OlderRosie O’Donnell’s Variety Show Canceled!
Rosie O’Donnell tried to revive the variety show format with Rosie Live! this Wednesday. Apparently the show flopped, with only 5 million tuning in to watch the NBC special.
Rosie, 46, blogged, “There will b no more. No ratings. Bad reviews. Yet still – a thrill 4 me… If the bloggers didnt like it, I knew it didn’t work.”
The reason for the cancellation was” “Not enough rehearsal. The live part wasn’t a plus. The in-theater experience didn’t transfer to TV. It was a pilot, meaning u try it [and] see if it works. Then if they pick it up, u fix it.”
But variety shows aren’t dead! In good spirits, Rosie says, “Many people r gonna try a variety show. One will work. Ellen tonight. The Osbournes have one. John Mayer. Check them out.”
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i JUST HAVE TO SAY THIS…………………………………………………….
HAHAHA!
FAT COW
what a douche
woww…
No surprise, I didn’t watch it BECAUSE of her.
I LOVE Rosie and hated that the show failed !!!!…..She does SO much for children and other people, that I had hoped it would work out…..Unfortunately, I did not get to see her show, because we were traveling…..But, my friends that did see it, enjoyed it….Variety Shows are funny ( like Carol Burnette’s old show ), but they hard to do live…
thank god! i cannot tell you how much i hate that woman. after the way she behaved towards elisabeth on the view i’m surprised anyone would want her. there are those people who still have not forgiven her for the verbal attack on tom selleck when he appeared on her other show. to put it bluntly this woman is a b….
FAIL.
and she types like a 10 year old.
I used to like Rosie, but over the years I think she has shown her true colours. I have a lot of respect for her over the past couple of years. The fact that she keeps verbally attacking a lot of people is very distasteful.
Yeah..looks like America’s first sweetheart lesbian has been replaced by the other sweetheart lesbian. Its about time people showed her that her loud mouth opinions aren’t wanted or needed.
Whoo Hoo! Yes, Virginia….There IS a Santa Clause!
No looks, no talent, no personality, what do you expect. How did she get to where she is?
The woman SHOULD now learn that her caustic words and actions will no longer be welcomed on TV. Good riddance! You can go back being yourself again.
Serves the fat idiot pig right. She has no credibility.
5 million viewers? That’s double the number of people who watch Gossip Girl. LMAO!
Sigh…. I, too, agree with the others here: she really showed her true, rather bitchy self in the last couple of years. I’m afraid I don’t have to give her another chance. Been there, done that. No thanks.
You’re a vile man Rosie…..go home.
That fat racist (remember the horrible ching chong gong comment on the View?) deserves it. Karma is a b*tch!
“Not enough rehearsal”? No dear, its because no one likes you anymore bacause you continue to show your true colors and an angry spiteful woman who clearly holds several grudges.
Sorry, because not bacause.
i think she is a bad person. no matter how much money she donated, she’s still a horrible pig. she shows a bad image/impression to people about lesbian.
she was attacking kelly ripa for nothing. this pig is so judgemental. it’s not even funny
this pig is so judgemental.
good one Lola
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lol she blames the show??? she still thinks she is not THE problem at all.
Rosie, is a sucess, she has all you talking about her. She is doing something right! If all you dont care as you say you do, and think she is so awfull then why take the time to comment on her. The old saying “is if your booooing me at least you know what Im doing!!!!”
Wow, what hateful people.
SOMETHING CANT BE CANCELLED IF ITS NOT A SERIES!!!
IT WASNT A PILOT! it was a SPECIAL that may have been made into a show.
SO ITS NOT CANCELLED!!!!
The question that begs to be asked is; Who was the idiotic moron at NBC that OK’d putting that tired old frustrated hag on the air in the first place? Being the last place network is one thing, but being the laughng stock of sweeps month is another.
How was anyone so stupid as to think her show would work? Most people hate her. She is an angry and mean spirited b**ch. No one likes Rosie. She should pack her bags and just go home and leave us alone…..
LOL, u dezrv 2 fail, roZ!
btw, wtf w/ teh lolspeak?/!1
Rosie, before you do your next show, learn to type please.
Who cares. she sucks, always has, always will. She also just happens to be one of the 3 women i would ever lay out.
