ABC star Richard Schiff has told DailyMailTV that network bosses should not have fired Roseanne Barr for her racist tweet.
Schiff, star of ABC's prime time drama The Good Doctor and a prominent Democratic campaigner, said that it should have been left up to the audience to decide whether to watch Barr's eponymous sitcom.
Barr was terminated by ABC and her show canceled when for a tweet comparing Valerie Jarrett, President Obama's adviser who is African American, to an 'ape'.
ABC said the tweet was 'abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values', and ended the second season of the revived sitcom. Instead they will show The Conners, with Roseanne's character killed off.
But Schiff, 63, said it should be up to audiences to make a judgment on the conduct of those who make and star in shows, rather than network executives, saying that Roseanne was a 'comedic actress dealing with very important social issues'.
Schiff's intervention in the debate provides unexpected support from a prominent liberal for Barr, a Trump supporter.
The former West Wing star has campaigned for Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders and been vocal in his support for the Democratic party.
Support: Richard Schiff, star of ABC's The Good Doctor, has told DailyMailTV that he is uncomfortable with Roseanne Barr's ABC role being terminated for her racist tweet
Infamous: Roseanne Barr's tweet set off a firestorm which ended her ABC career - something which Schiff tells DailyMailTV should have left to viewers to decide
Back to business: Instead of Roseanne, ABC will show The Conners, a spin-off with the rest of the cast in which Roseanne's character has been killed off
The Good Doctor: Richard Schiff plays Dr. Aaron Glassman, opposite Freddie Highmore's Shaun Murphy, who is a young savant autistic surgical resident at San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital.
He told DailyMailTV: 'To me it just gets to be a dangerous place where somebody speaks out of line, it might be what they actually believe, they might just be what trying to get attention at the moment.
'And then to be banned - she didn't physically do anything to anybody.
'I understand the sensitivity of race issues and gender issues and all those things. And wouldn't it be great if we all were all polite and lovely people? But we're not.
'I just think that we go to dangerous territory when we start depriving the ability of people to make a living because of one thing that they said that was out of line. I find that tough.'
Instead, he suggested, it should be up to viewers to decide if her show remained popular, or whether her tweets prompted them to switch off.
'The way you regulate that in my opinion, is that if you don't like what she says and you want to make a point of it, then don't watch,' he said.
'If you don't like what she says, express it. Don't watch her, don't support her, don't buy tickets to her shows, don't buy products that advertise if she's on TV.
'I think it's a sensitive, difficult path to go down, to start banning people for tweets, it bothers me. '
He added: 'We overreact to every little thing. I think we've been incited from the top down to bring out our worst sides.
'To spew hate and to spew judgement at every turn. And it's dangerous and it leads to stuff like this.
'And it's going to go along to both sides. Good people are going to be taken out because they said something inappropriate.
'I just don't think we should be stuffing socks in people's mouths, even when they're outrageous, I just don't think so. If they're inciting violence, that's another ballgame, that's illegal. If you're inciting hate groups, that's illegal. I understand that and I get it.'
Roseanne has said that she was on Ambien when she tweeted - which she is repeating in an upcoming interview with Dr Oz - and apologized for it, although she also said: 'I thought the b*** was white.'
Asked about Roseanne's announcement that was working on show ideas, he reacted: 'If she wants to do a comeback it's fine by me. She should what she wants to do and Roseanne aways did and I am kind of sad about that to be honest.
'I don't quite understand the vitriol that comes at people. I know her statement was outrageous.
'I am gonna miss her voice as a comedic actress dealing with some very important social issues on her show.'
He also gave his support to Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Josh Hader, after racist tweets from his teen years emerged this summer, saying he deserved a second chance.
'You know the poor baseball player who tweeted horrible stuff, no doubt - racist, and stupid,' Schiff said.
'He was seventeen, he was in high school, in a small town and didn't think twice about it at the time. Is now an adult, is now matured, is now experienced life and people from different racial cultures and different countries all over the world, and he's changed.
'And he's gotta to pay the price for something he did six, seven years ago, when he was a kid. And I just think, that just bothers me.'
