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A collection of Tweets from Roseanne Barr. (Offensive) (Original Post) ismnotwasm Mar 2018 OP
She is a complete idiot about everything but comedy. She does the opposite on purpose all Eliot Rosewater Mar 2018 #1
I dont watch much TV ismnotwasm Mar 2018 #4
Correction BannonsLiver Mar 2018 #6
According to almost anybody who is anybody in the world of stand-up she isnt just talented Eliot Rosewater Mar 2018 #9
Nonsense BannonsLiver Mar 2018 #11
I can do this all day long, but I wont, I am out after this Eliot Rosewater Mar 2018 #13
Eliot ProfessorGAC Mar 2018 #16
BUt dont ask me, ask ANY stand up, they are the ones who say this, not me. Eliot Rosewater Mar 2018 #18
Any list edhopper Mar 2018 #32
I Too Know 2 in Show Biz ProfessorGAC Mar 2018 #36
Who cares? BannonsLiver Mar 2018 #20
Never said I loved her, at all. Made a point to say this is the opinion of those Eliot Rosewater Mar 2018 #22
Wow edhopper Mar 2018 #29
She is only one of the all time greats according to almost every poll ever done on it and Eliot Rosewater Mar 2018 #31
I am talking from the experience edhopper Mar 2018 #33
She seems nice . . . hatrack Mar 2018 #2
The real Roseanne. dalton99a Mar 2018 #3
White Trash Personified magicarpet Mar 2018 #5
That is a far too kind understatement. Raster Mar 2018 #10
What is "white trash"? MountCleaners Mar 2018 #15
Your query *almost* sounds sincere. LanternWaste Mar 2018 #19
White Supremacists, Nazis, Fascists... magicarpet Mar 2018 #21
I agree. She is just as crass and vulgar as her beloved Trump. smirkymonkey Mar 2018 #25
Roseanne Barr. That girl don't act right ProudLib72 Mar 2018 #7
This Roseanne Barr, The Nazi Baker "comedy skit" magicarpet Mar 2018 #23
I know about the Nazi baker pics ProudLib72 Mar 2018 #24
I don't understand why DUers amplify her question everything Mar 2018 #8
She's a one-bit mind with a parity error. backscatter712 Mar 2018 #12
Pizza gate! LOL she is unintentionally still funny I guess Johonny Mar 2018 #14
Between her and some the other comedians out there I'm starting to think they're all insane TNLib Mar 2018 #17
But if we just talk to her REALnice, we can get her to vote for a Democrat EffieBlack Mar 2018 #26
Clearly, shes has delicate feelings and has economic anxiety ismnotwasm Mar 2018 #27
Shhh! EffieBlack Mar 2018 #30
Roseanne is a true Deplorable Tarc Mar 2018 #28
I dont watch much TV ismnotwasm Mar 2018 #34
I have been away from the computer for awhile and came back to find this Roseanne storm Tipperary Mar 2018 #38
Indeed Tarc Mar 2018 #39
Hum.. isn't she on ABC owned by Disney? FloridaBlues Mar 2018 #35
it has already been renewed for another season obamanut2012 Mar 2018 #42
Mahalo, ism.. it's Cha Mar 2018 #37
Oh, these are tame! Today she was spreading 4chan conspiracy theories based on pizzagate octoberlib Mar 2018 #40
The called Parkland survibor David Hogg a Nazi the night of her premiere obamanut2012 Mar 2018 #41

Eliot Rosewater

(31,113 posts)
1. She is a complete idiot about everything but comedy. She does the opposite on purpose all
Fri Mar 30, 2018, 12:11 PM
Mar 2018

the time.

As a person I would not want to be in the same room with her at this time, but the show is good.

Laurie is fantastic. If the show for ONE SECOND pushes a lie about the traitor, I am out.

ismnotwasm

(41,998 posts)
4. I dont watch much TV
Fri Mar 30, 2018, 12:16 PM
Mar 2018

So I’m not watching it for that reason. I can’t claim any moral reasoning.
I suspect the show won’t be the juggernaut it’s being touted to be, with its very unstable star.
It’s interesting, as others have pointed out, that Rosanne actually DOES represent a Trump follower in real life, and the show will make her tone that shit down. The whole situation is bizarre

BannonsLiver

(16,434 posts)
6. Correction
Fri Mar 30, 2018, 12:18 PM
Mar 2018

She's an idiot about EVERYTHING. It's amazing to me people actually think she's talented on any level. She's not.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,113 posts)
9. According to almost anybody who is anybody in the world of stand-up she isnt just talented
Fri Mar 30, 2018, 12:19 PM
Mar 2018

but one of the best of all time.

