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O’Donnell: ROSIE LIVE Won’t Go To Series After All!!

Published at:  Dec 03, 2008 2:43:03 PM CST


I am – Hercules!!


While “Saturday Night Live’s” four fall primetime specials proved mammoth ratings successes, NBC’s bid to capitalize on that variety-show momentum with Wednesday’s completely horrible “Rose Live” special, a backdoor pilot, has proven a bust.

Preliminary ratings indicate it tied with “Pushing Daisies” as Wednesday’s least-watched primetime show on the four major networks, and even headliner Rosie O’Donnell is now blogging that it will not go forward as a series. “there will b no more,” she typed in her Prince-like manner, noting the special’s ratings are “not enough 4 a pick up.”

Critics, reviewing the show subsequent to its live airing, were generally appalled.

TV Guide said:

… If the TV variety format weren't already dead, the ghastly ego trip of NBC's Thanksgiving-eve turkey Rosie Live would surely have killed it. …


The New York Times said:

… Lame jokes are part of the holiday variety genre, along with campy production numbers featuring sexy dancers and cute little children. Celebrity score-settling, on the other hand, belongs to the self-obsessed blogging Facebook generation. Ms. O'Donnell, who frequently takes out her frustrations in a video diary on her Web site, would have been better served leaving herself behind and sticking to the classics.


The Los Angeles Times said:

… disappointment does not even begin to describe it. For weeks now NBC has seduced and tantalized with the promise of a cross between Carol Burnett and “Sonny and Cher.” And this is what we get? Rosie in a glitter top having Baldwin speak into her cleavage and making jokes about her weight? Someone get a hold of Tim Conaway, stat.…


Variety said:

… If Rosie O’Donnell and company were consciously determined to strangle the rebirth of variety shows in the crib, they couldn’t have done a better job of it than this pre-holiday turkey. …


The Hollywood Reporter said:

… There's nothing like a good holiday variety show and this was nothing like one …



Fox is expected to try reviving the variety-show format next year with a series hosted by Ozzy Osbourne and family. CBS is developing a variety hour around a more contemporary rock star, John Mayer.








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    Readers Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 4:09:18 PM CST

    she's kind of hot

    by puby

  • Nov 30, 2008 4:14:19 PM CST

    Not even in any alternate universe is Rosie

    by pennsy

    anything but a cunt.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 4:14:53 PM CST

    Rose? Really?

    by rassmguy

    Why is she even a topic on this site??

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 4:25:16 PM CST

    Pushing Daisies+Stupid Americans=Least Watched

    by evilwizardglick

    I always thought Pushing Daisies was too smart for tv.
    Meanwhile Night Rider refuses to die because of product placement revenue.
    Fuck! I'm joining those hippie luddites who don't own tv's.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 4:26:01 PM CST

    Christian Troy did her.

    by evilwizardglick

    Can you argue with that?

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 4:27:02 PM CST

    I'm sure that Sharon said at Conan...

    by derlanghaarige

    ...that they are not making a series. It will be a one-shot. (Please correct me if I'm wrong)

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 4:27:07 PM CST

    Men love lesbians, rosie is a lesbian, therfore she is hot.

    by evilwizardglick

  • Nov 30, 2008 4:27:38 PM CST

    I would bang the shit out of Rosie.

    by mrfan

    Do all sorts of nasty shit to her.Nah, just messing with ya all. Now, excuse I have to go throw up. Even typing this made me sick to my stomach.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 4:30:08 PM CST

    FAT BITCH NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR FROM U

    by bringingsexyback

    Stupid ugly fat dyke cunt stay gone.

    If I want to watch a lesbian talk show I'll watch Ellen. And I do. Because she's funny, entertaining and is married to the damned gorgeous Portia DeRossi.

    Unlike fat ugly Rosie.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 4:31:36 PM CST

    All women are the same in the dark.

    by evilwizardglick

  • Nov 30, 2008 4:33:35 PM CST

    Not a fan of Rosie, but her Nip/Tuck character

    by evilwizardglick

    is kind of cool.
    She was hot when she was young doing standup. Much thinner.
    Then Madonna got a hold of her and she ballooned right up.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 4:33:44 PM CST

    Whuh

    by mr. zeddemore

    How is this news, let alone cool news?

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 4:34:59 PM CST

    Did anyone see the TV spot?

    by umaga

    The one with her singing? My ears were parting from my head.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 4:36:21 PM CST

    It is cool news in that

    by chromedome

    at least one hour a week will not be taken up by that talentless and annoying person, network resources will not be diverted to producing and attempting to promote it.Literally ANYTHING that goes in that timeslot will be better than Rosie. And it opens the door for something of quality, even, to see some air time.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 4:40:48 PM CST

    That's no moon...

    by br1947

    ...it's Rosie's ass. She's actually not a lesbian, just a man so fat that his junk is lost forever in fat folds.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 4:43:22 PM CST

    HALLE--FUCKING--LUJAH!

    by iamjack'suserid

    I bet Tom Selleck is laughing so hard his moustache is falling off. No one wants to see/hear a fat, ugly, annoying-voiced, over-opinionated self righteous bitch.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 4:46:00 PM CST

    If a meteor...

    by mcvamp

    Had fallen from the sky during the wrap party for A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN and crushed Rosie O'Donnell, Madonna, Lori Petty, Geena Davis, and Penny Marshall, wouldn't we think of them all a lot more fondly? Not mention the late-career crap we'd have been spared. If we'd lost Tom Hanks, well, the needs of the many...