You suck rosie McDonald. eat some more
i had a feeling this would happen/ personally i tried to watch it because i heard it would have some music and comedy sketches,which sounded like Saturday Night Live or MAD TV to me. turns out all it was on comedy sketches was Rosie talking to Alec Baldwin and the like making jokes. that’s not a sketch. and there were more singing then comedy so right about 7:20 PM Central,i turned the channel. i’ll stick with SNL and MAD TV,but if Rosie decides to host again on SNL,i’ll definitely watch it,but this was a fail from the beginning.
Mikey #10… classic
I bet Karl Rove was behind the cancellation!
I would like you see you loosers try do to a live tv show in front of millions and see how well you do. Thank god she attacked that moron Elizabeth on the View…to bad she didn’t beat some sense into the right-wing little snob! Rosie will be back….you people just can’t handle a gay woman who is willing to tell you to F**K off!
she gets a free pass with the constant hate speech because of the jewish left dominating the media market. ( she speaks for many of them, especially at NBC MSNBC)
i actually watched part of it (why? its along story)and it was ******* creepy…like a drag queen acid trip but not in a cool way
Does this Rosie guy have Gigantism?
That must be the worlds largest skull.
Lucky guy probably has a large *****?
5000 idiots that watched that fat ass communist! What Losers!
SEND THE ***** ***** TO HELL WHERE SHE BELONGS….JERRY WAYNE
As much as I can’t stand that women, I wouldn’t be surprised if that douche bag of Donald Trump would take a cheap shot at her for her failed comeback. That dude needs to get a life.
I like Rosie and y’all can go to hell. Careful, she crush you with her wallet. All of the fat comments are like grade school, you be ashamed.
How shallow you are. I didn’t care for the show - it it didn’t work - it happens - so what? Grow up. Maybe a good dump will help release all bile.
I don’t hate Rosie at all but she has become a spiteful b!tch lately. I don’t know why she has to keep harping on Barbara Walters and the View. What’s up with that? She needs to just zip her mouth and disappear for awhile, give people a chance to miss her. She does have talent. I loved her in “Sleepless in Seattle.” She’s really funny when she’s not being nasty.
I forgot it was going to be on.. She spent too much time talking about the View and not promoting her show. It got lost in that drama. I will watch Ellen. I just love her and her show. John Mayer No. I think he is going to have to do a lot of PR on his show. Just because we nuts on line know about him, I could name at least 30 people who do not know him at all. Maybe Jennifer will use some of that money she never gives away to pay people to watch the show.
first of all, andrew, we are not loosers. yes it’s difficult to do a live tv show in front of millions; we get that. however there are those people who manage to do with both grace and charm; something that rosie sadly lacks. you praise rosie for attacking elisaeth on the view but guess what. elisabeth is still there and rosie was fired.
why do you think that happened?? it’s because people were sending emails, letters, phone calls to the network complaining about rosie’s behavior. you would be surprised how many people i’m talking about. many of the same people praised elisabeth on her behavior towards rosie. these people were threatening to turn off the view if rosie was not fired.
something else you should be aware of, and this i know for a fact, the view was in danger of loosing some key advertisment accounts as a result of rosie’s behavior. rosie had the job of a life time and she blew it. not because she is gay, but because of her needless venting, her inability to acknowledge that she could be wrong, and rosie’s constant harassement of anyone who did not follow her political agenda.
I liked Rosie once long long ago and never again. She turned anti-anti and gross and butch type man type female with a loud mouth that never stopped. I don’t like Rosie and for that reason I did see the show to critique it. One performance was worse than the other, they were all awful, even people I wanted to be good were the worst. And Rosie’s jokes weren’t funny, just lousy. She had her teeth lengthened so they make her look like a fat chipmonk and she rambled through the entire hour a failure. Hey, I am not laughing, but I’m delighted she failed for she’s creepy with everyone and if Elizabeth and Bawbwa and Star laugh at her, why shouldn’t they? She scoffed at them all the time and Rosie is scum, they are each much better and more talented than Rosie by miles.
Good. I hope it’s a huuuuge blow to that fat obnoxious cow’s ego. She’s a hypocrite. Post-9/11, she *says* she’s anti-guns, yet hired armed bodyguards to go around w/ her and her kids. She *says* she’s about protecting children, yet she unnecessarily circumcised her sons (circumcision is a 100% unnecessary sexually damaging human rights violation), yet extends genital integrity to her daughter.