Most of those opinions were formed 30 years ago even before the TV show.

No, she is one of the great all time stand-ups, well at least according to EVERYBODY in stand-up but she is very very dumb about everything else

ProfessorGAC

(65,136 posts)
16. Eliot
Fri Mar 30, 2018, 12:31 PM
Mar 2018

I see lots of names on that list i find far funnier than Barr, and much further down the list. So, this is strictly subjective.

And having seen a couple of her specials from back in the day, i thought she was funny, but "one of the best of all time" seems overstated, by quite a lot.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,113 posts)
18. BUt dont ask me, ask ANY stand up, they are the ones who say this, not me.
Fri Mar 30, 2018, 12:33 PM
Mar 2018

I was never a huge fan, but I know personally (my son is in the business) and I have a close friend who is a SAG actor who knows a lot of the big names in comedy from the 70's and 80's and they ALL say this.

This isnt my opinion. I think she was good, but when I heard all of these stories I was also surprised.

For instance did you know most actors think Laurie Metcalf is one of the greatest actors alive?


https://www.timeout.com/newyork/comedy/best-comedians-of-all-time

#13 in that one

And in the category of women, there is simply no question she is in the hierarchy the way Carlin, Pryor and until recently Cosby are.

edhopper

(33,605 posts)
32. Any list
Fri Mar 30, 2018, 01:40 PM
Mar 2018

that puts Rosanne over Dangerfield and Rickles isn't worth the pixels that display it.

They put her right behind Bruce ferchistdake!

Pure donkey droppings.

ProfessorGAC

(65,136 posts)
36. I Too Know 2 in Show Biz
Sat Mar 31, 2018, 05:33 AM
Mar 2018

Both have done stand up. Neither had ever mentioned her in those tones.
So, I think we're back to subjectivity
At least we disagree, most agreeably!

BannonsLiver

(16,434 posts)
20. Who cares?
Fri Mar 30, 2018, 12:50 PM
Mar 2018

Rankings on comedy, or anything having to do with creativity and performance, are highly subjective. Anyway, I get it. You love you some Roseanne. So we'll agree to disagree.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,113 posts)
22. Never said I loved her, at all. Made a point to say this is the opinion of those
Fri Mar 30, 2018, 12:56 PM
Mar 2018

who know, those in the business.

Now you are insulting me.

Bye ...

edhopper

(33,605 posts)
29. Wow
Fri Mar 30, 2018, 01:30 PM
Mar 2018

if Apple07 says it, it must be true.

I notice it's a list of just well known comediennes. And some of them aren't stand ups.

She is far from an all-time great. Very good, yes, but that is about it.

And her disgusting behavior of late more than negates any talent she may have.

Do it "all day long" it just isn't true.

I saw here doing stand up in the 80s. Not great.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,113 posts)
31. She is only one of the all time greats according to almost every poll ever done on it and
Fri Mar 30, 2018, 01:34 PM
Mar 2018

almost every person in the world of stand up, other than that, no she aint nothing.

I dont even like her much myself, thought her stand up was funny but not earth shattering funny, thought her original show was not that funny but love Laurie and John.

You are NOT arguing with me you are arguing with the world of people who do this for a living and almost every industry poll done on the subject.

I get why you dont like her politics, I dont either.

MountCleaners

(1,148 posts)
15. What is "white trash"?
Fri Mar 30, 2018, 12:27 PM
Mar 2018

Does it refer to a socioeconomic background? Is it to distinguish some people from other "colors" of "trash"?

magicarpet

(14,160 posts)
21. White Supremacists, Nazis, Fascists...
Fri Mar 30, 2018, 12:52 PM
Mar 2018

.... Who proudly wear, display, and march under the banners of the Stars and Bars (Treasonous Confederate Flag) and the Swastika.