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 4:46:03 PM CST

    chromedome

    by mr. zeddemore

    I agree anything would be better, but before this article I didn't even know there was a potential for such a show existing. So it's like 'wait - where'd that fucking shit come from?'

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 4:46:07 PM CST

    I cant speak for all the people who watched..

    by emeraldboy

    this in britain and ireland. British interest was stoked because of Brookside babe anna friel, uk tvs hottest fictional lesbian. That didnt stop it getting ripped to shreds. over here. The reaction was that while the premise was interesting man has the power to bring people back from the dead and kill them. Uk reaction was that it was almost too light. and not dark enough.. it was shown over here on itv 1 at some ridiculous hour 2pm in the afternoon on a saturday afternoon. British viewers though that it was too light and fluffy. But then I cant speak on behalf of the people who saw it. I would like rte to buy...but then would only put on at 4am in the morning. I cant say whether this show is good or bad. I have not seen enough episodes of it. I think Itv dropped it after a while. As i say interesting premise. Ordinary guy has interesting gift has potential. I think the eric idle like voice-over drove people nuts.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 4:46:57 PM CST

    I was wondering if this may be cool news...

    by mr. zeddemore

    ... and so I looked at Kurt Russell, only to find he'd jumped out of the window.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 4:48:22 PM CST

    emeraldboy

    by mr. zeddemore

    Pushing Daisies is, sadly, a terrifically cult show that didn't take off like Lost and Heroes. It's the TV equivilent of how little respect people give John Carpenter because he doesn't make blockbusters.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 4:49:32 PM CST

    When a show can't beat Pushing Daisies...

    by my mom is a whore

    ...you KNOW it's in trouble.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 5:05:32 PM CST

    Rosie writes in Prince/Text speech???

    by skraggo

    That is some weak shit there. Wow, she has truly mastered the art of SUCK.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 5:08:16 PM CST

    Skraggo

    by mr. zeddemore

    heh. SUCK.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 5:23:34 PM CST

    rassmguy: because Herc likes hate bait

    by necgray

    I've made this statement before, I'll make it again. Shit like this "news" gets posted because Herc enjoys bread & circuses. Personally I find it borderline shitty. The special got whomped in the ratings and by critics. There's no need to kick the thing when it's down. Particularly not on THIS site, where I'm guessing NOBODY gave a shit about it.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 5:29:49 PM CST

    i would die 4 u (darlin' if u want me 2)

    by geekgasm

    I love Prince, which is kind of ironic because he apparently hates queers, and I'm queer, and I hate Rosie O'Donnell, who is also queer. What a strange day we all live in.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 5:30:39 PM CST

    Prince

    by mr. zeddemore

    He's too fucked up to hate.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 5:43:28 PM CST

    self-obsessed blogging Facebook generation

    by bacci40

    the ny times is running scared...they are losing readers by the droves...doesnt help that they keep putting down the new media...in 10 years, they will not exist...and neither will rosie

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 5:46:29 PM CST

    I was reading "4400" fan fiction on the Internet...

    by leafar the lost

    ...so I missed the Fat Lesbian Live show. Was it any good?

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 5:46:34 PM CST

    why do we need a variety show anyway?

    by bacci40

    not sure if the networks have noticed but the internet now exists and on any given day or night, anyone can create their own variety show....long gone are the days when the family gathered around the tube to watch sullivan or sonny and cher...now they pass around the laptop or ipod and watche the newest thing on youtube...

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 5:51:04 PM CST

    geekgasm

    by vern

    Prince said he was misquoted on being against gay marriage. He pointed at the Bible, which the reporter took as meaning the Bible was against gay marriage. He said what he meant was that the Bible says not to judge people.
    Also he loved HAPPY FEET so much he did the end credits song for free, and Michael Medved said that HAPPY FEET was pro-gay propaganda, therefore Prince loves gay people. That's proof right there.
    I don't know. The dude is crazy either way, but I love his music too. I would be disappointed if he was mouthing off against gay marriage considering how much he sings about love and freedom and shit. Luckily that doesn't seem to be the case.

