Tom Arnold trash-talks after Chuck Lorre claims 'Roseanne' writers penned star's episodes

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Set us as preferred Actor Tom Arnold unleashed on Chuck Lorre on X in response to the former “Roseanne” writer-producer’s claims in his new memoir, “Sitcom.”“He thinks he’s brilliant & beloved like Norman Lear but Chuck ‘Chuckles’ Lorre’s a terrible human, an angry dry drunk who lies every time he opens his mouth,” Arnold wrote Tuesday.Arnold and the ’90s sitcom’s co-creator and titular star, Roseanne Barr, were married Jan.

20, 1990, four months after he first appeared on the show as a poker pal of Barr’s TV husband and four days after Barr’s real-life divorce from her husband of 14 years, William Pentland, was finalized.Entertainment & Arts Former musician, Scientologist and Charlie Sheen punching bag Chuck Lorre created some of the biggest sitcoms in television history.

Now he’s written a dishy, thoughtful how-I-did-it memoir.Barr and Arnold were hostile to their writing and producing colleagues on the show and the network, Lorre told the Los Angeles Times’ culture critic Mary McNamara in an interview published Tuesday, the day of the book’s release.“We were punished, the writers,” Lorre told The Times.

“The word ‘cruelty’ comes to mind.And I still don’t know why, why so much cruelty.

It wasn’t like we didn’t want to make a great show.We were proud to be on that show.”Hired in 1990 after Barr fired all of the show’s writers, Lorre recalls in the book that he had a rude awakening when he took the job.“I was now the co–executive producer on the number one show on television.

I swaggered into the office assigned to me and met Danny Jacobson (a world-class comedy writer who would go on to cocreate ‘Mad About You’ with, sorry, Paul — ‘My Two Dads’ — Reiser),” Lorre writes in “Sitcom.”“Danny, having been fired by Roseanne for being talen...