That is White Supremacy - White Power - White Trash. Light complected people with no socially redeeming values, nothing to contribute to the betterment of society, who only seek to dismantle, degrade, defile, and debase. Refuge - White Refuge - White Trash - if you will so allow.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
25. I agree. She is just as crass and vulgar as her beloved Trump.
Fri Mar 30, 2018, 01:16 PM
Mar 2018

I never could stand her and I don't see the point in watching her now. I don't really watch much TV anyway, so I am not going to go out of my way to contribute to her ratings.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
24. I know about the Nazi baker pics
Fri Mar 30, 2018, 01:11 PM
Mar 2018

They are arguing about the context they appeared in on another thread. It seems those pics are ok because they appeared in Heeb magazine nine years ago. I call bs on that. Regardless of how one views those pics, no one can really justify these tweets the same way. She's a deplorable. They should just rename her show "Basket of Deplorables" and be done with it.

question everything

(47,518 posts)
8. I don't understand why DUers amplify her
Fri Mar 30, 2018, 12:19 PM
Mar 2018

I have never watched her in the 80s - or whenever it was - and am not going to watch her now.

And if this makes me an elitist - I will wear this with honor.

TNLib

(1,819 posts)
17. Between her and some the other comedians out there I'm starting to think they're all insane
Fri Mar 30, 2018, 12:31 PM
Mar 2018

She seems to have serious mental health issues.

 

EffieBlack

(14,249 posts)
26. But if we just talk to her REALnice, we can get her to vote for a Democrat
Fri Mar 30, 2018, 01:17 PM
Mar 2018

But only if we're vewy vewy careful not to say anything that might offend her.

ismnotwasm

(41,998 posts)
27. Clearly, shes has delicate feelings and has economic anxiety
Fri Mar 30, 2018, 01:22 PM
Mar 2018

Then again, she could also be a flat-out bigot like the rest of the Trump supporters

Tarc

(10,476 posts)
28. Roseanne is a true Deplorable
Fri Mar 30, 2018, 01:25 PM
Mar 2018

but as I've said elsewhere, the show is not just about her. She's rally been a side story thus far.

People really need to dial it down a bit over a tv show.

ismnotwasm

(41,998 posts)
34. I dont watch much TV
Fri Mar 30, 2018, 02:16 PM
Mar 2018

I didn’t watch the old show, and find nothing compelling about the new one. What is interesting to me, is these are some of the Tweets she deleted,so as to become more palatable to her audience.

I think as a public person she shouldn’t get a pass just because she has a TV show. As far as I’m concerned she expresses the angst of White bigots fairly accurately. I don’t give a shit about the angst of white bigots.

 

Tipperary

(6,930 posts)
38. I have been away from the computer for awhile and came back to find this Roseanne storm
Sat Mar 31, 2018, 08:34 AM
Mar 2018

raging. So I watched the show to see what all the fuss was about and sorry, I thought it was funny. If anything, Roseanne comes off as the butt of the joke. I like all the other members of the cast so I intend to watch it again.

This certainly has become the latest du poutrage lol.

Tarc

(10,476 posts)
39. Indeed
Sat Mar 31, 2018, 01:19 PM
Mar 2018

I mean, there is a bit of whitewashing going on, Roseanne (the actress) is portraying Roseanne (the character) and Dan as "bigots who mean well" as they try to relate to their grandson who wears what are regarded as women's clothing. But intelligent people, i.e. DU'ers, should be able to easily see through that and resist it.

Even as a guy, I quite identified with Darlene in the original show, and hope the focus remains on her and her kids going forward.

FloridaBlues

(4,008 posts)
35. Hum.. isn't she on ABC owned by Disney?
Fri Mar 30, 2018, 02:18 PM
Mar 2018

Wonder how long before they don't rehire this show for another season?

Cha

(297,503 posts)
37. Mahalo, ism.. it's
Sat Mar 31, 2018, 06:27 AM
Mar 2018

necessary to know who's trying to normalize trump.. clue.. Roseanne's not normal.

octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
40. Oh, these are tame! Today she was spreading 4chan conspiracy theories based on pizzagate
Sat Mar 31, 2018, 01:26 PM
Mar 2018

and in past tweets she's called the Parkland survivors Nazis, called Obama a jihadist, tweeted that liberals harvest human adrenal glands for drugs, tweeted that Palestinians keep slaves. She's really a vile human being.

obamanut2012

(26,094 posts)
41. The called Parkland survibor David Hogg a Nazi the night of her premiere
Sat Mar 31, 2018, 01:29 PM
Mar 2018

Her handler scrubbed it relatively quickly, but there are screenshots, and the reply tweets are still there.

Shame on anyone supporting this creep by watching her Trump-normalizing show.

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