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  • Nov 30, 2008 5:57:15 PM CST

    Vern

    by geekgasm

    Thanks for gettig into the details of Mr. Prince and his commentary. I actually *had* read all about his alleged misquotation and his explanation - I just thought it was funnier to say he hated queers. Reductionist, I know, and a gross oversimplification, but I try not to let the facts get in the way of making very mildly amusing talkback comments. And whether he hates me and my cocksucking bretheren or not, I still think Purple Rain is a great song. The movie I can take or leave. And I still can't stand Rosie O'Donnell.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 5:58:07 PM CST

    MCVamp, I like Lori Petty

    by the milf lover

    and had that meteor killed her, we wouldnt have got her amazing performances in Tank Girl, Brimstone, .... err... an episode of Star Trek Voyager, and.. (looking her up on IMDB)... gee, she really hasnt done much has she?

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 6:01:15 PM CST

    also, fire whoever greelit Rosie's show

    by the milf lover

    they need to be broke and homeless. That they even thought giving Rosie a show was a good idea is proof that NBC should be shut down.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 6:10:09 PM CST

    Variety shows...

    by metiphislabs

    are painful to me

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 6:12:31 PM CST

    Vern

    by wampa_one

    Actually, Prince did not claim to be misquoted. Both he & Universal (his most recent label) have been silent on the matter. Unnamed "insiders" have claimed he was misquoted, but if you think that's anything but spin control, you're in the wrong business.

    Any doubt? Put his interviewer's credentials as a journalist up against Prince's recent assaults on his fans & hyper-conservative religious views & you should really know better.

    Prince hasn't made a good record in a decade now. If you want to see where his head is at artistically (it's pretty much up his ass, but still...) try listening to The Rainbow Children. It's anti-gay, anti-women, anti-Jew & just about unlistenable.

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  • Nov 30, 2008 6:48:04 PM CST

    no subject

    by craig2574

    Rosie have watched Ellen's Even Bigger, Really Big Show and taken some notes on how to do a show or at least be a likable person.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 6:56:02 PM CST

    Rosie's Terrible

    by richievanderlow

    Glad to hear this died a quick death.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 7:08:10 PM CST

    What is it with Prince and his slutty dancers finding Jesus?

    by mjgtexas

    First it was Vanity....then Robia LaMorte(still looks plenty hot even in a conservative, Sunday morning pant-suit)...now the little guy himself...it's like any chick who spread her legs for the purple one's piggly wiggly has a one way ticket to fundyland. If I ever see Apollonia dishing it with Jan Crouch on Praise The Lord, I'm officially gearing up for the 2012 apocalypse.

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  • Nov 30, 2008 7:16:23 PM CST

    The time is ripe for the ERNEST BORGNINE VARIETY HOUR!!

    by uncle stan

    Ernie will knock 'em dead. Total cash cow for the sponsors. It's a win-win situation for everyone.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 7:20:48 PM CST

    Wait, this was already on?

    by otm shank

    I missed it. Can't imagine why....

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 7:23:32 PM CST

    She's the pinnacle of annoying...

    by crankyoldguy

    worse than Ellen. And at least with Tyra you want to play hide-the-salami and have her chow down on big johnny.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 7:25:35 PM CST

    And as someone who remembers

    by crankyoldguy

    Sullivan and Hollywood Palace as a kid, the variety concept needs to be re-thought for this century. It probably can work, but the host nees to be an emcee (not a sucker MC), guide and fan of everything on the program.

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  • Nov 30, 2008 7:25:55 PM CST

    Prince may be nuts...

    by mcvamp

    But he's still a badass performer. Besides, if you really think Prince is nuts, take a step back and think of good ol' Michael Jackson. Like Chris Rock said: "Prince won!"

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  • Nov 30, 2008 7:27:29 PM CST

    plus Prince isn't gay but...

    by crankyoldguy

    he loves Bi-Girls. Then, who doesn't among the male horndog populace? Here, here!

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 8:22:59 PM CST

    BACK TO MARINELAND, YA FAT SLOB

    by thegreatwhatzit

    Seriously, an "Ernest Borgnine Variety Special" would have been sexier (Ernie's inevitable tag line: "How did you eight balls ever get in the navy?"). The gay (i.e. lesbian) community is seriously handicapped by O'Donnell's appalling presence. Another triumph, NBC; you're rapidly eroding into a an antiquated UHF station.

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  • Nov 30, 2008 8:30:32 PM CST

    Remember When Rosie O'Donnell Was Called...

    by red dawn don

    Remember When Rosie O'Donnell Was Called "The Queen Of Nice". When she/it had her/it's own daytime talkshow, she/it was billed as that. What a PHONEY Rosie turned out to be. I dub her "The Queen Of Beyotch." A true Hollywood liberal phoney beyotch.

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  • Nov 30, 2008 8:38:59 PM CST

    Early Christmas

    by stvnhthr

    This is a great early Christmas present. The sad thing is this will only further entrench her as the queen of self righteousness. Why did anyone like her in the first place? Except for Elmo she never seemed nice to anyone.

