Video has f-bombs and is NSFW
Roseanne Barr has released a short video on her website making fun of Cher and her transgender son, Chaz, using actors dressed up like the two and affecting their mannerisms. It’s set to look like a sitcom complete with an awful laugh track and is called “Cher and Chaz,” episode 1. The jokes are lame and the bit gets old after about a minute. I might find some of this video offensive if I could muster up the interest to care.
Intro song:
Ones in sequins, the others in jeans
One hangs with dykes, the other with queens
One munches beava, the others a diva,
Here comes Cher and Chaz
If you want to watch the video, be forewarned that it’s 3 and a half minutes of jokes that try to be obnoxious and controversial and mostly fall flat – which is pretty much an apt description of Roseanne’s career lately.
In case this video doesn’t bring her enough attention, Roseanne is continuing her verbal smack down of Jon Voight, which brought her some minor headlines last year. She writes on her blog that Voight is “attacking the leader of our country, our first elected President in eight years! I am a Jew, and I do not support Jon Voight, the whitest man on earth when he blabs on about Israel. You honky peckerwood, shut your stupid bill kristol directed mouth!” There’s more, but you can read it yourself if you’re interested. Voight voiced his support of Israel last summer so that’s not new. He was a guest on Sean Hannity’s conservative talk show on August 9, and some of his statements against the health care plan must have predictably pissed her off. Voight is staunchly conservative and Roseanne has called him out in personal attacks in the past.
Last year, Roseanne wrote “those who inhabit the media world of glamour and entertainment and fashion and gossip are horrid people who have no talent of any kind.” It takes one to know one I guess, and it’s hard to see what kind of talent is involved in mocking Cher and Chaz. The part about Cher’s gothic interior design sense is mildly funny, I guess.
We were last treated to news about Roseanne when she posed as Hitler with “burnt Jew cookies” for a photoshoot.
Roseanne is a loon!! Someone should tell her she isn’t relevant any more. It’s 2009, not 1989. Nobody cares about her lame skits, her blog or her totally bizarre photo shoots. Get some professional help and go away!!
Well, that was 3 1/2 minutes of my life I will never get back.
She thinks she is so clever and controversial, when all she really is, is pathetic. Her attempts at staying relevant have really been desperate and have failed miserably lately.
Sorry Roseanne, no one cares about you or what you have to say. Your day in the sun has set.
not going to watch the vid as the description of it is enough to make me realize that I probably wouldn’t enjoy it.
but “honky peckerwood” was pretty funny.
Why?
Why when celebs feel the sting of fading into the sunset, they need to stand on the soapbox of crazy town to get back into the news.
Between her and Rosie not sure who is the nastiest with their unsolicited advice, comment or just off the wall statements.
She’s 10 years past relevance, so who cares?
I have a tendency to overstate the obvious, but it really seems like she has LOST it in recent years. Just. Completely. Lost. It. I don’t think she’s trying to ACT crazy to get attention, I think she really IS crazy!
I agree with most of the comments here. I saw an early episode of her sitcom “Roseanne” the other night and she seemed so natural. The acting and humor was right on. Her early success went straight to her head and totally bloated her ego. Also, I think she’s on too much medication because she barely makes sense anymore.
well….I liked the video. There. I said it. I also think Rosanne is still funny sometimes. Not crazy about the Hitler housewife thing, but she is still edgy and not for everyone!
Nadya Ginesburg is playing cher and I love her too!
Roseanne trying to get her name back into the media. She should just fade away.
Yeah, it’s actually not a very bad video. But why is she attacking Cher and Chaz? I thought Roseanne was a big supporter of the LGBT community.
I bet Tom Arnold is really, really glad she kept her own name.
Roseanne is relevant. Her show was one of the funniest ever. Of course, like everything else, it eventually got stale and probably ran too long. She was an incredible comedienne. The Cher-Chaz video is zany and probably not her best work. But isn’t the whole Cher-Chaz thing nuts anyway? Cher is not exactly ‘sane’ anymore either. Wonder where Cher’s daughter got the idea to alter herself so dramatically? Could it be her mother’s obsession with plastic surgery? And is it now a sin to not be pro ‘gay’? The Hitler housewife thing is OK because Roseanne is Jewish, otherwise she would not be able to get away with it. I think her facial expression and the mustache is a riot.