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RFK Jr.: I Staged a Bear Cub's Death in Central Park

That's the independent presidential candidate's latest odd headline, on incident from a decade ago

(Newser) - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has earned his fair share of baffling headlines in recent months, but the New York Times carried a particularly odd one on Sunday: "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Admits He Left a Dead Bear in Central Park." The independent presidential candidate himself was the source...

Teaser Ad Out Ahead of Roseanne's Comeback
Roseanne's
Stand-Up
Comeback
Is Near
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Jan 30, 2023 11:54 AM CST

Roseanne's Stand-Up Comeback Is Near

Comedian's first special in almost 20 years will stream next month on Fox Nation

(Newser) - Roseanne Barr's first stand-up special in almost two decades starts streaming next month on Fox Nation, reports Deadline . A short teaser clip for Cancel This! aired during Sunday's NFC championship game. (Watch it here .) In it, Barr asks the crowd, "Has anybody else been fired recently?"...

Roseanne Barr Is Returning to TV
Roseanne Barr Is
Returning to TV
Sep 20, 2022 6:27 PM CDT

Roseanne Barr Is Returning to TV

Her comedy special will air on Fox Nation next year

(Newser) - Four years after a racist tweet got her fired from ABC's reboot of Roseanne, Roseanne Barr is apparently ready for a comeback attempt. The Fox Nation streaming service says the 69-year-old will appear in an hourlong comedy special, A Roseanne Comedy Special, which is expected to debut in the...

Delaware School Sorry for Serving Up Roseanne

Seaford High School played it before a volleyball game

(Newser) - "The Star-Spangled Banner" isn't an unusual feature of high school pregame festivities, but Roseanne Barr's screeching 1990s rendition surprised spectators at one Delaware volleyball game, the AP reports. The News Journal of Wilmington reports the Seaford School District apologized Wednesday for the shock served at Seaford High...

Barr, Clay Plan Tour as 'Mr. and Mrs. America'

'She's an original, I'm an original,' he says

(Newser) - It's been a few decades since the Diceman's heyday, but he's still touring—and this time it's with Roseanne Barr. The two controversial comics, who performed together in Las Vegas in March, announced their "Mr and Mrs America" comedy tour Sunday, Variety reports. It will...

Roseanne Barr: Sarah Gilbert 'Destroyed My Life'
Roseanne Barr:
Sara Gilbert
'Destroyed My Life'
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Mar 22, 2019 9:15 AM CDT

Roseanne Barr: Sara Gilbert 'Destroyed My Life'

She pins blame on tweet co-star made in wake of show's cancellation

(Newser) - "Roseanne Barr Just Can't Shut Up," reads the headline of a lengthy Washington Post interview with the actress—a piece that looks at the "unusual, behind-the-scenes battle" by ABC and Roseanne producers that began at the end of 2017 to "protect their TV property" in...

Roseanne Barr Finds Controversy Again

She goes after MeToo accusers as 'hos'

(Newser) - Roseanne Barr is making headlines yet again over controversial statements, this time in regard to the MeToo movement, Sen. Kamala Harris, and Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused the Supreme Court's Brett Kavanaugh of assault. The comments came during an interview with conservative radio host Candace Owens. The...

Barr Has New Theory on Roseanne Cancellation

She say it was because she supports Israel

(Newser) - Comedian and divisive former television star Roseanne Barr says her sitcom was canceled last year because of backlash against her support for Israel. Barr spoke Monday at an event in Tel Aviv and said she had been "BDS-ed" by television network ABC, the AP reports. BDS refers to a...

Year's Most Notable Quote Comes From Rudy Giuliani
Year's Most Notable Quote
Comes From Rudy Giuliani
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Dec 15, 2018 12:00 PM CST

Year's Most Notable Quote Comes From Rudy Giuliani

Yale ranks his 'the truth isn't the truth' line as No. 1 for 2018

(Newser) - Yale Law School is out with its annual list of the year's 10 most notable quotes, and it is not President Trump but one of his attorneys, Rudy Giuliani, that has the No. 1 spot. "The truth isn't the truth." Giuliani uttered it to NBC's...

