What can be said about Roseanne Barr that she has not said about herself? Yes, she is loud. Yes, she is Jewish. And yes, obviously, she is a little on the heavy side.
Roseanne Barr performed Wednesday night to a packed house at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center. Like Barr, her opening act, Alexandra McHale, touched on the weight issues she faces. McHale entertained the audience for 20 minutes before Barr took the stage.
She enlightened the audience of the real definition of petite; for those that do not know: it means "whore." McHale also told the audience that Americans do not need nutritional information printed on food labels, they need nutritional advice such as, "You don't need this cookie, you need Pilates."
When Barr, the original desperate housewife and original fat actress, took the stage, she touched on every subject from gays to Catholics to the president. She even did a little of her old routine from before her television success. Barr focused many of her jokes on what has been happening since 2000. She said George W. Bush has a deficit attention disorder and this century sucks. She also claimed that everyone and everything is falling apart but more importantly, she is. Barr said that her generation, the baby boomers, needs to be renamed as the Casket Patch Kids.
Who should teach our young girls in schools? According to Barr, gay men. They are the only men we should trust with girls. She said it would be a win-win situation. She also said that without gay men, fat women would have nobody to dance with.
Can a former 1990s television star predict the end of the world? If that star is Barr, then yes. Barr spoke a great deal of Armageddon. A couple reasons she gave were McDonalds now offers salads and fruit as healthy alternatives and the governor of California is Arnold Schwarzenegger. She claimed that the world will end soon and all skinny people will die first and the fat people will walk over the bones of the thin.
Before the show, the audience was given the opportunity to fill out a card with a question that the famous comedian might choose to answer. Like Miss Cleo, Barr claims to have psychic ability. "Yes, as long as the checks clear," answered Barr when asked, "Should I continue to sleep with my ex-husband?"
The 60-minute show was filled with sexual humor along with religious humor that a portion of the audience found offensive. Jokes pertaining to God using the F-word was not taken well by some of the audience. Shoulders shrugged when Barr joked that God spoke to her and used foul language. Barr, herself, said that she was shocked when she heard the language coming from God.
Not only did Barr's unforgettable voice keep the audience's attention, the show also incorporated a slide show and a keyboard player. The slide show featured pictures pertaining to her jokes. The pictures ranged from one of her with her 10-year-old son to another of George W. Bush reading a children's book upside down on Sept. 11, 2001. The keyboard player played songs and melodies such as "Imagine" that related to the jokes as well.
Barr encouraged the audience to take chances since the world is coming to the end. The self-proclaimed Queen of all trailer parks ended her show by singing "Spirit in the Sky." She also tap danced her way off the stage for the first time in her corset and panties. She returned for the encore, still claiming that the end is near and ended her incredibly entertaining, memorable and humorous routine with her rendition of the classic "My Way."




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