Roseanne Barr | The Complete "Pioneers of Television" Interview | Pinoeers of Television Series
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Roseanne Barr sits down to discuss her secrets to comedy and her rise to fame.
Star: Roseanne Barr
Director: Steven J Boettcher
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I will always love her! She was a big part of my childhood. I didn’t have parents growing up but I had Roseanne.
Who didn’t love Roseanne. The best humor ever.
Ohhh, so sweet! I loved her too. Still do. My parents were there but not there so I know what you mean. Still love them tho.
@@dreamitable 💜
That’s really beautiful
This talented woman got a raw deal.
I'm Black American and I agree! Why hasn't Family Guy and South Park been Cancled! They Fu@ked her good. I miss her
Why a raw deal?
@@nastashavalentinodefranco2990 She's not dead.
@@picard4327 because she is a true comedian.she lived the American dream.
@@johndean4727 She got a raw deal because she's a comedian? If you watched the clip, she said she loves stand-up and prefers that over TV. What's the problem?
I will defend this woman till the day i die. Love you Roseanne. ❤️
God bless you & thank you from one of her fans. I feel the same! I had someone comment to me on one of her recent videos & because I thought highly of Roseanne & respect her & so 4th somebody asked me if I was drunk or on the medicine she was on that they thought she should be fired for. I told them to not disrespect me or her. My opinion wasn't going to change & I'm not going to listen to her haters & if they didn't like that I had her back & to skip my comment.
@@sweet_summer916 Its always ignorant sheep who go by what the tabloids say and dont know what theyre talking about.
Me too!
A brilliant, Brilliant woman. Fantastic entertainer, and truly one of a kind.
No words to describe the Genius in this amazing Lady , a true lagacy for comedians
ABSOLUTELY
I will always love Roseanne. I know she hit a rough patch, said a few things she shouldn't have, and things that the were just bad timing. But the fact is, she's a comedy queen, and always will be.
I miss Roseanne she's amazing
This woman never deserved the backlash she received. The disrespect from her fellow castmates for someone who built a career for them. Everyone changes, grows, evolves and makes mistakes to learn from. Have compassion and understanding. Together we are great, which is the irony of being 'woke' in our divisive cancel culture.
Well...
I don't care what anyone says about Roseanne nowadays, but I still love this woman. I grew up watching 'Roseanne.' It's my second all-time favorite sitcom. It's right behind 'I Love Lucy.'
I Love Lucy is overrated, but I agree with you on Roseanne.
Roseanne created one of the greatest sitcoms of all time. She’s the brains behind the show. It wouldn’t have been as groundbreaking and as successful without Roseanne’s ideas. She broke a lot of barriers and opened up discussion on so many important topics.
Many important topics such as racism, which people quickly seemed to forget before she was canceled.
@@felicecinque absolutely. I still believe today that Roseanne is not and never was a racist. She made a poor choice of words in that tweet, but it was wildly misunderstood and meant to convey something else than it appeared to. It’s sad how most of Hollywood, including her own cast mates, whose careers she was responsible for taking flight and also rejuvenating, turned their backs on her.
She speaks sublimely, profoundly deeply about stand up comedy. Thank you Rosanne!
She truly knows how to run her show. Roseanne raised me. That was my family.
When Americans bought into the "Brady Bunch" like family of the Cosby Show, her show came along and presented a more realistic portrayal of family relationships, the annoyances, the togetherness, the struggle of family and work, never an even balance. I knew and saw more families like the Connors and never knew anyone like the Huxtables. Lol
That was true, but that was original showrunner Matt Williams. Roseanne's standup was a lazy woman who watched soaps and ate junkfood all day. Matt Williams and Carsey-Werner, who had DONE the cosby show, wanted a blue collar and more realistic working class family. Those original scripts and house were all done before Roseanne. The show actually started to worsen as she got more and more control. If you recall, the first season had her in a factory with lots of other workers and even a potential union angle. There is a hard and fast rule in Hollywood that you NEVER talk about unions in network television. And thats of course why the eighties families all had really weird jobs that were never blue collar or organized. They didn't actually have a union but it was pretty close.
Then they dumped that idea and instead made her a waitress and ultimately a small business owner. The 'working class' was weeded out of it, only the working class money problems remained. Money problems are OK, so long as you don't talk about public policies to deal with them, like minimum wage. Not to mention Michigan is a state that has Citizen Initiatives which means at any time they could have joined other working class families and actually gotten political in forcing state wide referenda. But thats the other rule in network television, don't get political. You can show political problems, but thats it.
