Roseanne took a gamble. Give her another try.

Roseanne Barr started her career as a successful standup comic. She had her greatest success in her TV show 30 years ago in the recently reprised role of a smalltown housewife whose life is meaningless to everyone but her and her family.

While many may have suspected Roseanne’s namesake character, who was a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, might harbor bigoted and racist thoughts, it would have been difficult to announce her character as such. It worked for Archie Bunker, who was a buffoon who constantly was falling face first into doggie doo without knowing it. Archie was a brilliant portrayal. Roseanne was a sad character whose dialogue included a few halfbaked one-liners that praised our current president.

Without prompting, Roseanne not only fell in it, she rolled around it with a vile comment that missed the comedy mark, but provided a set up for revealing what Roseanne Connor was really about. She couldn’t make the remark about “VJ” on air without taking the bold move of testing it off air.

Was she or was she not promoting her character for next season? If she was, she could have hired dueling writers to write for her and her supporting characters. It could be like Washington, where Roseanne makes a remark that is thereafter interpreted by Kellyanne, Reince, Sean, Sarah, the Mooch and the many members of the congressional clown college.

Roseanne took the bold, head-first flop for the team and ABC should have let this highly rated funny lady try to get back up.