I way underestimated the number of fools in Hollywood willing to throw money at this talentless sow.What will it take for this shrew to finally get the message: You are a vengeful,bitter, narrow minded,uneducated woman {I’m guessing} with nothing to offer.
Save your venom for your mullet haired groupies.
I am glad that now Rosie KNOWS that most of America hates her. She is always been a ugly fat cow with that awful smile. She just needs to accept that her time was with the Rosie O’Donnell show, and not now or ever again!!
HELP!
I cant stop turning over and over and over.
And they said it wouldn’t last…..looks like they were right again. F_U_C_K Rosie!!
One word most aptly sums up my feelings regarding this pronouncement; schadenfreude. Rosie is nothing more than a loudmouth, obnoxious, embittered bully. I think it is great that the people have spoken and hopefully put this $itch in her place!
HAHAHHA
GOOD!
I can’t STAND her!
You know on the internet you run into some low people but here u seem to be the worst. Some real scum. When people fail most say at least they tried, here you seem to get off on it, which really just speaks volumes to how miserable your lifes must be. Happy Holidays Scum, if you have family and friends step away from the computer screen and try real life.
we all knew this was gonna happen. she needs a talk show.
Thank God !!!! She is a rude and a ungrateful person!!!!!
If you are fat, ugly, loud and unpleasant why would you think you should be given a variety show to exhibit your unworthiness to be in the entertainment industry? Please Rosie, just go away.
I can’t believe 5 million people watched Rosie. She should be proud more than 5 people watched.
…fcuking loser. lol
Rosie is a mean homosexal lesbian who spreads indecency and endangers our children she has critcised president bush our commander in cheif during time of war this emboldens the terrorisrts and is treason
Rosie is a mean homosexal lesbian who spreads indecency and endangers our children she has critcised president bush our commander in cheif during time of war this emboldens the terrorisrts and is treason
wtf? LEARN TO TYPE ROSIE.
LOVE YOU~
She obviously needs money. She has done NOTHING for awhile now. But with this cancellation, which it is, it goes to show how every horrible thing she has done and said to alot of people just came back to bite her in the a**. She is so 2001. Gone and, thankfully, FORGOTTEN!
Well, Rosie must be doing something right if she has the right-wing wackos this upset.
Still, the show really wasn’t very good.
I turned it on and flipped the channel before Liza and Rosie finished their song, Terrible TV
Yes, there is a SANTA CLAUS!!!!!!!!
In general..like it or not, rossie O’donnell is good for tv.Yes, she speaks her mind & tells it like it is..but thats one of the things that makes her interesting.I feel she has slight mood swings just as I do so our mouths can sometimes get us both in trouble.Regarding the view, well… sorry , but I preferred her over whoopie who I feel is a racist & forever living in the past feeling “the white man” is out to put her back in chains & on the plantation, quite annoying to watch her bring race into everything. How do you get over something if you keep bringing it up like it happened yesterday.I feel sorrry for the blonde girl on the show that has to tip toe around her.And don’t they ***** & bicker just like when rossie was there..?! Infact, you can tell the producers want that friction between the ladies…so, why get rid of rossie & honestly I rarely watched the show. I’m glad rossie blasts pompus & arrogant goofs like trump.And, ms. walters, shes the B-word & so vain & arrogant with a huge—ego as she once used the ladies & the show to pimp her book a few times a day which was unreal to see, god what a shallow woman with a huge ego! God forbid if ithe book wasn’t to break the top 10 charts.She actually drags on the show & should be put out to pasture. PERIOD. So, in closing..& regarding the rossie special, it was both good & bso-soas I blame the writers.It seemed too forced with the acts etc…like a talent show.It could’ve easily been tweeked. Rossie did her best & I respect her for that.Its not easy getting in front of millions of people while your guests gave little effort to be funny etc.Conan is a joke..no talent in terms of being funny in general..compared to old schoolers.And for those who seem to love to see her slip…good god get a life.I’ve never really watched rossie beyond a few movies…& can easily say that the woman is very talented as a personality & other…compared to goofs like ellen who sickens when she dances on the show..as I tend to get sick if eating..Can’t that woman see how ridiculous she looks at her age though in her mind, shes hot & 26 as she slithers around like some outdated freak.If, theres ever a casting for gilligan’s island. Well, she looks just like him from build, face/hair & other…Oh, yea..rossie..if you’re reading this..drop me a line.I’m 45..so we grew up on the same shows & cartoons so we know whats what & whens when…gabba gabba who?
me
Thank you America…I knew this would Flop! Rosie bashes the very people that make sure she can act and be the Idiot she is.