So all those those things actually predated Roseanne, you can watch the emmy interviews with carsey werner and Matt Williams to see that. She most definitely came at the right place at the right time, as she pretty much admits here. Thats doesn't take away from her talent at all, she was certainly one of the funniest of those eighties comics, and she was certainly a better actor than people like Jerry Seinfeld.
@@mikearchibald744 The show was based on her life as a working woman. Williams stole her life like The Conners stole her show in 2018. He was fired in the first season. Not all fans hate her later seasons, I like them more. She wrote about her struggle to control her creation. This interview is edited.
@Mike Archibald
The show not only started to worsen in the ratings since 1993-94 season (oddly enough after her plastic surgery indulgence was a bit obvious), but it flat out sucked.
Their scenarios would have been fine if they weren’t internally directed (by guess who?) to include over-the-top acting that started to resemble the Bundys on Married With Children nonsense.
Also I don’t think that it was a good idea to advocate and achieve Tom Arnold as a writer for the show.
I tried watching it up to the 1994-95 season but I gave up on it. The show went from entertainment to boring @ss silly.
@@maxmulsanne7054 Well, some think the slide started after the first season when Matt Williams the showrunner left. As I said, he and the producers were the ones looking for the grounded feel. It did benefit from the fact that like Seinfeld and the Simpsons it was at least unique.
It also had jokes which at least were better than most. But thats what they say in Hollywood, in fact I even seen a screenwriter tag on CZcams about it. The first season was about the plot-a blue collar family. But as this screenwriter says, people won't remember your plot but they will remember your characters. To my mind that kills a LOT of shows.
@@Ran-33 No, it wasn't. First of all she wasn't a 'working woman', she was a comedian ever since 79. She never worked at a factory, she never owned a small business.
The show was already pitched and being worked on before they even MET her. She was also pitched Married ...With CHildren, which at the time was going to be her and Sam Kinison. But she had terrible representation who said she was going to make movies.
She had never even MET Williams or evne spoken to him to even KNOW her life. Her act was completely different and was based on being a spoiled housewife, NOTHING like what the show became.
Thats not to say that later on she didn't try to champion at least some of those values, but its completely wrong to state that the show was based on her life OR her act. Even she doesn't say that.
I love Roseanne .. she’s legend.
Roseanne is the best! She loves America and is a representation of America. Roseanne is a class act and a woman of great influence and heart. Love you Roseanne!!
I recently rewatched Roseanne. The genius of this woman is unreal. Would've loved to see it continue.
The original series was genius. The reboot is bland. I just re-watched some old episodes of the original last week and yes: it was flawlessly written, diving into comedy and drama seamlessly. Can't say the same for the reboot, which is self-conscious and unfunny.
@@transp0rter1 Agree the reboot stinks
She’s sorta gone off the deep end in her old age on her nut farm in Hawaii. She sometimes does rants on her CZcams
I remember thinking finally a real family on tv. When I was a kid I didn't see anyone on tv that looked like mine. Family ties , Cosby show, growing pains, all the mom's were very professional college educated houses were always clean, they had perfect hair clothes, they had no friends except their children. I also remember the children were the stars of the shows and all the storylines we're about them, except for a few bread crumbs they sent to the adults once in awhile. Rosanne was about her and her husband which I loved. They really did her wrong in the end all the unforgiving self righteous Hollywood.
You never saw Good Times? Or was that "territory" not right for you?
@@chrisray6496 of course I saw good times but im talking the 80s when sitcoms changed . I related to what's happening! and one day at a time because kids were being raised by single moms but again that was the 70s and only watched that on reruns.
Folks, there's a reason why "The Conners" SUCKS!!!!! It's because Roseanne is not involved--in front of the camera and behind the camera. I personally think that she was a victim of today's sensitive, politically correct, whiny, you offended me world we now live. I first discovered the "Roseanne" show through my mom, a black woman. The show attracted viewers of all races. I became curious one night after hearing her constantly chuckle while watching tv in my parent's bedroom. "Mom, what are you laughing at," I said. "It's a new show called 'Roxanne.'" :)
You are so right about it
Sucks? It's remained on air for years after she left.
@@picard4327 LOL. Dude, just because something is still on air doesn't mean it's good.