Trump Rips Into Mika After Controversy
The Heat on
Mika Brzezinski
Isn't Going Away
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Dec 13, 2018 1:54 PM CST

The Heat on Mika Brzezinski Isn't Going Away

Co-anchor was not on the air Thursday after apologizing for remark seen as homophobic

(Newser) - Mika Brzezinski was not on the air Thursday, a day after she caused a ruckus by referring to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as a "butt boy." Her Morning Joe co-host— and husband —Joe Scarborough said Brzezinski was "off with her family, a long-planned family event,...

Roseanne Barr Slams ABC After Debut of The Conners

'I AIN'T DEAD,' she tweeted

(Newser) - Spoiler alert, for those who have seen neither the debut episode of The Conners nor Roseanne Barr's spoiler last month . As Barr revealed, her character from Roseanne is killed off in the spinoff, which begins two or three weeks after the death of the family matriarch, CNN reports. A...

Barr Reveals the Fate of Her Roseanne Character

She's not happy about The Conners storyline

(Newser) - If you don't want to see a spoiler for the first season of Roseanne spinoff The Conners, now is a good time to find a happier story to read . Roseanne Barr, who was fired by ABC after posting a racist tweet earlier this year, has confirmed that the door...

Norm Macdonald Slammed for Down Syndrome Remark

In explaining #MeToo remarks, he suggests people with condition lack empathy

(Newser) - Norm Macdonald attempted to explain his controversial #MeToo comments in an interview with Howard Stern Wednesday—and managed to make things worse. The comedian landed himself in a fresh controversy after insulting people with Down syndrome in an effort to express empathy for victims of sexual misconduct, Yahoo reports. "...

Tonight Show Nixes Norm Macdonald After #MeToo Comments

Comic defended Louis CK, Roseanne Barr, said he's glad Me Too has 'slowed down a bit' to 'THR'

(Newser) - A Hollywood Reporter interview with comic Norm Macdonald broke Tuesday, and it ended up getting him pulled from the Tonight Show. Among the criticisms of Macdonald's THR sit-down: he criticized Hannah Gadsby's Nanette special without seeing it, and he didn't realize how bad racism was until he...

Roseanne Barr: I Might Be Moving to Israel for Good

The devout Jew says she's going there to study and possibly to live

(Newser) - Roseanne Barr may be killed off in the reboot of her ABC sitcom, and the controversial comedian says she won't be tuning in. Instead, TMZ reports she's decided to be in Israel for the fall premiere of the newly re-named The Conners. Barr, whose eponymous series was canceled...

John Goodman Reveals Fate of Roseanne Character

Says his character, Dan Conner, will 'be mopey and sad because his wife's dead' in spinoff

(Newser) - ABC hasn't officially revealed yet how it will deal with the absence of Roseanne Barr when the The Conners spinoff debuts in October. But star John Goodman may have just done so: In an interview with the UK's Sunday Times , Goodman says this of his own character, Dan...

What Would Roseanne Tell Valerie Jarrett? Get a Haircut

Roseanne talked with Sean Hannity Thursday night

(Newser) - In Roseanne Barr's first national TV interview since her infamous tweet about Valerie Jarrett ended her sitcom career, she delivered a more coherent version of what she has been saying on YouTube . She told Sean Hannity that she is not a racist and she is "so sad that...

That Odd Roseanne Barr Clip? Lots More on the Way

She's planning a talk show of sorts to air on her YouTube channel

(Newser) - Roseanne Barr resurfaced with a jarring video Friday in which she screams, "I thought the b---- was white!" in reference to her infamous Valerie Jarrett tweet. Now TMZ reports that we can expect a lot more of Roseanne, and largely unfiltered. Son Jake Pentland tells the website that...

Roseanne in Video: 'I Thought the B---- Was White!'

She posts bizarre video about her Valerie Jarrett tweet

(Newser) - She's defended herself —and told others not to —in numerous tweets. Now, Roseanne Barr has turned to YouTube to explain her infamous tweet about former Obama official Valerie Jarrett. Sort of. In a video posted Thursday to Barr's account, the comedian is seen smoking a cigarette...

Roseanne: I Got 'Really Good Offer to Go Back on TV'

Barr tells Rabbi Schmuley Boteach she might accept, 'but we'll see'

(Newser) - Roseanne Barr, apparently, isn't going anywhere. In a new conversation with Rabbi Schmuley Boteach, the comedian says she has been offered new projects since she got the boot from Roseanne over her racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett. "I thought signing off of my own life’s work and...

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