Rosie’s sit and crotch grab was one of the funniest things I have ever seen. I remember watching baseball when I was little and that was all that stuck with me, was the spitting and crotch grabbing, lol... (50s, early 60s).
Rosenne was good up through season 7. Season 8 was medicre and season 9 was a shark jumping craptastrophe!!!!
I happen to have had literally RINGSIDE seats for that “performance”.
I used to be in Real Estate in San Diego. One day, at a weekly meeting of commercial brokers, it came to be that an acquaintance wanted to know if anyone wanted to use his Season Tickets.
It was a “minor” game for the Padres and the others there were coincidentally “occupied”...so I was amazed when it was ME that ended up with the tickets.
When I got to the Stadium, I thought this guy was putting me on....as he had SO casually gifted me the seats....
I went down and down and down....not KNOWING precisely where the seats were...I had only been told they were “pretty good”.
I’ll SAY...!!!
You know that “fastball fence” behind home plate...???
Well, these particular seats just happened to be the FIRST TWO next to the fence....literally on TOP of the Home Team DUGOUT...!!!
I nearly pooped my panties when I realized just HOW good the game was going to be.
..........that is UNTIL Roseanne strode out and PURPPOSELY butchered the National Anthem.
[grrrr.....!!!]
It’s only a few yards from Home plate to those seats and I could CLEARLY see that she PURPOSELY hosed the performance.
When she grabbed her crotch and spit on the ground....well...let’s just say approximately 45,000 people were booing....I don’t know HOW the stadium cops got her out of there alive.
Any statement she has EVER made about that day and her glee in ridiculing a grand tradition and a wonderful song are patently FALSE if she pleads ANY kind of “innocence”.
Nearly ruined the whole experience....
Now, to top THAT off, I had actually MET that nasty “woman” in Denver some years before as a friend had a stand up comedy club, The Comedy Works....met Yackoff Schmirnoff, Louis Anderson, et al.
And, all I can tell you about Rosanne is that not ONE moment of her vicious, brutish facade is “acting”....that’s her alright.
sheesh...!!!
She wasn’t funny then....just CRUDE....and to think I had the dubious “pleasure” of those two encounters....sigh....
Why couldn’t it be somebody COOL...???
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Louis Anderson is positively one of THE funniest people alive, however....!!!
I had dinner with him after his performance and we had to BEG him to stop because we were getting severe jaw cramps from laughing SO hard...no exaggeration....true stories, all....!!!