I was watching my Roku and an ad came up, it was a Fox Nation ad.
And they said that a legendary comedian was finally returning and
they showed them from behind.
It was very hard to tell who it was.
It was just sort of like a brown spot with some spikes and then I heard the voice and
I knew instantly that annoying I knew who it was.
And here it is.
Roseanne Barr's Cancel This show is coming to Fox Nation on February 13th.
Cancel This, she named it because I guess
Triggered was finally taken enough that they didn't call it triggered again.
It's gonna debut on February 13th.
It's gonna be Barr's first comedy special since Blond and
Bitchin aired on HBO back in 2006.
It was taped in front of a live audience at Houston's Cullen Theater and
the streaming services gonna release a special called Who is Roseanne Barr in
conjunction with the project.
Definitely a confidence move when you have to have a documentary that explains who
the person is.
Anyway, here's the issue with that.
There's multiple issues.
So the first one is, she is like, well no, I'm not gonna say every right
winger because almost every comedian also does this.
Any criticism whatsoever, any business decision by a company that doesn't wanna
have its entire reputation be tanked by your horrendous comments declaring herself
to be canceled despite the fact that she has yet another special coming out.
She's doing special but she's still the victim, still canceled.
But you're not canceled, you have a special,
lots of people don't have specials.
You have a special, how are you the canceled one?
She said and I will remind you of the things in a bit.
The absolutely horrendous things that she was saying that finally forced a business
to end the reboot of Roseanne or
whatever that I'm sure would have made them a bunch of money.
So I just love every time Brett, it's the constant anybody who disagrees with them.
Anyone who makes a rational decision and not support their comedy anymore isn't
making their own decision like a human would, they're canceling them.
What do you think?
>> The sense of entitlement that celebrities have,
rich celebrities have is not surprising but it still surprises me.
The fact that they have it, that sense of entitlement.
She's entitled to an audience.
The whole reason you as a comedian get an audience is because the things you're
saying make people laugh, make people feel good,
sometimes make people think but really just makes them laugh.
And you try to get more of those people together by saying things that make
people feel good and your audience grows.
She said things that didn't make people feel good and
her audience shrunk and she's like how dare they?
>> Yeah. >> How dare people not love every
second of it?
Because she forgot the club she worked in to make her way
to the absolute pinnacle of comedianship in the late 80s and
early 90s having her own sitcom that was number one for 1,000 years, which she did.
She just forgot where she came from.
The other thing is this decision.
So if you're a comedian, you very often say things in the room to lose the room.
You're trying new material thn they turn against you because you said it wrong.
You're just dying out there, right?
Most comedians try to get the room back.
She's not she's getting a new room.
Louis C.K. is trying to get the room back.
Louis C.K. is doing specials where he's like, I screwed up, I'm a bad person.
I watch his most recent special, So Sue Me and
he was really great just doing material to get the room back.
That's an earnest attempt to get yourself back into good graces,
not by complaining about how there are consequences to saying horrible stuff.
And instead he is trying to do good material.
>> Yeah.
>> So people will be like, he's trying, that's the difference between him and
Roseanne Barr and these weird moves by a lot of comedians who are like, well,
I'll just Jim Brewer my way into the most toxic room.
And what's sad is comedians know what kind of laugh they're getting,
what kind of reaction they're getting.
You said on the show you don't want the clapping where people like,
I agree with you.
This is not voluntary.
This is me.
This is not involuntary, it's a voluntary action of clapping because you didn't make
me laugh, but I want you to know I'm with you.
You want the laughs there.
Just this involuntary, like that was hilarious.
These folks are flocking to the claps, but they're not good claps.
They're as bad as the clap.
They're flocking to people who are like, yeah, you didn't make me feel good.
You make me feel angry and the way I need to feel angry right now.
So I'm with you, Roseanne.
>> Which is a thing.
It doesn't feel like a comedy thing.
It feels like a, I don't know.
>> I mean it's away.
>> Yeah. >> I have friends like that,
that laugh because it's the worst thing you've ever said.
The worst thing you've ever said is when you're out of.
I've been at funerals where people are laughing because they need
the release from the tragedy.
There's a different worst thing you ever said that people think is funny.
It's like taboos and you break them and that's one way to get released.
But leaning into them just to be terrible because you're alone in a room together.
That is a horrible thing that I don't think is funny and
I never really understand people who flock to that.
>> It feels different than comedy.
I mean your set could be 40 minutes of you reading
cards against humanity, cards I mean.
I don't think that's the same thing as a comedy set.
In any event it is a weird way to go through life as a person who is focused
for decades has been comedy thinking that if you say
things that people like you should become famous and rich and whatever.
But if you say things that people don't like, you should still be rich and famous.
I kind of feel like you have to take both of those simultaneously.
If people are gonna flock to you and be fans then they might also do the opposite
of that, that's what has actually happened here.
>> And a lot of good comedians who say things that people think they don't like
but reveal that they're kind of being crappy anyway.
I get what you're saying.
Yeah, in any event we're not gonna go through all the stuff that she said.
I just I do think that it is interesting that after her Valerie Jarrett,
Planet of the Ape's comments and clearly racist stuff,
she said incredibly misogynistic stuff.
She just states that Chelsea Clinton married into the Soros family,
it's not true, she didn't.
So obviously playing into those stereotypes.
By the way, she's jewish but she's also said things that a lot
of people interpret to be wildly anti Semitic.
She also by the way during Kanye West's downfall,
said that she appreciated his anti Semitic tweets.
So again, she can say that, she can have whatever she wants.
But it is just weird to have Fox saying what Ilhan Omar tweeted three years ago is
so terrible that she should be barred from service on congressional committees and
that's not canceling that's just necessary.
But if you don't like what Roseanne said and you don't wanna listen to her anymore,
you've canceled her.
When she's she likes Kanye West's anti Semitism.
I really wish that they could be forced in some way to have a consistent position on
what exactly canceling is because it seems like they're perfectly fine with it in
some cases.
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