Roseanne Barr making show about family who ‘save…
Roseanne Barr is plotting her Hollywood comeback after being canceled.
The outspoken comic, 72, revealed she’s making a show about a family who “save America with guns, the Bible, petty crime and alcoholism.”
She additionally warned it’s going to include “very offensive ideas and a lot of swearing.”
Barr attends the “Mr. Birchum” sequence premiere. Getty Images for DailyWire+
Barr speaks during a Donald Trump rally in 2023. AFP through Getty Images
Barr informed Variety that she wrote the comedy sequence with “Roseanne” and “Arli$$” alum Allan Stephan, including they’re on the point of store the show round city.
The actress will star within the sequence, which can be about 4 to 6 episodes.
Barr described the comedy as “a cross between ‘The Roseanne Show’ and ‘The Sopranos,’” telling the outlet it’ll focus on a small-town farmer in Alabama who is “saving the United States from drug gangs and China.”
This isn’t any average farmer, although.
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Trump embraces Barr during a taping of her discuss show in Manhattan on Nov. 17, 1998. Newsday RM through Getty Images
Barr shared that the farmer grows and sells medicine like magic mushrooms and hashish.
“It’s silly and out there,” she stated. “[It will contain] very offensive ideas and a lot of swearing. I live with my daughter and her husband and their six children on a farm. And they have goats running through their house and stuff. It’s based on my life as a farmer in Hawaii. They save America with guns, the Bible, petty crime and alcoholism. It’s kind of like the Coen brothers thing.”
She teased that the family in her new sequence may have similarities to the Conners from “Roseanne.”
“Roseanne” solid (from left): Laurie Metcalf, Michael Fishman, Barr, Goodman and Sara Gilbert. ©Carsey-Werner Co/Courtesy Everett Collection
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Barr on “Roseanne” in 1992. ©Carsey-Werner Co/Courtesy Everett Collection
“There’s a scene where I have to strap myself into a corset. My granddaughter helps me, and then I go into town to flirt with all the shopkeepers that are just grotesque people,” she said. “It’s just kind of a cartoony kind of thing.”
Barr doesn’t count on a bidding struggle, revealing that “if Hollywood doesn’t buy it, then I’m just gonna make it myself.”
She added, “Does anybody in [Hollywood] like America or the people who watch TV? Because the people who watch TV would really like to see a show where working-class people win against the enemies of America.”
Trump and Barr in November 2024. officialroseannebarr/Instagram
Barr. ©IFC Films/Courtesy Everett Collection
One community she doesn’t count on to show curiosity within the sequence is ABC, who fired her and canceled “Roseanne” in 2018 after she tweeted that Michelle Obama’s former aide Valerie Jarrett was the offspring of the “Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes.”
Barr later apologized to Jarrett and deleted her Twitter account, however the harm had already been accomplished.
When requested if she would take into account ABC if it confirmed curiosity, she replied, “F–k no.”
The Post reached out to ABC for remark.
Barr within the “Daddy’s Home” music video. TomMacDonald/YouTube
Barr within the “Daddy’s Home” music video with rapper Tom MacDonald. TomMacDonald/YouTube
Barr believes Donald Trump’s profitable the presidency proves that viewers wish to devour the content material that Hollywood has but to make.
“Hollywood has made itself irrelevant to the American people,” she stated. “If they want to survive, they should work with the new president. American people elected him in an overwhelming victory. They should get back in touch with [them] and make some money, which I don’t know if they do or not ’cause they’ve proven to be ideologues rather than [business people]. What shocks me is the fact that they prefer to lose money and then explain that to the shareholders who apparently have no problem with that.”
The MAGA supporter shared that whereas she’s been a loud advocate for Trump — most lately, dropping the music video “Daddy’s Home” with Canadian rapper Tom MacDonald forward of the inauguration — Barr isn’t on the president’s velocity dial.
“The Trump administration regards me as a loose cannon, which I am,” Barr shared. “I’m not a party line person for anyone or anything except myself. The Trump staff or whoever runs it, they’re a little afraid of me. I am a loudmouth comedian, so I understand it. But it really hurt my feelings. But what are you gonna do?”
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