@@ericervin4778 You have your opinion. The ratings of viewers have kept it on for several years after Roseanne left.
The way I feel right now I don't care if she likes Trump or if she's understandably mad at her old cast but I've been watching her DVDs from back in the day every night and that is up there with I Love Lucy as one of the best she's a damn good actress and you feel like you're just eavesdropping on the Connors and I found myself crying sometimes as much as laughing that show has heart and she should be damn proud of that show and the mark she's left on this world
Still can't believe they cancelled her for something like that
I was 12 yrs old when Roseanne premiered. It was a show like nothing I have ever seen and it felt “real”. Many years later I watched the first 3 seasons and got a whole new appreciation for Roseanne. I can’t imagine how tough it was for her to get her every single episode on and the behind the scenes, network executives blood suckers, a man’s world and come out on top regardless and going against the grain. She is a game changer.
Roseanne Barr is a genius. While things were definitely tumultuous behind the scenes of the original run of her show, she fought to have the show be real as opposed to glib and really gave a voice to the working class. IMO, seasons 1-6 of ROSEANNE are the show's best years. I enjoyed the revival season as well as THE CONNERS. I wish Roseanne all the best.
Roseanne Barr is a genius ? That's laughable !
@@yvonnehaggart4788 I'll second the genius status.
In her words
"Not dead"
We fans are grateful and seek a current wide road you authored, shared with similar influencers who can
I think it would be interesting to have the date the interview was recorded. For instance (currently watching), was this recorded before or after she was ousted from HER series? If it was before, it needs a follow up interview.
I love her and I must say that I LOVE her "National Anthem." 🏆 Rocked it, mama
Yes Love Work Here In
Oakland.Ca 😀
Love her and in my opinion she is more beautiful now than she has ever been! 😍🤗😎
After losing Norm and Bob, It's important to let Roseanne know we love her.
Roseanne is the best and funniest comedian out there! Her sitcoms have been the best. I was so disappointed when “The Woke” ran her off her own show! I’m glad she’s coming back! I will always watch whatever her project is! Let’s see another sitcom Roseanne!! Thank you Roseanne for being real!!
We love you so so so!!!! much!!! ROSEANNE!!!💙💙💙💙
She made a mistake ( whether it was prescribed drugs or not ) but , I still respect her … I’d like to see her as Roseanne but maybe a ghost - would be funny and maybe put it all behind her …. I wish her health and happiness 💛
Didn't hear about this until now. Did this just come out? I broke it up into 2 parts and finished watching tonight. She's definitely a trailblazer (widener). I enjoyed hearing what she had to say. Much love xo
Rosanna Welcome back your show was a classic I was so excited when the new one came along I can truthfully say I have not watched one single upside of the Conners
Proud deplorable who loves her 🇺🇸❤️
I love 💕 Roseanne she's a down to earth and says it like it is. Just loved the Roseanne show. I quite watching it after she left.🇨🇦💓
Loved your interview 🙏🤗♥️
I do remember watching an interview with Carsey and Warner and they said they were developing this show and were interested in Roseanne for the project. If you watch the Carsey interviews, you can see how difficult it is to get show off the ground. I thought the network created the show but apparently a production company creates it and pitches to the network. Once the show became #1 and Roseanne's name was on it, she was the Queen Bee. And Carsey and Warner brought in the high quality actors to help Roseanne. Whatever the case, this was a great show. I didn't understand why they went with certain plot changes and devices. There seemed to be an effort to keep Jackie down and out by ending her career as a cop. And I thought Roseanne once said that she wanted changes after Season 1 because they were only seen sitting around eating. Also, taking Roseanne out of the factory cut down on the extras and brought the show back to the house and the core characters.
A great writer! Wonderful comedian
It would be great if we could hear the questions.
Thank you Roseanne for all you did for us. We love you and we miss you.
It's good this is on record. It was her show in every way. Terrible the way certain people took this from her, just for a quick payday. They knew who she really was (not racist in any way) and threw her under the bus anyway.
Some of the higher ups tried to ruin her but, did not succeed. She's still a fire cracker and loved so much!! I adore you, Rosie!!!!
Like this woman especially her laugh! :)
I love watching Roseanne and Archie Bunker they would trade barbs if they would had met
Ur awesome Roseanne a class act😁🇨🇦🇨🇦
Until she met Twitter Roseanne was a canny mind. Still remember her first Carson show and talking about it in grade school the next day.
