It’s the nature of the grotesque that you cannot look away. You just find yourself staring at it. That’s my reason for posting this piece, Gawd knows there’s nothing newsworthy about some old fool standing up in public and trying to regain some of the attention that she once was able to draw her way. I believe that’s called “jumping the shark.” Roseanne Barr and Donald Trump do have that in common, they’re both TV icons who managed to cash in on P.T. Barnum’s axiom, “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.” And they both are grotesque, God knows.
If Trump had not taken a bizarre side turn into politics, he would have been lost and forgotten in history as just one more so-so talentless entertainer, who got an audience more from reading the cultural temperature of the times than from having any actual talent for comedy, analysis, music, the stuff which entertainment is made of. And the same can be said in many ways for Roseanne Barr. Here she is, after having had one too many, or maybe this is simply part of the “character” she’s decided to entertain us with. She’s sure packed a lot of isms and ishits in one paragraph, I’ll say that much.
Dear Alcohol, you're supposed to make me feel cool, sexy, smart, and really popular. We need to talk. From a sincere, angry customer.
— @Djsmith*56 (@DarrylJ1956) December 17, 2023
Remember when Roseanne Barr disrespected the National Anthem by screeching it out, grabbing her crotch and then spitting? Well, nothing’s changed. She’s just as gross now. pic.twitter.com/atzctTKe5d
— Make it Stop – Liberty and Justice for All 🌊🌊🌊 (@mcarr2021) December 17, 2023
There’s talk on Twitter of tickets to this event going in the $200 to $800 range and I am gobsmacked. They would have to pay me $200 to come down there and listen to this for an hour. At least $200. Plus all the booze I could swill down as fast as humanly possible so as to become as deadened as needed to find this amusing or inspiring. Or better yet, just enough to pass out, so that I didn’t know or care what was going on onstage.
— Mary Purviance (@MaryPurvia77887) December 17, 2023
I guess that settles it. Water has found its own level and Vivek Ramaswamy is now a rightwing marquee speaker at wingnuttia functions. I guess that’s what his presidential run was about all along.
Matt Schlapp seems notably absent, or did I just miss him, in that firmament of stars above? And where is that lovely Florida couple, Bridget and Christian Ziegler? But you want to know the omission that is truly shocking? Bobo. Where oh where is Lauren Boebert? Or, are she and her decolletage still down at Mar-a-Lago with Donald?
And I guess Roseanne joins Donald Trump, Jr., in the category of people where you ask: “Isn’t there one human being out there that cares enough about this person to get her some help?” Apparently not. And while Roseanne and Junior have the means to pay people to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to what’s really going on around them, then this is the public display that you’ll see.
Such a joy filled lady pic.twitter.com/Pa8K4Ivm12
— cjmmn (@ChuckCjmmn) December 17, 2023
Roseanne reminds me of an old expression, “Behold, an embittered old woman, Satan’s finest piece of handiwork.” Maybe we can one day see that amended to: “Behold, a horde of embittered old MAGA women, Satan’s biggest laugh to date.” And they think they’re cool, not knowing that the joke is on them. Therein lies their tragedy.
Your “… It’s the nature of the grotesque that you cannot look away. You just find yourself staring at it….” describes something as hideous as looking at a tarted-up warped sand shoe. It gets to the nut of it, doesn’t it. Slap!
Actual lipstick on an actual pig.
Looks like a demon from Hell. At least she’ll be with other demons she knows. Satan doesn’t allow singing in Hell. He only allows weeping and the gnashing of teeth. He may make an exception for her since it’s screeching and not singing.
Drunk – she’s mentally ill. PTSD – bipolar disorder and disassociative personality disorder. It’s been out on the net for along thime. Off meds?
BTW Roseanne, HATE makes your face & your soul, UGLY! You have found your “people” though!
Her original.show was actually pretty good. She laughed at herself, and the supporting cast were brilliant. But gossip made it clear the she had real.mental health issues and was so difficult to work with that John Goodman quit and Sara Gilbert went to Yale.
A good show starring a sad diva who should not drink and who could keeps psychiatric team busy for years.
I think her profession listed in the chyron needs to have sarcasm quotes, “Comedian”.
Add her to the list with Junior and Kanye who need to ask their respective doctors to adjust their meds.