Posted on 02/17/2023 6:55:26 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I remember the first time I saw actress and comedienne Roseanne Barr perform her stand-up routine. It was on the gold standard of late night talk shows, “The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson.” Her appearances in 1985, which introduced Barr and her term “domestic goddess,” struck a cord with every day Americans just trying to live their lives and raise a family.
The exposure Barr got from Carson’s support went a long way to snagging a sitcom deal for a show she wrote and created, “Roseanne.” The show, which started in 1988 and ran for nine seasons, went on to win four Emmys and cement Barr as one of the most important comedic voices of our time.
Then in 2018, the show was revived. But during the first season, Barr was removed from her own show after she made a joke on the Twitters about Obama administration advisor Valerie Jarrett. The show resumed, only without Barr as a producer and under the title “The Conners.”
Earlier this week, Roseanne Barr returned to stand-up with a new comedy special airing on Fox Nation.
As part of promoting the special, Barr sat down with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson to talk about her side of the story on how she was “one of the first casualt[ies]….in a large way” of what we know know as cancel culture. As Roseanne puts it in a clip from her stand-up, “[she] racially misgendered somebody [she] thought was a white woman.”
Barr says that the main reason she lost her job on “Roseanne” and blackballed from the entertainment industry was that “the Left has no humor at all, let’s be real. They have no sense of humor at all, nor do they have any sense of humor about themselves. Anybody in power who can’t take a joke about themselves, like the person I mentioned, she should have just laughed it off. Instead, she called ABC and demanded that I be fired….[T]hat’s a dangerous human being.”
But Barr says that she and her fellow comedians “made a pact” to fight back the best way they know how:
The comedian shared how her and her other friends [comedians] that were also victims of cancel culture made a pact that when they all come back, “we’re going to be even more offensive than we’ve ever been before.”
“And I’m so happy because you’ve got to be more offensive when the culture is so offensive that it makes absolutely no sense that it’s anti-life, anti-human, anti-culture, anti-citizen,” said Barr. “You’ve got to be so offensive to offend the most offensive thing that is on earth right now. And I think I’ve done it.”
She continues:
So many other comics have fallen too. [They] can’t find work and have no livelihood, unless they are ridiculously sucking up to [the Left].
Barr also mentions Joe Biden. “Jokes are a great way to scorn power, especially during Biden’s presidency. I love laughing it to scorn, because it deserves to be laughed to scorn.”
As comedians like David Spade, Dave Chappelle and the late Norm MacDonald showed over and over, comedy is one of the strongest weapons we have as conservatives in the fight against the Left. And it’s how we’ll win.
Are you really going to dredge up that piece of celebrity history, considering that the President at the time has committed far more egregious scandals to the country as a whole?
bkmk
She made a “planet of the apes” reference about some white lady who is 4% black or something. So the left hates her. Unfortunately for her, she’s not exactly beloved by the right either.
RE: Are you really going to dredge up that piece of celebrity history
Only if she regrets doing what she did. Otherwise, be very wary of her “conservastism” and making her conservatism’s icon.
I must admit she actually looks better today in her old age than she did back in the 90s.
She’s screwed up.
Hard to believe Tom Arnold went down on that.
She musta been his meal ticket. He was into the dessert.
Oh yeah, I would totally disembowele her.
She was a generic celebrity then. Who Cares? Does it matter now, considering the corruption that's happening now?
Otherwise, be very wary of her “conservastism” and making her conservatism’s icon.
Barr was neve a conservative. She was just a celebrity who happened to have her head on straight.
RE: Barr was neve a conservative. She was just a celebrity who happened to have her head on straight.
Then I disagree with the title of this thread. She is NOT CRUCIAL to conservatism.
And all the other stuff she did.
Sorry but just because you got "canceled" by the very culture you supported does not make you a conservative or worthy of my support.
"Save Us."
"No."
Thank you.
She made the comment about Valerie Jarrett
Her recent comedy show, on Fox Nation, is worth the watch.
Hubby and I are still getting a kick from her jokes....the “vax” quips were outstanding.
Thanks Jane! Hugs!
Who's asking her to be?
Had to go there..
Didn’t ya.
lol- she does- but in the end, she still has mental issues to deal with- she is a live wire- never know when she will go off the deep end
Your Posting and Yet you
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