Update with video Bill Maher summed it up. “It’s been a tough week for the line,” the host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher said at the top of tonight’s show, then explained which line he meant: “The one that comedians sometimes cross.” 
 
 “Roseanne will always be a friend of mine,” Maher said about the now ex-sitcom star before launching into a monologue stuffed with jokes (some really good ones) about her. 
 
 Her tweets, he said, “have been described as abhorrent bordering on presidential,” and that Barr “has said she has multiple personalities – and unfortunately one of them is quite a racist.” 
 
 “It’s also not a mystery to me how a person with mental illness could be taken in by a party that has lost its mind.” 
 
 After showing Barr’s racist tweet about Obama administration aide Valerie Jarrett – “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj” – Maher said he didn’t quite get it. “Because I don’t have a decoder ring – I have no f*cking clue what you wing nuts in your bubble are talking about.” 
 
 Maher then pivoted to Samantha Bee, who rivaled Barr this week for instant internet backlash. Bee, Maher said, outraged President Donald Trump by calling daughter Ivanka a certain word: Feckless. “He doesn’t know what it means,” Maher shot, then in his best Trumpian impression said, “Maybe in the whole history of the world nobody is loaded with more feck than Ivanka, and I say that very strongly.” 
 
 Maher inevitably got to his history of comparing a politico to a primate. Reminding viewers that he was sued by Trump in 2013 after offering the Apprentice host $5 million to prove he was the offspring of Fred Trump and not an orangutan, Maher offered four “key facts” to explain the difference between his ape joke and Barr’s tweet. 
 
 Number 1, Maher said, is that “Trump is an orangutan.” Number 2: “White people have not been subjected to a racist trope comparing them to apes for hundreds of years.” Number 3: The orangutan snipe was a response to Trump’s “birtherism racist bullsh*t.” 
 
 And Number 4: “I’ve already been fired by ABC.” 
 
 "Roseanne has said she has multiple personalities – and unfortunately one of them is quite a racist. It's also not a mystery to me how a person with mental illness could be taken in by a party that has lost its mind." – @BillMaher #RealTime pic.twitter.com/8cX66Vm0TK — Real Time (@RealTimers) June 2, 2018 
 
 Maher also resurrected his catchphrase term for Trump – “whiny little b*itch” – for the president’s complaint that he, unlike Jarrett, didn’t get an apology from Disney CEO Bob Iger for ABC’s various slings and arrows over the years. 
 
 Said Maher, “This guy could tweet about the Hawaii volcano and he’d make it about him. I’m orange and gassy! Where’s my headline?“ 
 
 Later in the show, guest Charlamagne Tha God, co-host of iHeartRadio’s The Breakfast Club and author of the bestselling Black Privilege, took issue with Maher’s mental illness explanation for Barr’s racism. “Eh,” said Charlamagne. “We’re leaning on that a lot nowadays.” 
 
 “I don’t think calling a black woman a monkey is smart when your boss is a black woman,” Charlamagne said, referring to Channing Dungey, ABC Entertainment Group’s executive president. 
 
 And no, he said, he doesn’t feel sorry for the Roseanne cast and crew. 
 
 “When you get in bed with somebody like that,” he said, “you have to deal with the consequences of their actions.” 

 Bill Maher is the latest to voice his opinion on Roseanne Barr‘s Twitter scandal that led to the cancellation of her ABC sitcom Roseanne. 
 
 The Real Time with Bill Maher host addressed his “friend” on Friday night with a series of jokes touching on her, President Donald Trump and Kim Kardashian West. 
 
 “I was a tough week for the line,” Maher began. “You know the line? The one that comedians sometimes cross.” 
 
 “Half the country wants Roseanne to go away forever and half the country wants Samantha Bee to go away forever,” he continued. 
 
 “Now, Roseanne will always be my friend but her world came crashing down this week with a series of tweets she put out on Tuesday that were so full of racism, conspiracy theories and personal attacks they were described as abhorrent bordering on presidential.” 
 
