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Roseanne Barr: Blonde and Bitchin'

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It will do a heart good to find that Roseanne Barr is still funny.

Barr careens around society, skewering religion, diets, mental illness and drugs, getting old and parenthood. And, yes, like many other frustrated liberal comics, Barr can't resist explaining her hatred for Pres. Bush.

In an interview featurette on the disc, Barr says 9/11 was the impetus for getting off her butt and performing her new material. That also explains her show-stopping, fear-conquering finale, with a courageous kimono-dropping tapdance and her own take on Frank Sinatra's "My Way."

Don't miss the extras, especially two seemingly improvisational sketches that find Barr backstage before the show as straight woman to a heavily-made-up transvestite makeup artist and an absurd motivational coach who mixes so many metaphors, numbers and symbols that his message is deliciously stupid.

It seems that since her tv show Roseanne has been lacking in her standup. Her old stuff was hilarious but then getting a cable tv show seemed to chang all that.

Yet she is absolutely hilarious in this special. At times she seems to be too preachy with some of her material (namely the government) but since I see both sides of things it didn't bother me so much. A lot of her material was on the floor funny but some was just boring, unfunny and trying too hard to be witty and failing.

Overall if you like her and her stuff and can laugh at a plethora of subjects, then watch this. If you can't take a joke at face value, stay away; it might offend you and your beliefs.

I was happy to see her back doing comedy! I rented this dvd from netflix and I was cracking up. Roseanne reminds us all at the end of her routine to not live in fear as she sings and dances in a tight body suit.

A lot different than her tv show, but imo funnier. Raunchy and political, but insightful and hilarious. If you like George Carlin in his later years, then I would highly recommend this underrated stand-up performance.

What happened to Roseanne?

Just look at the other reviews and it will tell you that this cricket-chirping static snoozefest is horrible. "The liberal goddess," says one. "I had a problem with the conservative audience of jerks," announces another. These people aren't judging this show on its humor, they're applauding its slogans. (You people should go check out Margaret Cho's lame DVDs since she's another incredibly unfunny comic who just bashes everything left of Hollywood).

I recently watched the Rodney Dangerfield DVD collection and saw Roseanne's debut on one of Rodney's HBO specials. She was fresh, funny, she had an instant persona.

I have no idea who this woman is now. Just another Left Coast limousine liberal scoring points on a pay channel where Bill Maher and Bunny Ranch prostitutes reign supreme. I laugh at any comic that's funny, no matter what political affiliation they may be...they just have to be funny.

If Roseanne hadn't appeared so self-righteous and arrogant about her screeds (one could hardly call them jokes), I would've felt sorry for her.