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DVD Review: Roseanne Barr: Blonde and Bitchin'
by R.J. Carter
Published: November 27, 2006
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Country: USA
Release Date: November 7, 2006
Distributor: HBO Home Video
Cast:
· Roseanne Barr
Grade: C+
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Thomas Wolfe said it best: You can't go home again.
For the stand-up comic who has made the transition to television sit-com, going back to stand-up is a tricky deal at best. Because, while the stand-up routine may have been what earned you the television spot, maintaining a television spot for any respectable length of time tends to pull you away from the roots of your former stand-up. The end result: it's harder to be funny.
Not that Roseanne Barr isn't funny in her return to the mic after ten years spent doing Roseanne, a situational comedy about a blue-collar family trying to make ends meet. She's just funny about things that aren't all that funny in the first place. Like Republican-bashing. Or throwing stones at that old reliable stand-by, the Catholic priests ("A lot of them started out as altar boys, and they just got sucked into it.") Her biggest complaint about the world after spending ten years finishing the Roseanne show was that it seemed to have been dumbed down. (Perhaps they had all spent the last ten years watching Roseanne?)
Roseanne Live: The former domestic goddess -- minus the
domesticity -- performs her new schtick live at The Comedy
Store.
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Continuing her stand-up stint at The Comedy Store, Roseanne does get some chuckles when she sings (!) a parody of "My Way", in which she apologizes for launching Tom Arnold's career. She also goes off at length about prescription drug use ("Drugs are bad -- like Viagra. Some things are just supposed to end.") She joins Tom Cruise in the front against Ritalin ("Nobody should be on Ritalin... except maybe Tom Cruise. Just to take the edge off.") and basically declares that the war on drugs is "a war on poor people on street drugs waged by rich people on prescription drugs."
Politics, religion -- all the main standbys of the comedian, many of whom hit the target with great eclat -- are drive-by victims of the comedian, who ends her session by channeling a higher power to answer questions from the audience before (yikes!) doffing her robe and doing a song-and-dance number in a Madonna-esque leotard.
Bonus features on this disc include a staged confrontation between Roseanne and her makeup artist and a staged session with her confidence building specialist. The unstaged portions include a brief post-show sitdown with Roseanne and some of her friends, and an eight minute interview with the former domestic goddess. And there are a paucity of still pics taken from the standup set.
Audio can be set to either English 5.1 or English 2.0
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