Roseanne Barr plots TV comeback

Comedian Roseanne Barr refuses to remain canceled and is reportedly ready to get back into the television game.

Despite her fledgling rap career appearing quite promising, Barr is aiming to return to Hollywood with a show that won’t betray American values to virtue signal. The 72-year-old is reportedly in the process of creating a show that she says is about a family who “save America with guns, the Bible, petty crime and alcoholism.” She also said it will contain “very offensive ideas and a lot of swearing,” so those with a faint heart need not tune in. The show was written by Barr and Allan Stephan, and the pair are preparing to see who will take them up on it.

“The new series, which will star Barr and be four to six episodes in line with the U.K. comedy format, is “a cross between ‘The Roseanne Show’ and ‘The Sopranos,'” she says, and centers on a small-town farmer in Alabama who is “saving the United States from drug gangs and China.” The protagonist dabbles in growing and selling drugs like cannabis and magic mushrooms, Variety reported.

“It’s silly and out there,” Barr admits. “[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.”

While the concept may have not gotten a lot of play just a few years ago, the election of President Donald Trump signaled to many that American popular culture is at a turning point, with even popular Hollywood faces like Mel Gibson coming out to vocally support the left’s most hated enemy.

She explained that the show isn’t going to be a preachy, political platform but rather a program that mixes traditional values with old-fashioned, knee-slapping comedy.

“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.”

“If Hollywood doesn’t buy it, then I’m just gonna make it myself,” Barr 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.”

“Hollywood has made itself irrelevant to the American people. If they want to survive, they should work with the new president,” she said of Trump. “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.”

Sierra Marlee

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