Until she met Instagram Madonna was a canny mind
I absolutely love you and get you Roseanne ❤❤🙏
Great interview, hope your well I miss you.
A thoughtful and very erudite lady - not how I imagined Roseanne to be. She seems very grounded now and has never looked better. Good for her.
LOVE ROSEANNE 💗💗💗
Enjoyed this. Thanks. 👀
Looking really great. Love her!!
Love her. Hate cancel culture. It's so sad she can't believe & think what she feels. This world is a mess.
Yeah. People thinks she a big racist, just because she supports someone. Who the media BELIEVES, to be racist. But truly isn’t.
@@AMFWrestling he was he is and he always will be. That's uncomfortable for you because it forces you to assess your own views through the prism of this man you obviously like. Sorry, but it's true and its one of the main reasons he lost in 2020.
@@Irishgui83 They love that vile man because his inner ugliness perfectly represents their inner ugliness. Scared, angry people who are afraid of a changing world.
@@frankducky6130 with Biden, democrats proved that they’re the racist ones. Biden has more evidence in his history of being racist, black people understand that.
@@Ran-33 87 percent to 13 percent in the 2020 election. But yeah, black people understand that.
Thats so funny these writers went to Yale and Harvard and didn't know what lunch meat was.
No one in Hollywood has done for the working class what Roseanna has; and for that she will always be my hero!!
Roseanne was a great show about feminism. King of Queens, Everybody Loves Raymond, and According to Jim are sexist.
Love her!!
Expressing radical ideas in a down to earth manner. I love it. Incredible woman !
U've gotta feature Sandi Bernhard 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Roseanne IS a great comedian and a wonderful person!
You people do know she has a CZcams channel right? She does live streams and post videos I've actually chatted with her in the chat room... Where y'all been? Smh 🤦
Love the Rosanne show, I grew up with it. From Australia 🇦🇺
Excellent.
She’s a normal well rounded woman. I like her.
💗
❤️❤️❤️
What year was this filmed?
I LOVE ROSANNE. ❤️
Was this interview taped from many years ago
She is frickin smart.
The volume is too low.
I have to hold my phone to my ear to hear. The commercials are the right volume but I am not here for them. I'm here to hear Roseanne.
I think she will be back in some form. She's a very creative person. Regular TV is not an option. If she wants it bad enough, she'll be back. She was a genius on that show. She's an actress and she'll create another character.
💜💜💜💜💜💜
When was this aired ? Before or after her wild tweeting and having her show canceled ?
I never watch the Conners anymore. Not since they took off Rosanne. Everyone makes mistakes. And if we can’t learn to forgive and move on we’re not going to ever be able to move forward as people.❤️🖤❤️
That show came back with every woke position represented. It’s was so dumb and improbable. The Connors is so not funny and they can’t cancel it yet because they don’t want to prove that Roseanne carried that show.
If you believe in forgiveness, then why are you punishing the HUNDREDS of other actors and crew members by not watching their show?
@@kattengat2 You do realize Roseanne was on the show when she had a biracial granddaughter and a gender fluid grandson, right?
@@picard4327 First of all I no longer get the channel. Second I don’t like the way she was written out of her show. And third I’ll watch whatever I please.
@@amykrumbholz6446 I guess cancel culture is more important than forgiveness to you. Your choice to cancel.
it seems like this interview occurred prior to the second version of Roseanne and her subsequent scandal. anyone know when it was taped?
I like roseanne , i don’t get racist vibes from her at all overtly.
overtly.
She's not racist. She's imperfect like all of us. She made a mistake, but she's not racist.
@@sandy-ke1kr, I am friendly with some of her children and I know she's not anywhere near perfect. but there is no denying she made a mistake that is racist. SHE COMPARED A BLACK WOMAN TO AN APE. i'm sorry but that is wrong on any level you try to justify or spin.
@@memostillthebomb I didn't say that what she did was right. It was wrong. She did face it and apologized for it and I think that they should have given her another chance. Everyone deserves a second chance. It's the only way people grow and become better. Shaming them or cancelling them does nothing to stop any type of racism. It just goes underground. I just think that she deserved a second chance. She's not just her one mistake. We all make really bad mistakes and we all deserve to grow from them and not do them again. I don't agree with cancelling people or punishing them forever. That's just not right. Since, I'm a person of faith, I'm so thankful for all the chances God gave me and all the times I was forgiven. I believe in forgiveness and giving another person an opportunity to make it right. Just how I see it. It's not a spin.