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  • Nov 30, 2008 9:09:29 PM CST

    Rosie O'Donnell, Rosie Barr, and Hillary Clinton...

    by eriamjh

    ... 3 unlikable females reimagined as 3 detectives working for an invisible boss, in "Charlie's Kankles"

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  • Nov 30, 2008 9:17:02 PM CST

    Audience has to like the host

    by reno

    Most of America hates Rosie's guts. This is proof. NYC and LA and SF might love her, but everyone else hates her guts.

    People love Carol Burnett, and to have Rosie compared to such an icon is insulting.

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  • Nov 30, 2008 9:17:26 PM CST

    There was only ONE variety show ever worth watching

    by deagol21

    And that was THE MUPPET SHOW. Gimme Kermit, Fozzie, Gonzo, and Ms. Piggy any day!

    If they tried to bring that back, I'd at least give it a try. I didn't want to watch a loudmouthed, ill-informed, ugly dyke - and I didn't.

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  • A straight man that loves to suck cock.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 9:26:56 PM CST

    Who cares...

    by jimmy rabbitte

    ...she sucks anyway...

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  • Nov 30, 2008 9:30:13 PM CST

    Just one word.....

    by closeencounter

    Good riddance!!.......oh wait, that's two words. I was doing my Joe Biden impersonation.......Anyway, Rosie deserves any criticism she gets.

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  • Nov 30, 2008 9:30:23 PM CST

    I thought Rosie's variety show would work.

    by kabong

    I wasn't going to watch it, but I thought there would be other people who would eagerly.

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  • Nov 30, 2008 9:41:12 PM CST

    Rosie and Starr Jones

    by bobparr

    They are living proof that fat, overbearing women will thrive on THE VIEW but fail everywhere else. Are you listening Joy Behar?

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 9:50:58 PM CST

    Why does life keep giving people like this extra chances???

    by yotzvonfrelnik

    Not entertaining. Not funny. Not "nice". She's as big a gas bag as South Park made her out to be. I think Howard Stern phoned her up on her own show to call her out on how she fired people on her daytime talk show staff for lame reasons. I'm not completely sure of the whole situation though.

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  • Nov 30, 2008 9:51:10 PM CST

    Are you listening Joy Behar?

    by geekgasm

    Of course she isn't listening - she couldn't hear you over the sound of herself.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 9:51:19 PM CST

    Fatso needs to go

    by georgieboy

    away. Forever.

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  • Nov 30, 2008 10:01:49 PM CST

    Thank God.

    by charlie_allnut

    Ask much as I like watching morbidly obese annoying lesbians sing duets w/ Liza Minnelli... Did they honestly think that anyone besides bored gay men would watch this? I mean seriously?

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 10:10:16 PM CST

    This is Cool News!

    by thebige

    Ain't it?

    Reply to Talkback

  • Nov 30, 2008 10:23:33 PM CST

    Aww...

    by inframan76

    Now she won't get to remind us that she's a lesbian every week. Cause we'd forget otherwise, ya know.

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  • Nov 30, 2008 10:33:18 PM CST

    Bring back thursday night live

    by throwmetheidol

    I loved it. It was better than the real SNL. Move 30 rock to kath and kim's slot and put TNL behind the office.

    As to Rosie, I don't get how she keeps failing upwards. I'm sure she'll get another lucrative offer for a movie or tv series within 6 months.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Mind Of Mencia is finally dead! Ned says he opted not to go #5 because he wa sonly 90% satisfied as opposed to the normal 100. That statement was funnier than any "skit" he ever put on.

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  • Nov 30, 2008 10:51:22 PM CST

    ROSIE O' DONNELL IS A HORRIBLE CREATURE :

    by ptsdpete

    Who ruined childhoods in the '90s. Point.

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  • Nov 30, 2008 10:56:38 PM CST

    ThrowMe, here's the good news--

    by thegreatwhatzit

    Even the PC assholes can't compromise this failure. Rosie O'Donnell had been polled as "America's #1 most annoying person." Nevertheless, NBC (who else?) cast her in a fuckin' variety show. The netwrok and the weather balloon are dog food. I'm sure O'Donnell will beef the negativity that chastised her prime time abortion was "a backlash against women and lesbians." But I doubt that women and the gay community will buy that bullshit. O'Donnell's cursed legacy: Hillary Clinton.

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  • Nov 30, 2008 10:59:19 PM CST

    the milf lover, the reason this show got greenlit

    by big jim

    NBC is stupid. They think all they have to do is promote a show by mentioning a name people know. It's how they promote all their shows. "Stayed tuned for [insert program name], with special guest-star [insert "celebrity" name]. Followed by an all-new Scrubs."

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  • Nov 30, 2008 11:04:34 PM CST

    Oh, it's a VARIETY SHOW ?!?!?

    by ptsdpete

    Sick fucking fuck. Just made me threw up on my mind. Man, I didn't even catch THAT. It's how terribly repugnant she is.

