Raising the Barr
Roseanne to perform two UK dates
Roseanne Barr is coming to Britain for just two dates.
Organisers of the Leicester Comedy festival have persuaded the comic to make a rare UK appearance to open next year’s event.
The 52-year-old sitcom star will perform two nights at the city’s De Montfort Hall on February 10 and 11, the first two nights of the ten-day festival.
Leicester is Britain’s longest-established comedy festival, marking its 13th year in 2006, and attracts around 50,000 to almost 200 events.
On US chat show Jimmy Kimmel Live this week, Barr described her stand-up show as ‘going around telling jokes about our country and our people and the world and how screwed up everything is. And I just basically bitch. I’m really good at it.’
And she said of George Bush: ‘I could totally win him in a mind contest. Like if it was like a psychic thing and he was like, okay Rosanne, bring your best powers against my best powers, even though he's like totally world-wide connected, and I'm not so world-wide, I could so totally still win on account of like being female, being a grandmother and like, you know, being intelligent. I could totally win.’
Watch the interview here.
Published: 21 Oct 2005
