Get the flannels out of storage! Roseanne Barr's Downwardly Mobile is on the way from 20th Century Fox. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the upcoming family comedy, made in partnership with Barr's boyfriend Johnny Argent, will once again star Roseanne as the matriarch of a blue-collar clan. DJ's probably still up in his room, so which makes the casting director's job easier right off the bat.
Roseanne's Nuts, the upcoming Lifetime reality show about Roseanne Barr's macadamia nut farm, has a title you could take a few ways. One, you could take it literally, as it is about her macadamia nuts. You could also read it as a take on her sanity, as in "man, that Roseanne sure is nuts!" Or, if you're feeling a little childish, you could read it as if it was talking about a part of Roseanne's anatomy that I'm pretty sure doesn't exist. Three guesses as to which reading of it the first promo leans very heavily on!
Women have proven they could be funny since the beginning of television; there were female comedy stars on shows like SNL, Lilly Tomlin on Laugh In, Carol Burnett. But the sitcom was different — the mothers, girlfriend and secretaries were secondary characters. Women were never the comedic force on a sitcom. They never had the punchline, they were the punchline. But all that changed in the 1980s.
I was born in 1982, and 7 years later I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. While most girls my age wanted to be doctors, teachers and princesses, I wanted to work in a bar. I [...]
During Roseanne's interview on Kimmel last night, the newly farmer-ized comedian explains the role of her rustic overalls during the coming End Times. "This is, like, the future, I think. Everybody's going to be wearing these kinds of outfits pretty damn soon when everyone has to start growing their own gardens to eat," Barr gleefully explains. "Definitely. 2012: end of the world. Get ready for it, ladies and gentlemen." In addition to promoting Roseanne's Nuts and her new book Roseannearchy, Barr praises the planet-saving nuts, explains how to farm bees, discusses trans-species communication and spitballs a few ideas for the role of men (drones, garbage collectors, moving [...]
Looks like Roseanne might be guest starring in Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea. "I'm talking to Roseanne Barr to do some guest episodes as my aunt. She's interested in doing it, so it should be fun," Handler told The Hollywood Reporter. Based on the show's promo, Handler could use a brash, wise-cracking relative to puncture Laura Prepon's naive alcoholic fantasies. You know, like your real aunt would.
While visiting Letterman to promote the aptly named Roseanne's Nuts, the comedic mother of us all described how her sister overheard two people in the audience of the Roseanne pilot complaining, "Who's gonna watch this? This show's a piece of crap. Who's going to watch this show about fat people?" The fact that those people were Roseanne's agent and the show's producer should be a surprise to absolutely no one, provided they've listened to anything the woman has had to say in last few decades. Another roll of butcher paper for the fired list!
Stop whatever you're doing (unless it's directing air traffic or something; hopefully you have a lunch break soon) and read Roseanne Barr's New York Mag article. In her searing, riveting "And I Should Know," Barr lays bare her grueling experience making her classic sitcom, including the non-stop meddling of producers and the viscous sexism she experienced even when her show hit #1. "It didn’t take long for me to get a taste of the staggering sexism and class bigotry that would make the first season of Roseanne god-awful," she writes, explaining "Nothing real or truthful makes its way to TV unless you are smart and know how to [...]