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  • Nov 30, 2008 11:06:46 PM CST

    Not that I think better promotion would have saved it.

    by big jim

    Rather, it seems to me this show was created by that same marketing department. " What's a name everyone knows?" "Rosie O'Donnel." "Great, let's put her in a show; it can't miss. Now, what kind of show should it be?"

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  • Nov 30, 2008 11:38:53 PM CST

    Queen of nice

    by iceman32_89

    I hate to admit it but I actually did watch the rosie show from time to time when it was on.It was a fun little show but I stopped watching after she ambushed Tom Selleck and made him to look like an idiot.after that it become uncomfortable to watch

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  • Nov 30, 2008 11:52:39 PM CST

    Too bad Rosie herself wasn't greenlit...

    by grandmufftarkin

    ...instead of her terrible show. And by greenlit, I'm talking Armenian Money Train feet choppin' style.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 12:28:10 AM CST

    Rosie's show tanks. Ann Coulter's jaw gets wired shut...

    by crazyjoedavola

    WHAT A FUCKING FANTASTIC WEEK!!

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  • Dec 01, 2008 12:39:18 AM CST

    Pretty much everybody here called that one!

    by p0llk4t

    Guess that bizaro-world career has finally come to an end. Anyone know a funny Rosie joke? Yeah, me neither.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 12:54:55 AM CST

    thank god

    by westonian

    worst shit i've ever seen

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  • Dec 01, 2008 2:03:20 AM CST

    GrandMuff, that's an awesome reference!

    by the milf lover

    but feet choppin' wouldnt really work on Rosie, since she just kinds of slithers around on her fat like Jabba the Hut.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 2:43:17 AM CST

    Iceman32_89

    by ptsdpete

    Well, you know. It's Tom Selleck. Would have been fun to watch that dork being clobbered by that dipshit from ' Tarzan '.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 4:13:20 AM CST

    The campaign starts here

    by elpaw

    What can we send to NBC to get this back on the air?????

    I'm thinking wreckage of trains.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 4:35:57 AM CST

    Rosie's big fat head in HD?

    by dr gregory house

    I suspect it was just too much for 1080i signals.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 5:03:07 AM CST

    ROSIE VS TRUMP- STEEL CAGE DEATH MATCH

    by alice 13

    DEFINITELY WOULD WATCH.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 5:26:40 AM CST

    Vern had to post for ad $$$

    by mr.lordbronco

    I'm just saying-this website/blog is a business-and it has been a dead week in news entertainment-wise.

    I literally haven't seen more than 4 minutes of network TV in 7 months-it feels great!!!

    -MLB

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  • Dec 01, 2008 6:33:22 AM CST

    There IS a God AND Thanksgiving a second time around!!

    by arcangel2020

    One of the few (so-called) Celebrities that sets me off is the piece of shit known as Rosie O'Donnell!
    I am glad to hear/read that this miserable slob of a human "being" (and I use the term "Human Being" loosely here) named Rosie O'Donnell failed with her recent attempt at coming back to the realm of TV.
    I have nothing but sheer and utter contempt for this so-called person! She is a miserable piece of crap who is no longer relevant (was she ever fot that matter?) her talk show was a sham and so was her "crush" on that freak Tom Cruise and then when people got tired of her antics and her views on that show hosted by a bevy of shrieking harpy-shews called "The View"? She blamed everyone for her problems and when things DON'T go her way? It's funny how those people are deemed "homophobic" or it's they who have issues and not her.
    The fact that NO ONE watched that show of hers this past Thanksgiving Holiday proves that she needs to just stick to blogging over at her website and just fade away... Personally, I think she needs to have a bag put over her ugly face and muzzle put on her ugly and miserable yap..but that is just my own opinion.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 6:48:01 AM CST

    Prince likes Zac Efron in a wig and a dress!

    by the brains

    Ow! Yeah!

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  • HAHA. What a joke that was.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 7:55:06 AM CST

    Cancelled..?!? I say...

    by duct tape wallet

    thank whatever deity or no-deity you wish, in this case. She'll never convince me that she's anything but a mean spirited person at heart

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  • Dec 01, 2008 7:55:58 AM CST

    Variety Hour?

    by starskyandhushky

    The Osbourne Family Smile-Time Variety Hour? All they need is to replace Kelly with a hot blonde.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 8:07:33 AM CST

    Watch for Alec Baldwin at a convention near you

    by thegreatwhatzit

    As a result of 30 ROCK's zip ratings (and ill-advised desperation like the O'Donnell garbage), Alec Baldwin will be allying himself with the has-beens who frequent movie conventions. He'll be seated between Larry Storch (F TROOP) and the coke-sniffin' former child actor who was cast in the first Chucky movie. I can understand Burt Reynolds schilling his autograph for $40-$50 (!!!) but it's a heartbreak to see Linda Hasmilton attending these things. And now Richard Dreyfuss has joined the ranks; this is the guy who bad-mouthed Oliver Stone, on the talk show circuit, after the director furnished him with a much-needed job in "W". Don't ask for his signature ($50?), just smile and enlighten him that his best role--ever--was in POSEIDON. Watch the fun.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 8:50:38 AM CST

    We already have variety shows.

    by christopher3

    They're called Leno, Letterman, Conan...

