Roseanne Barr challenges Hollywood to give her another shot after controversial 'Roseanne' exit
Eight years after she was fired from her hit reboot of "Roseanne," Roseanne Barr is looking for a second chance.
The 73-year-old has self-financed a new show called "Meemaw: A Modern Day Fable." Barr told The Hollywood Reporter this week that she's shopping the sitcom to "Anybody who wants a number one show and is smart enough to take a number one show." ETHAN HAWKE BLASTS HOLLYWOOD'S 'GREEDY BASTARDS,' PREDICTS MASSIVE REBELLION AGAINST POWERFUL ELITES "I don’t know why they don’t want a number one show and why they hate a number one show and why they would destroy a number one show," she said of Hollywood.
"But if they do want a number one show, I got it." The "Roseanne" reboot was a huge hit with tens of millions of viewers each week, and it finished its first season as the number one primetime sitcom in the 18-49 demographic, according to Variety .
ROSEANNE BARR CALLS FORMER CO-STAR A 'BRAINWASHED BIGOT' AFTER HE SAID REBOOT WAS 'RIGHTFULLY CANCELED' She’s also pitched "Meemaw" to Elon Musk but without success.
"I don’t know why he hasn’t called me or returned my calls," she admitted of the trillionaire.
"I mean, of all people on earth, I’m the one he should call, but I don’t know." HOW ELON MUSK GOT BACK IN TRUMP'S ORBIT AFTER NUCLEAR FALLOUT, INSIDERS REVEAL: 'WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE' "Meemaw" is about the matriarch of a mixed-race family in Texas who are preppers, which she describes as "Somebody who’s prepared of the end of the world." It’s partially based on her life.
"I’m a prepper.
I live in Texas.
Everybody’s a prepper here," she said.
The show also stars Drea de Matteo, Omar Gooding and Randy Quaid who plays Barr’s love interest.
JOHN GOODMAN ADMITS HE FELT 'FRIGHTENED' AFTER THE SUDDEN FAME HE EXPERIENCED FROM 'ROSEANNE' "I’m in love with him and I wish he would leave his wife and marry me," she joked.
"I enjoyed making out with him so much that I wrote extra scenes where we would make out." Barr said she hasn’t shown the sitcom to anyone yet.
"But it is so funny," she said.
"It’s the funniest s--- I’ve ever done, and I had a ball and I play a really wacky old lady this time." On her firing from the reboot, Barr insists she didn’t intend her infamous tweet about former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett to be racist.
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