@@sandy-ke1kr sounds like a spin when you bring faith and god into it. but you do you.
Love Rosanne and her show. The Connor's show is pathetic
One of a kind..its a shame that the industry destroyed everything much like they're doing for us average folk and theyll keep doing it til their time is up couldn't come soon enough
In my opinion the Roseanne show was great from Season one to Season four/five, having the Connor`s win the lottery ruined the show.
If only she would have stayed off social media,she would still be in "Roseanne" and there would be no such show as "The Conners" you watch her old shows on DVD or on CZcams..you really see what we're missing out on!
She is such a pleasure when shes not talking about politics.
So any celebrity who talks about left leaning politics is ok - but if it’s not your politics, they should be silenced? That’s the pattern with you libs, you hate freedom of speech unless it’s you talking.
No, not 'any' celebrity. I mean her specifically.
I've always liked the original ROSEANNE series, and the brief revival a few years back. Of the original show, I thought the first three seasons were the best, just as Roseanne says here. I didn't like it once Darlene went goth, Becky changed faces, and everyone became gay. I just like the more organic feel of the earlier seasons over the more sitcomy later seasons.
Agreed.
Miss you
Love Rosann 💗
I will keep saying that Roseanne's Tweet was a mistake
I know it was a mistake
I forgive her
But she never should've been cancelled
She made billions for ABC
But now The Connors is on ABC
It doesn't give that much Sky High Ratings like Roseanne did
If they resurrect Dan they call resurrect Roseanne
And if ABC does ever decide to resurrect Roseanne from the dead I have a suggestion on what a future Connor episode would explain how she survived,
The Connors future episode if they resurrect Roseanne:
She faked her death to avoid criminal charges for illegally borrowing the medicine she needed for her knee
And traveled away with a new alias in a foreign country
Then the police station drops there investigation on her
And then she decides to come back home since she was cleared and explained everything to the family at first they are angry for her faking her own death because they we're left devastated and shocked at her death, but later apologizes to the whole family and said it was a rotton thing to do they all later make up.
That's what I believe what would happen if ABC decides to forgive Roseanne and resurrect her and put her on The Connors
Do you all think that is A good idea?
Let me know!
Is this interview from 2021?
Love you Rosie, but you did not at all invent grunge. That was wild and soaring many years before your show. ❤️
I love @roseanneworld
I miss her
We all know that Roseanne had/has issues -- and often says the wrong thing, but she is responsible for one of the best sitcoms in American history. I tried to watch The Connors, but even with Roseanne -- it wasn't up to the standards of the original.
All ways love you,thay had there day but you are forever.
❤️👍
Loving Roseanne despite her politicaly incorrect and zionist comments which put her in trouble and loosing her own show. In a country preaching freedom of speech such blacklisting is astonishing. In my humble opinion she's still an icon.
Alan Setphans didn't write one word of anyy episode, Unlesss you winced at it. Then he propbably had something to do with it.
Roseanne wants you to believe her show was ground-breaking, when most of its topical storylines had ALREADY been explored by All in the Family and/or Maude.
Maude had a big clean house and nice hair and clothes.
No refreshing to see a comedian who doesn’t feel like they have to be funny every second!
Sadly, she fell deep into QAnon, Trump, and conspiracy theories and ruined her chance to make a TV comeback.
🤡 imagine thinking they're still theories
She wasn't into Qanon... she has the freedom to choose support any candidate she wishes..I say that as a Democrat myself.. this is American Democracy with 1st amendment among others, not a Communist, Totalitarian State... cancel culture undermines over 200yrs of Democracy unless you're a "Lefty" spouting it.
Roseanne is human. I like a lot about her and dislike some. Her show was extremely uneven, some shows hilarious and some awful. I admired her comedy and courage but she definitely could've used an acting coach and one good friend to confide in.
Yeah I guess not knowing what lunchmeat is is really the the bar for intelligence thanks Roseanne
It shows the divide between the elite and the people
@@Patrick3183 , some people do not eat processed food.
@@dietrichjoanne and some people can't afford non processed food
@@citydweller99, healthy food is not always more expensive. Eggs, carrots, celery, oatmeal, and chicken are inexpensive.
Roseanne i hear you..
But are you really gearing
*US* 🤔🧐🥺🤔🧐🥺
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Huge talent .I think she meant move the path to right...being a big Trumper...she's amazing though..otherwise