Schiff is one of the leads in The Good Doctor as Dr. Aaron Glassman, opposite Freddie Highmore's Shaun Murphy, who is a young savant autistic surgical resident at San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital.
Liberal icons: Richard Schiff played Toby Ziegler in the West Wing, Arron Sorkin's hit about an ultra-liberal White House led by Martin Sheen's Jeb Bartlett. Schiff has campaigned for Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders
Give him a chance: Schiff tells DailyMailTV Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Josh Hader deserves credit for having matured after racist and homophobic tweets from six or more years ago surfaced
Sympathy: Schiff said of tweets by Josh Hader which included these that 'he's gotta to pay the price for something he did six, seven years ago, when he was a kid. And I just think, that just bothers me.'
Another apology: Norm Macdonald was also caught up in the firestorm surrounding Roseanne when he went to bat for both her and Louis C.K.
ABC will air the second season starting September 24.
Schiff blamed Donald Trump for the environment in the country.
'Well that's where it comes from, it starts from the top down, it starts from someone inciting hate. He's inciting violence, he's inciting civil war, in my opinion,' he said.
'And when you start attacking someone for a stupid comment, that feeds into that desire on his part to split us down the middle.
'So I don't want to think of Roseanne as an enemy because she said something really stupid and offensive, I just don't want to, I'm not going to go down that road.
'It starts with the president of the United States, trying to find ways to divide us and to create violence in the end, and I don't want to be a part of that.'
Schiff spoke exclusively to DailyMailTV as he attended TV Legend Ed Asner's 6th Annual Celebrity Poker Tournament raising funds for autism, in Los Angeles.
Schiff's comments come in the wake of comic Norm Macdonald facing a firestorm for insinuating that Roseanne and Louis C.K. deserved a second chance.
Macdonald's comments saw Jimmy Fallon cancel an appearance on Tuesday's Tonight Show, then Macdonald telling Howard Stern on his Wednesday Sirius XM radio show his comments had been misconstrued, only to create more controversy.
In his initial interview with The Hollywood Reporter, he said 'I do think that at some point it will end with a completely innocent person of prominence sticking a gun in his head and ending it. That's my guess. I know a couple of people this has happened to. '
Friends: Schiff spoke as he joined a huge Hollywood star list, including Tom Arnold, Kate Linder, Steven Weber, REM's Mike Mills and Eric Roberts, at the 6th Annual Ed Asner & Friends Poker Tournament Celebrity Night.
When asked who he was referring to he said that it was 'Louis and Roseanne .'
He added: 'Roseanne was so broken up [after her show's reboot was canceled] that I got Louis to call her, even though Roseanne was very hard on Louis before that.
'Of course, people will go, 'What about the victims?' But you know what? The victims didn't have to go through that. '
He also added: 'I'm happy the #MeToo movement has slowed down a little bit ... that Chris Hardwick guy, I really thought got the blunt end of the stick there.'
His interview with Stern to clean up the controversy had the opposite effect when he said: 'I never defended them. I am completely behind the #MeToo movement.'
He continued, 'You'd have to have Down Syndrome to not feel sorry for — #MeToo is what you want for your daughters, and you want that to be the future world, of course.'
That prompted him to be rebuked by disability campaigners for his language.
Schiff spoke as he joined a huge Hollywood star list, including Tom Arnold, Kate Linder, Steven Weber, REM's Mike Mills and Eric Roberts, at the 6th Annual Ed Asner & Friends Poker Tournament Celebrity Night.
The evening benefits the new The Ed Asner Family Center, dedicated to helping differently 'abled' individuals with special needs nurture and cultivate self-confidence and to embrace and support their families.
Schiff said of his pal: 'I support Ed Asner no matter where he is, what he is doing and what he wants me to do. I love the man.
'I have a son with autism and we have connected on that issue. I am happy to come out and support him and I am glad a whole lot of people have come out as well.'
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Main photo article ABC star Richard Schiff has told DailyMailTV that network bosses should not have fired Roseanne Barr for her racist tweet.
Schiff, star of ABC’s prime time drama The Good Doctor and a prominent Democratic campaigner, said that it should have been left up to the audience to decide whether...
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