Roseanne Barr announced she will be shopping around a new, “offensive” comedy series, marking her first possible role since she was fired from ABC’s Roseanne reboot in 2018 over controversial comments she had made.
Speaking to Variety, the controversial comedy star described the series as “a cross between The Roseanne Show and The Sopranos.”
The series, which reportedly comprises four to six episodes, will follow the antics of a farmer growing cannabis and magic mushrooms in Alabama while “saving the United States from drug gangs and China.”
Barr described the series as “silly and out there.”
“[It will contain] very offensive ideas and a lot of swearing,” she said. “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.”
Barr was a comedy legend who headlined her own series, Roseanne, from 1988 to 1997, before it was later renewed by ABC in 2017. The revival was successful but short-lived, however, as Barr was fired from the show for referring to then-President Barack Obama’s adviser Valerie Jarrett as the offspring of the “Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes” on Twitter. She has since become an outspoken conservative and a major supporter for President Trump.
Her character was killed off the show, after which the family’s antics continued in a follow-up series The Conners, which is still on the air.
When asked if she would work with the network again for her new show, Barr replied, “Fuck no.”
She reportedly plans to execute the show on her own if it doesn’t get picked up by a network or streamer.
“If Hollywood doesn’t buy it, then I’m just gonna make it myself,” she adds. “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.”
Barr complained that “Hollywood has made itself irrelevant to the American people.”
She later added, “I don’t give a fuck either way. I’d like to get paid handsomely to bring another shit fucking network back from doom as I’ve done twice for ABC. But I just don’t see how they would keep their nose out of my business. We’ll see. If not, I’ll just go somewhere else and put it on my own website.”
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