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  • Dec 01, 2008 9:35:21 AM CST

    @ElPaw

    by bytor

    I see what you did there.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 9:36:21 AM CST

    @GrandMuffTarkin

    by bytor

    I agree with milf lover: great reference.

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  • Please, Herc, let us have a TB what will be, for me, a very trying two weeks of being a fan of the show. In time, before the end of the night, you'll know why.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 10:48:55 AM CST

    Love the old variety shows, but.....

    by thot

    Rosie just plain missed the mark. The fact that she has become so widely disliked (even hated) doesn't help either. Ellen did a much better job but wasn't great either. Hers was more "Ed Sullivan" than Carol Burnett. Maybe someone else will do it right.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 10:56:03 AM CST

    Rosie O'Donnell is just Nick Frost in drag

    by spyguy

    No, wait...That's an insult to Nick Frost. Never mind.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 11:02:48 AM CST

    Ellen's Variety show was better

    by j2talk

    on all points...

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  • Dec 01, 2008 11:05:14 AM CST

    Portia de Rossi should have hosted, not Rosie O'Fattie.

    by leafar the lost

    America is open to a gay variety show, but only if it is hosted by a hot lesbian like Portia de Rossi. Rosie needs to realize that America will be open to gays and give them their civil rights, but we will not be open to some fat, loud-mouth, ugly dike-hole like you on TV trying to entertain us with a shitty variety show that went out of style in the 70's. Man, Portia de Rossi is hot! Ellen Degeneres is one lucky dude...

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  • Dec 01, 2008 11:41:12 AM CST

    Heroes 311

    by mr. zeddemore

    Or, as Pennsy alluded, 'the day the people cried.'

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  • Dec 01, 2008 11:41:23 AM CST

    Best Christmas Ever!

    by melvin_pelvis

    Knowing that evil harridan won't be hiding behind a mis-entered channel change

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  • Dec 01, 2008 11:51:57 AM CST

    Rosie is being replaced

    by snookeroo

    by a show about three sexy shoe models who solve crimes for an unseen ringleader with a foot fetish. It's called "Charlie's Ankles". insert rimshot here

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  • Dec 01, 2008 11:52:12 AM CST

    If Joss Whedon were involved

    by zerocorpse

    All you Buffynuts and Browncoats and Whedonites would be singing the praises of the show, crying that it wasn't given a chance.
    Anyway, variety shows are dead. We're just not that innocent anymore. They might as well try the Fantasy Island/Love Boat "B-list celebrities of the week" format again, too.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 11:56:05 AM CST

    ZeroCorpse

    by mr. zeddemore

    Not really. Joss makes a conscious choice to trust Fox for no apparant reason. They've proven how evil they are, so it's his own fault if Dollhouse fails.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 12:19:48 PM CST

    Rosie O'Donnel is a Diesel Dyke Byotch!!!

    by seymourclearly

    Fuck this bloated douchebag and her ugly ass mug. Looking at her makes me vomit unmercifully!!!

    Let Megan Fox host the show naked and I'll watch every week!!

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  • Dec 01, 2008 12:24:03 PM CST

    VH-1 and the Doom Mullet...

    by darth macchio

    I remember Rosie back in the ancient VH-1 days where she was their resident "VJ" a la all of the MTV vj's (do they use humans anymore?). She had that totally awesome dress/sports coat for women that had those supremely awesome shoulder pads (ever feel one? what the fuck did they make them out of? not a pillow, not folded fabric, but yet it's "billowy", like a tampon maybe?) plus she had a totally bitchin' super mullet. That curly, permy brillo pad thing going on up top of the mellon with rockstar-style Doom-mullet length in the back. Mullets rock. Doom mullets rock you straight to hell. Nowadays, I hardly see her as feminine (she's still a woman right?)...and it's got nothing to do with who she likes in the sack either. Plus, it seems like she's a high school student with the co-requisite HS bullshit except it's on national TV and pundit-holes link to her "video blog" idiocy like her melodramatic ranting is relevant.But the DOOM MULLET is GOD. You will worship the Doom Mullet. Now. Worship. Right now. Yes, now. Thanks. Amen.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 12:53:26 PM CST

    Die, Tracy and Daphne, DIE!

    by pennsy

    And Keep The MVP vertical.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 1:50:28 PM CST

    Pennsy

    by mr. zeddemore

    Dude, she's gone. Seriously, I'm concerned about you and how much anger this is causing you.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 2:03:21 PM CST

    I'm OK, really. I've been resigned to this for a while.

    by pennsy

    Though I will get druck on milk ;). Honestly, with the movie career KB's got in front of her, she's getting off this sinking ship in the nick of time.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 2:05:05 PM CST

    But the show needs to step it up after last week's flat

    by pennsy

    first part. I think this is the first official 2-parter they've done.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 2:21:16 PM CST

    How is this cool news?

    by yoda's ball sack

    Slow news day Herc?????

