Archives for October 2011

I've never been a fan of Roseanne Barr. Her voice is grating and quite frankly, she never struck me as funny. Just annoying. I never watched her television show. I did see her try to sing (or pretend to try to sing) our national anthem before a baseball game, but her rendition was truly awful, very offensive and literally painful to the ears. I happen to love the country that gave her the opportunity to earn ridiculous wealth with marginal talent and didn't find her butchering of the anthem the least bit amusing. However, I'm beginning to suspect that Roseanne has been a comic genius whom I've simply failed to appreciate. After she pulled off a deadpan delivery of this skit disguised as a live interview in which she suggests we send bankers of a certain income bracket to re-education camps or the guillotine. I was about ready to ROFLOL, as they say here on the internet. Something stopped me, though. Specifically, it was the suspicion she had really been dead serious. Now if it was a joke, it was a good one. She really had me going there for a minute -- actually, she's still got me going. Though Roseanne's rant wasn't as funny as Sunny's take on eating the rich, Sunny had been able to edit out her outtakes. Without even a hint of breaking a smile, Roseanne calmly called for the confiscation of wealth and decapitation (if necessary) of bankers with accrued wealth in excess of $100 million dollars who refused to fork it over. It's kind of scary to believe she might have been serious. But Shirley, she's couldn't have been, could … [Read more...]