Tim Allen Breaks Silence About Roseanne’s Show Getting Canceled.

Tim Allen’s Last Man Standing returns to the airwaves soon, and he was just interviewed recently about the whole Roseanne hullabaloo.

He said:

“I go way back with Rosie and that’s not the Rosie I know. She was the most diverse and tolerant woman I’ve ever known for a long time. Whatever got in her head isn’t the Roseanne I know. It’s a very icy time. I’ve been a comedian for 38 years and I’ve never seen it, like Lenny Bruce said at the Purple Onion, ‘We’ve gone backwards.’ There are things you can’t say. There are things you shouldn’t say. Who makes up these rules? And as a stand-up comic, it’s a dangerous position to be in because I like pushing buttons. It’s unfortunate.”

He also said that ABC did “what they had to do” and that it was their decision to make. Fair enough. But yeah, like a lot of other comedians, he’s right to be concerned about how completely wack things have gotten. And we’re still waiting for a copy of whatever rule book dictates what people can and can’t say anymore.

He also answered questions about the reboot of his own show, and about whether or not his character would be a Trump supporter. His response was as follows:

“It’s a legitimate question. I think the guy is a centrist … he’s probably pro-Trump. He probably doesn’t defend him. He’s for whatever is good for his business and for the state of Colorado. I’m not the character I play. Keanu Reeves didn’t actually murder 100 people in John Wick. What’s interesting to me is pissing people off.”

He also said that his show would be different than Roseanne’s in that they would not “sex it up, or outrage it up, in order to fit the profile of anything.”

It’ll start back up this fall. Will you watch?