on platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. For example, she said you can’t speculate that the 2020 election was “rigged” without being “de-platformed.”

“That’s all a lie. The election was not rigged. Thirty-six counties can give you 81 million votes. That’s a fact,” she explained. “And don’t you dare say anything against it. You’ll be off YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and all the other ones because we have, you know, there’s such a thing as the truth and facts and we have to stick to it.”

YouTube has since retracted its ban on “content that advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past U.S. Presidential elections,” per Variety, a decision the platform announced earlier this month.

The actress, who said she’s “100%” Jewish on Von’s podcast, then took to making a terrible and antisemitic joke about the Holocaust.

“And nobody died in the Holocaust, either, that’s the truth,” Barr sarcastically added. “It should happen — 6 million Jews should die right now, because they cause all the problems in the world. But it never happened.”

This Roseanne Barr clip was sarcasm folks. A clip taken out of a long sarcastic rant she had during our chat. Can we not recognize sarcasm anymore? https://t.co/jIeDcHwlal

— Theo Von (@TheoVon) June 27, 2023

Elsewhere in the interview, Barr — whose revival of Roseanne was canceled in 2018 after she posted a racist tweet — claimed people “should be glad” that Jews “control” Hollywood because if they didn’t, then “all you’d have was fucking fishing shows.”

After the clip was predictably met with widespread backlash, Von came to Barr’s defense on Twitter, where he wrote, “This Roseanne Barr clip was sarcasm folks. A clip taken out of a long sarcastic rant she had during our chat. Can we not recognize sarcasm anymore?”

Meanwhile, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt tweeted, “Sarcasm or not, Roseanne Barr’s comments about Jews and the Holocaust are reprehensible and irresponsible. This isn’t funny. And shame on Theo Von for letting it go unchallenged and instead diving into conspiracy theories about Jews and Hollywood.”

While the video was “removed for violating YouTube’s policy on hate speech,” the podcast episode remains available to stream on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Barr is no stranger to controversy; the comedian got her show yanked by ABC in 2018 after she tweeted that Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to Barack Obama, was a product of the “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes.” In a GLAAD report published one year later, the organization found that Barr had made 27 pages of anti-trans comments online. Since then, she has recorded a stand-up special for FOX and repeatedly criticized ABC and her former co-stars on The Conners, alleging the show wanted her to “commit suicide” when they killed off her character.

Decider reached out to Barr’s reps for comment but did not hear back by the time of publication.

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