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  • Dec 01, 2008 2:24:33 PM CST

    C'mon Corpsie

    by buffywrestling

    Couldn't even wait for a related talkback for an actual on-topic Whedon rant? You know there would have been one any day now...

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  • Dec 01, 2008 2:24:37 PM CST

    Rosie needs to revive her career.

    by yoda's ball sack

    By doing porn.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 2:25:11 PM CST

    I think that its really fucked up

    by chadley bebay

    That just because people don't like a comedian, its ok to attack her weight and sexuality in such a hateful and vicious way. Seriously... fuck you degenerates.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 3:02:28 PM CST

    Chadley, don't you mean

    by shut the fuck up donny

    Ellen Degenerates?

    *rimshot*

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  • Dec 01, 2008 3:28:10 PM CST

    Pennsy

    by mr. zeddemore

    Yeah, I wasn't too impressed with 310. I know we have to judge it as a full ep with 311, but not a lot actually happened. Still, I'm in the show for the long-haul.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 3:36:44 PM CST

    Second time the gay platform is voted down...

    by banzai rootskibango

    ...within the last month. Awesome. Rosie O'Donnel needs to go away...and then stay there. Forever.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 3:52:29 PM CST

    OK, Heroes talkback moved to the item above it...

    by pennsy

    On the coaxial menu ;)

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  • Dec 01, 2008 4:06:21 PM CST

    Rosie getting canned...

    by chief joseph

    ...is indeed cool news.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 4:06:39 PM CST

    Yep

    by mr. zeddemore

    I've already ventured there. Do we have to keep moving?

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  • Dec 01, 2008 4:18:27 PM CST

    Rosie is so disgusting my television shut itself off.

    by quake ii

    She's so fat that I was watching her NBC special on channel 4, turned to channel 13 and her ass was still on the screen! She's so ugly that she makes Rosanne Barr look like Megan Fox! Rosie's so fat that he has an automatic Cheetos dispenser over her bed.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 4:21:05 PM CST

    oh, darn

    by kaiser117

    i'm disappointed her show got cancelled even before it started because now i CAN'T kill myself in the most painful way possible like i wanted to... i guess i'll have to do that by watching Desperate Housewives or Dancing With the Stars "shudder".

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  • Dec 01, 2008 4:27:34 PM CST

    Rosie's so fat...

    by quake ii

    that Jabba The Hutt wouldn't fuck her....drunk. Rosie's so liberal she makes Joe Lieberman look conservative. Rosie bought a "Smart Car", chained it to her Range Rover and tows her snacks around in it.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 4:31:25 PM CST

    Rosie's so big....

    by quake ii

    that you could put an undershirt on her and project an Imax movie on her back....And still have extra space...

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  • Dec 01, 2008 4:55:57 PM CST

    Tom Selleck kicked Rosie' s fat ass!

    by big dumb ape

    If you ever watch that interview, while it's clear that Rosie ambushed Selleck and that made the whole atmosphere uncomfortable, all the same Selleck stayed calm and articulated his pro-NRA positions.What made that interview so much more laughable was that for all her anti-gun posturing, at the exact SAME TIME O'Donnell was being paid millions to be the spokesperson for Wallmart which WAS selling guns. And it wasn't until the media called her out on a bit of hypocrisy on her part, which was clearly lining her pockets, to amend that situation.And let's not forget fat ass O'Donnell also go payback from Bill O'Reilly, when he put her in the hot seat over her anti-gun position, but then noted that she had armed security that carried concealed weapons at all times who watched over her kids even at school -- which is where O'Donnell really came off as an egotistical bitch by essentially declaring to America "Yeah, but MY kids need protecting, yours don't."

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  • Dec 01, 2008 4:56:47 PM CST

    Ozzy and Fam Variety Show

    by horatio_rastapopulous

    I didn't think I could roll my eyes any more after hearing Rosie might be coming back to television but this did it. Who the hell is running the show at Fox greenlighting these ideas? An Ozzy variety show? That thing won't see the light of day.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 5:46:21 PM CST

    I knew her show would be DOA. Dead as in..

    by stalkeye

    Deader than The Ramones. Couldnt stand that pompous windbag on The View but I hated that cunt (Elizabeth)Haselback even more.However she is kinda hot.It's funny how the "stuck Irish pig" defended Imus, yet this old fart still has his career and she aint got shit but her Gay Cruise and those stupid blogs.Good Riddance Pumpkinhead.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 6:43:25 PM CST

    NOOOO!! DAMN!

    by series7

    I was SOOO hoping for a week to week of this. I bet dicks to doughnuts I'm maybe one of five who actually watched this crap on this site.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 6:51:34 PM CST

