‘Shock’ for staffers at nixed show

THE SUDDEN death of ABC’s “Roseanne” reboot was a plot twist staffers didn’t see coming, even with such an unpredictable star, one insider says.

“Everybody is still in shock at how quickly this all went down,” writer and executive producer Dave Caplan told The Hollywood Reporter.

“It’s unfortunate because the writers did pass on other jobs to take this job, and nobody really knows yet what kind of compensation they’re going to get. Everybody is a little bit on edge about how it’s going to turn out,” he said.

Caplan described the stunned atmosphere inside the writers’ room Tuesday as staffers who signed on to make a comedy dealt with heartache instead.

He said the group assembled in the morning for what was supposed to be their first day drafting the show’s 11th season. Instead of storylines, they shared their revulsion at Roseanne Barr’s (inset) toxic tweet comparing Obama aide Valerie Jarrett to an ape.

“The reaction was universal disgust,” he said. “We all felt the same thing about the tweet: We were horrified by it and we also knew what it meant for the show. So, there was a sadness about it, too, for us,” Caplan said.

A source told CNN that ABC executives considered Barr’s racist tweet “unsurvivable.”

The view was she had crossed the line several times before and seemed to be getting worse in terms of understanding what was acceptable and how her tweets reflected on the network. The execs who woke up to Barr’s Jarrett tweet and saw she also attacked Chelsea Clinton and called billionaire George Soros a “Nazi” decided “enough was enough,” the source told CNN.

Barr tweeted out an apology and reportedly was “contrite” on a conference call with show brass, but it was too late.

Her former co-star, John Goodman, shrugged off the controversy, telling Entertainment Tonight, he’s not on Twitter.

“I don’t know anything about it,” he told the show.