 Maher also brought up Barr’s, 65, multiple personality disorder, which she revealed in 1994. 
 
 Bill Maher on Real Time with Bill Maher HBO 
 
 “My friend Roseanne admitted that she had been admitted to a mental institution,” Maher said on Friday’s show. “She has said she has multiple personalities and, unfortunately, one of them is quite a racist.” 
 
 He added, “It is not a mystery to me that a person with a mental illness could be taken in by a party that has lost its mind.” 
 
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 ABC canceled Roseanne earlier this week after she made a now-deleted tweet in which she compared Barack Obama’s former advisor Valerie Jarrett to an ape. 
 
 Maher, 62, also touched on Trump’s meeting this week with Kardashian West saying of the event, “there’s a picture of it you can find online if you Google ‘When America Died.'” 
 
 Kim Kardashian West meeting President Donald Trump at the White House Donald Trump/Twitter 
 
 “But if you think about it, it was probably a good meeting,” Maher continued. “They have a lot in common. They both come from reality TV, they both have their own brands and they both screwed a lot of black people.” 
 
 Earlier this week, Trump demanded an apology from ABC, tweeting, “Bob Iger of ABC called Valerie Jarrett to let her know that “ABC does not tolerate comments like those” made by Roseanne Barr. Gee, he never called President Donald J. Trump to apologize for the HORRIBLE statements made and said about me on ABC. Maybe I just didn’t get the call?” 
 
 Maher joked about Trump’s demand, saying he didn’t receive an apology “because no one at ABC ever called you an ape, you’re thinking of me.” 
 
 Maher has previously compared the president to an orangutan, something Trump and Barr’s supporters have brought up in the wake of the actress’ racist comment. 
 
 The host addressed why what Barr did is very different to his comparison in a bit he dubbed “explaining jokes to idiots.” 
 
 He said, “one, Trump is an orangutan” and “two, white people have not been subjected to racist trope comparing them to apes for hundreds of years.” 
 
 RELATED VIDEO: Roseanne Barr Breaks Her Silence After Show’s Cancellation, Claims She Was ‘Ambien Tweeting’ 
 
 On Thursday, Barr tweeted she had “begged” the network to not cancel the show, writing, “I begged them not to cancel the show. I told them I was willing to do anything & asked 4 help in making things right. I’d worked doing publicity4 them 4free for weeks, traveling, thru bronchitis. I begged4 ppls jobs.” 
 
 A source at ABC told PEOPLE on Friday the situation was “really unfortunate” as the revival was the network’s “biggest hit.” 
 
 “Everyone is upset for the cast and the crew, but there was always a feeling that something was going to happen,” the source said. “There was always a heightened awareness with her and we were always on edge about her going off track.” 
 
 The insider added, “But you just hold your breath until it does. Did we think she would say something like that? No. But then it all fell apart.”
– Bill Maher says Roseanne Barr will always be a friend, but he called her out for the volatile tweets that resulted in the cancellation of her show. In his new Real Time With Bill Maher on HBO, however, Maher also drew a connection with the 65-year-old Barr's history of mental illness. “My friend Roseanne admitted that she had been admitted to a mental institution,” Maher said. “She has said she has multiple personalities and, unfortunately, one of them is quite a racist.” (See the video.) Barr revealed in 1994 that she had been diagnosed with multiple personality disorder, notes People. “It is not a mystery to me that a person with a mental illness could be taken in by a party that has lost its mind," Maher said. Barr had made a reference to Valerie Jarrett and Planet of the Apes, and Maher brought up his own previous comparison of President Trump to an orangutan, reports Deadline. Not the same, he says. "White people have not been subjected to a racist trope comparing them to apes for hundreds of years.” Plus, he said, doubling down, "Trump is an orangutan." (Might Roseanne the show be back without Roseanne?)