    Hahahahahahahahaha Fringe

    by series7

    Watching last weeks episode with a guy gets attacked by killer Butterfly's. HAHAHAHAHAHAH how much would that suck to be that guys dad or son? Well he was killed by butterflies. Also I love how P Break and Fringe don't even try to be creative with the evil company's name. In P Break its just The Company? And in Fringe its Massive Dynamic. May as well just called it Enron.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 6:52:05 PM CST

    Oops

    by series7

    Wrong thread.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 7:11:09 PM CST

    Who gives a shit?

    by catlettuce4

    Is this site the Enquirer now? Are we going to be reading about has-been celebrities that only middle aged housefraus care about for the forseeable future?

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  • Dec 01, 2008 7:41:53 PM CST

    Zerocorpse--what a Tool

    by chromedome

    So Obsessive is his raging flaming anti-Whedonism, he invokes it in unrelated talkbacks. So much more obsessed than those he impotently rages against.Lame, angry, flaming rage--not unlike Rosie, come to think of it....

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  • Dec 01, 2008 7:44:12 PM CST

    Rosie will claim she is a victim of anti-gay sentiment

    by chromedome

    Bogus. She is a victim of Anti-Rosie Sentiment: Gay or Straight matters not--she is an annoying hateful irritating PERSON, plain and simple.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 10:03:06 PM CST

    The difference between Rosie Live and my sister's murder

    by smash drama

    I could watch my sister's murder if I had to...

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  • Dec 01, 2008 10:13:07 PM CST

    Wish this was the Rosie Vanity Hour

    by loosejerk

    Duets of Vanity 6's classics!

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  • Dec 01, 2008 10:46:35 PM CST

    I will only watch the Osborne's Variety Show if...

    by tvguy4566

    They free their unnamed unknow daughter from the basement and let her be in the show. Free the Nameless Osborne child!

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  • Dec 01, 2008 11:28:11 PM CST

    Big Dumb Ape,

    by mrfan

    I remember that interview. What was even funnier was the fact that Rosie had action figures in front of her that had guns.Chromedome, you are absolutely right. Doesn't matter if she is gay or not. She has so much hate in her. A very pathetic human being.

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  • Dec 01, 2008 11:55:50 PM CST

    Next gig for O'Donnell

    by thegreatwhatzit

    The rumored remake of THE BLOB (a remake of the Steve McQueen classic or a remake of that movie's remake?). As for O'Donnell, I remember one of Groucho's lines: "I can see you now bending over a hot stove..but I can't see the stove!"

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  • Dec 02, 2008 6:48:49 AM CST

    The Trump VS. O'Donnell Grudgematch

    by evil chicken

    I'd have tuned in for that. Have it at Madison Square Garden and give them baseball bats with spikes sticking out of them - just like in "Escape from NY". Yeah. I'd watch that. Go Donald!

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  • Dec 02, 2008 9:32:17 AM CST

    Gay people bitch and moan about shit to the wrong people...

    by banzai rootskibango

    ...they're protesting at Christian churches over in Cali, when the overriding factor in they're little proposition faliure was the African-American vote which voted them down by 70%...why don't they go protest in front of some black churches or in some black neighborhoods?

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  • Dec 02, 2008 1:09:32 PM CST

    If this was not for real I'd swear it was a 30 Rock goof

    by skimn

    like the fireworks spectacular. NBC SHOULD go forward with Milf Island..what the hell, why not.

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  • Simple. Blacks, christian or no are very intolerable when it comes to Gays, that and the risk of massive beatdowns from homophobic passerbys.

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  • Dec 02, 2008 8:59:51 PM CST

    Actually, I've heard Ellen Degeneres isn't a nice person

    by juemad

    Comedian Greg Fitzsimmons has been on Adam Carolla's radio show and he's said as much. He worked on the show a number of years as a writer and producer.

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  • Dec 02, 2008 8:59:51 PM CST

    Actually, I've heard Ellen Degeneres isn't a nice person

    by juemad

    Comedian Greg Fitzsimmons has been on Adam Carolla's radio show and he's said as much. He worked on the show a number of years as a writer and producer.

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  • Dec 03, 2008 11:09:47 AM CST

    why I love Ellen and hate Rosie

    by arcadiands

    If the three of us were in a Starbucks, and I blurted out "LESBIANS ARE GOIN TA LESBO-HELL!", Rosie would have thrown her hot moccha bitchy latte in my face and kicked my dog. Whereas, Ellen would have taken me by the wrist, pulled me into one of those overly faggy Starbuck's lounge chairs and said, "y'know - that was hurtful what you said and I just wanted you to know that. I can't change your opinion of me and I can only let you go along your way with that opinion, but I can ask that you make an effort to not be hurtful for the sheer purpose of being hurtful."
    Perhaps not entirely accurate, but that's what I imagine would happen.

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