ABC Cancels 'The Real Rosanne Show'

Bismarck Tribune ^ | August 19, 2003

[BradyLS]

Mary Tyler Moore tried and lost, as did Lucy and a host of lessers. It's pitiful when these old broads can't realize the sun has set.

Lucille Ball was extremely popular for a very long time. It seems that some incarnation of Lucy was on television regularly from the mid-50's through the mid-70's. I remember they tried to do another show with Lucy after the success of The Golden Girls established an audience for comedies played by old ladies. ;-) I don't know what the problem was, but the show didn't go a whole season. Lucille seemed game to try but she had been away from television for many years.

It showed. The comedy was retro (not a bad call, but clearly done to death); she was often (to my ears) difficult to understand, so jokes fell flat, and she simply was not the sprightly comic we all grew up with.

A real shame. I doubt the sort of hubris that keeps Rosanne going was what brought Lucille Ball back to television. She didn't need the money, she was just willing to give it a shot.

More importantly, though, Lucille (to my knowledge) never had the personna of being mean in the limelight. She was a star, always wore smile, and surrounded herself with happy professionals. Rosanne is and has none of those things. If she's trying to remake herself as the New Queen of Nice, she needs to drop the smug, back-biting snarkiness that seems to go with being a comic these days. She has a looong way to go.

[BradyLS]

I was totally in awe of the guy after that. I don't know of anybody who I could say could pull that off cold like he did.

Nerves of steel-- the kind that showmen who once performed live needed to keep the checks coming.

...and I'm willing to be he'd had a little practice at more than a couple Hollyweird parties where some crazy lib thought to make a fool of him in front of the bigwigs. ;-)

[Dick Steele]

Roseanne Barr was amusing for a good FIVE minutes back in the 80's...and it was ALL downhill from there.

Her massive EGO prevented her from realizing that the show "ROSEANNE" was popular DESPITE her presence...polls which asked regular viewers to 'name their favorite character' showed her running less than 10%...

The only reason ANYONE even knows her name these days is due to her 1 1/2 DECADES of 'National Enquirer' publicity stunts.
She is to 'actresses' as GERALDO is to 'journalists'...

[Byron_the_Aussie]

..that was the OTHER fat lesbo....

Thanks, Ann.

There's so many fat lesbos on the Left it gets your head spinnin', don't it?

[Byron_the_Aussie]

...he was a perfect gentleman and weathered her blitzkrieg in amazing fashion...

Yes, he was.

Just hoping his bravery didn't put him on the Hollywood blacklist.

[Cheapskate]

I think Tom put in an appearance on Hosannes show a week or so after the other pig's show.
so I'm pretty sure he had the hunch that more grief was coming downrange.

[bert]

.....hysterectomy.....

She should go on "Nip and Tuck" and have that mole removed. Maybe she could get a funnybone implant too.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

My boss had a hysterectomy on a Friday and was back at work on Monday.

Yep, and the way they juggle production schedules for TV Rosanne would've been given much more time off than that. This is a convenient excuse for the network to dump her.

[Libertina]

They couldn't figure this out BEFOREHAND?

[jbill2004]

well i don't know about you all, but i like Rosanne Barr. She is funny and down to eearth and tells it like it is. Shes not afraid to keep her mouth shut if someone pisses her off...

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Only a TROLL would admire slime like the MAD COW.

So, get your asbestos flak jacket on quick. There is heavy artillery coming your way!