- Michael Fishman, Roseanne, TV, 1988-97. At eight, the Hollywood kid played DJ in the pilot – his one and only acting job. During the following writers’ strike, the producers went a year younger – just as Sal’s mother took him out of the show. Both moves for the same reason: friction between Sal and his screen sibling Sarah Gilbert. – as the kids of Roseanne Barr and John Goodman. Barr preferred Fishman because (a) he told her a joke when asked to (“Why did the turtle cross the road? it was the chicken’s day off”) and (b) he resembled her family.
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