Roseanne Barr challenges Hollywood to give her another shot after controversial 'Roseanne' exit
Roseanne Barr challenges Hollywood to give her another shot after controversial 'Roseanne' exit
Eight years after she was fired from her hit reboot of "Roseanne," Roseanne Barr is looking for a second chance.
The 73-year-old has self-financed a new show called "Meemaw: A Modern Day Fable."
Barr told The Hollywood Reporter this week that she's shopping the sitcom to "Anybody who wants a number one show and is smart enough to take a number one show."
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"I dont know why they dont want a number one show and why they hate a number one show and why they would destroy a number one show," she said of Hollywood. "But if they do want a number one show, I got it."
The "Roseanne" reboot was a huge hit with tens of millions of viewers each week, and it finished its first season as the number one primetime sitcom in the 18-49 demographic, according to Variety.
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Shes also pitched "Meemaw" to but without success.
"I dont know why he hasnt called me or returned my calls," she admitted of the trillionaire. "I mean, of all people on earth, Im the one he should call, but I dont know."
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"Meemaw" is about the matriarch of a mixed-race family in Texas who are preppers, which she describes as "Somebody whos prepared of the end of the world."
Its partially based on her life.
"Im a prepper. I live in Texas. Everybodys a prepper here," she said.
The show also stars Drea de Matteo, Omar Gooding and who plays Barrs love interest.
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"Im in love with him and I wish he would leave his wife and marry me," she joked. "I enjoyed making out with him so much that I wrote extra scenes where we would make out."
Barr said she hasnt shown the sitcom to anyone yet.
"But it is so funny," she said. "Its the funniest s--- Ive ever done, and I had a ball and I play a really wacky old lady this time."
On her firing from the reboot, Barr insists she didnt intend her about former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett to be racist.
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"It was not a racist tweet," she said. "It wasnt about race, it was about politics. What it really was a three-month conversation between myself and journalists in Iran who were talking about attacks mostly on Iranian women in the streets."
After the tweet, she apologized, and she claimed ABC




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