Roseanne’s New MAGA Sitcom Sounds Totally Nuts

Roseanne Barr is planning a comeback with a “silly and out there” series about an Alabama farmer who will “save America with guns, the Bible, petty crime, and alcoholism,” according to Variety.

Barr promised that her new show, which she wrote with Roseanne producer Allan Stephan, will have “very offensive ideas and a lot of swearing.” She also described it as “a cross between The Roseanne Show and The Sopranos,” where the protagonist saves “the United States from drug gangs and China,” and likened it a Coen brothers movie. The show will reflect the politics Barr believes Americans want to see, as evidenced by Donald Trump’s election win, she told the site.

“If [Hollywood] wants to survive, they should work with the new president,” Barr said, as the “American people elected him in an overwhelming victory. They should get back in touch with [them] and make some money.”

Her money-making idea? A “cartoony kind of thing” in which there’s a scene “where I have to strap myself into a corset. My granddaughter helps me, and then I go into town to flirt with all the shopkeepers that are just grotesque people.”

The MAGA proponent is looking forward to returning to the screen following her annexation from Hollywood and the cancellation of her Roseanne reboot after she tweeted a racial epithet about former top Obama aide Valerie Jarrett in 2018: “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.” (Barr later said she regretted apologizing for the tweet.)

ABC called the tweet “abhorrent, repugnant, and inconsistent with our values” as the network announced Roseanne’s cancellation, which had only aired one season since returning after 1997. A month after nixxing Barr, ABC announced that the reboot would continue without her, renaming the show The Conners.

Though she may be buoyed by the confidence of Trump’s election win, Barr has tempered expectations about her mainstream acceptance—but that won’t stop her new series from seeing the light of day, she told Variety. “If Hollywood doesn’t buy it, then I’m just gonna make it myself,” she said. “Does anybody in [Hollywood] like America or the people who watch TV? Because the people who watch TV would really like to see a show where working-class people win against the enemies of America.”

Now that comments like the one that derailed her career have become more acceptable in the mainstream as Trump re-enters the White House, she may well have a chance at getting the bonkers show sold.

“I don’t give a f--- either way,” she explained. “I’d like to get paid handsomely to bring another s--t f---ing network back from doom as I’ve done twice for ABC. But I just don’t see how they would keep their nose out of my business.”

Without a major suitor, Barr added, “I’ll just go somewhere else and put it on my own website.”