Still Got It
When I was 12, I started babysitting. My first babysitting kid was a one-year old named Andrew who called himself Ah-new. After he'd go to sleep, I would watch VH1's Standup Spotlight or whatever it was called. Rosie O'Donnell hosted, and what I remember most are two things:
1. That I wished she wouldn't bother introducing other comedians, and she would just do all the comedy for the entire show; and
2. That she would stop introducing every single comedian by saying, "Coming to the stage right now, is a very funny friend of mine ..."
To this day I'm very sensitive about tossing around the term "friend" and was the same way as a 12 year old. I was sure she couldn't possibly be friends with ALL those comedians. I had no understanding of the comedy circuit - that they all played the same clubs, all studied at Groundlings or that other place together - and that they truly were, all friends.
When Rosie got her talk show, I was thrilled. Of course, I thought she overdid talking about her crush on Tom Cruise so much (maybe that was my gaydar that I didn't know existed?), but still found her hilarious. As I am, she was from Long Island. She never watered down her thick New York accent. Like Rosie Perez, or Tony Danza, it was part of her schtick.
Eventually I kind of ... forgot about her? Kathy Griffin has been so much more prominent the last decade or so. Everyone including me loves Jimmy Fallon. Lately I've been digging Michael McIntyre for comedy, though I seem to be the only American who knows of him.
Recently though, Rosie was in the news for getting a divorce, and then doing a comedy special last month. I just watched it (on Youtube) and you know what? She's just as funny as she was when I was 12. Maybe I'm wildly immature, but maybe, just maybe she can appeal to a 12 year old AND a 38 year old all at the same time. I wish she did more comedy specials. I don't need to see her argue with Elizabeth Hasselback.
*The only thing I didn't like about her comedy special was how much time she spent making jokes about her 18 yr old's penis. I was embarrassed for him. Rosie O'Donnell is so funny she could have spent that time joking about so many other things without talking about that.
1. That I wished she wouldn't bother introducing other comedians, and she would just do all the comedy for the entire show; and
2. That she would stop introducing every single comedian by saying, "Coming to the stage right now, is a very funny friend of mine ..."
To this day I'm very sensitive about tossing around the term "friend" and was the same way as a 12 year old. I was sure she couldn't possibly be friends with ALL those comedians. I had no understanding of the comedy circuit - that they all played the same clubs, all studied at Groundlings or that other place together - and that they truly were, all friends.
When Rosie got her talk show, I was thrilled. Of course, I thought she overdid talking about her crush on Tom Cruise so much (maybe that was my gaydar that I didn't know existed?), but still found her hilarious. As I am, she was from Long Island. She never watered down her thick New York accent. Like Rosie Perez, or Tony Danza, it was part of her schtick.
Eventually I kind of ... forgot about her? Kathy Griffin has been so much more prominent the last decade or so. Everyone including me loves Jimmy Fallon. Lately I've been digging Michael McIntyre for comedy, though I seem to be the only American who knows of him.
Recently though, Rosie was in the news for getting a divorce, and then doing a comedy special last month. I just watched it (on Youtube) and you know what? She's just as funny as she was when I was 12. Maybe I'm wildly immature, but maybe, just maybe she can appeal to a 12 year old AND a 38 year old all at the same time. I wish she did more comedy specials. I don't need to see her argue with Elizabeth Hasselback.
*The only thing I didn't like about her comedy special was how much time she spent making jokes about her 18 yr old's penis. I was embarrassed for him. Rosie O'Donnell is so funny she could have spent that time joking about so many other things without talking about that.
posted by Green at 3/08/2015 09:52:00 PM
1 Comments:
So glad to see you are back blogging again! :)
I like her, too. Haven't thought of her in a while, but always enjoyed her comedy.
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