Hahahahahaha. Epic FAIL. She annoys the hell out of me!
Just shows you she and the rest of ‘her kind’ just want to force their ugly selves into our homes, just like the other ugly (ellen).
Love Rosie! Didn’t know show was airing. Would have watched.
Looks like about 98% of you got it right. When will these self serving celebrities face the fact that just because they make a living from hard working people that seek entertainment to ease ther stressed out lives, that doesn’t give them the right to shove their over indulgent egos and opinions in our face.
Rosie, for one, is now facing the music for all the hate filled, opinionated crap she spilled out for years.
People don’t want to watch HER because she’s a terribly negative person. Also she can’t bother type out be and are, so there goes my dwindling respect for her!
How could this FAT,UGLY, BULL **** have any creditbility ? She belongs in some gay bar club bashing men and beautiful conservative women. Get a life you whale, you couldn’t get laid with a fist full of 50’s
Did not see the show, but I love Rosie.
Rosie will survive all the hate, she has before and will again.
Rosie I like that you speak your mind, instead of the fake BS that comes out of celebs mouths these days.
11/29/2008 at 8:49 pm
i will explain this to you in such simple terms that even a 5 year old will get it. rosie’s sexual orientation is not the issue here. what is the problem is how she behaves. she is rude, insulting, and inconsiderate. her behavior towards elisaeth on the view was unacceptable. i know that rosie was warned by barbara and those higher up to put an end to her attacks on elisabeth.
rosie didn’t listen, she thought she was right and everyone else wrong. the simple fact is that the majority of emails, letters, etc were demanding that the powers that be order rosie to leave elisabeth alone. rosie didn’t get the message; she was fired. do you get what i’m saying here. rosie destroyed her own career, she destroyed her own credibility all by herself.
Rosie is a disgusting POS, the BS she pulled with Tom Selleck, Kelly Ripa and Elizabeth Hasselbeck shows her true colors!
Now “Blosie” can fade away and DISAPPEAR for good.
She will end up on Obama’s Cabinet as the “Lick Master” Ambassador and to be honest, she will turn 95% of the Lesbians back to Men
Rosie has caused her own demise.
She started the fights with ALL she still blames. I cant remember one person on TV who has fought with SO many of their “co-workers”. When Rosie started her Variety show I thought “what a copy cat”.. she doesn’t have an original idea in her head.
She comes out of mothballs to do a Variety show.
Not a bad idea but what does she turn it into?
A gay-affirmation thing, a show of how she hates her own body, a chance to be a butch cop… and all this on what was supposed to be a FAMILY show..FUN.. entertainment. HA!
She lives off the fans on her blog when they aren’t what the majority of America now think of her.
When she DUG up the long-forgotten opinions about the View she asked for Barbara Walters to finally publicly NOT support her.
BW will be on Oprah to state so this week.
I watched the Variety show on Wed to TRY to give her a chance to bring back a once successful genre. And there she was, insecure, a lesbian who played the fool with Baldwin talking into her breasts.. getting a hernia trying to carry her. Did she think of becoming Bi or what?
She messed up her image when she turned so BUTCH-acting with her marriage to Kelly. They are raising 4 children who will have a hard time facing the realities of Life after having all they ever wanted from the get-go.
I am always the first one to turn the other cheek with a person because we are all afterall flawed and make out mistakes through Life.
BUT since she still chooses to make personal attacks on other public persons I have given up on her. She is RUDE, crude and obsessed with always being RIGHT.
Rosie is a self-destructive, LOST Soul who has the rest of her Life now to just go on her gay cruises, post pictures and words on her web site and maybe.. just Maybe.. one day she will take responsibility for causing her OWN downfall.
I would never watch anything that twisted individual worked on. To disrespect the 911 survivors the way she has - she deserves to be shunned forever. She’s a miserable woman who enjoys trying to make others miserable along with her. So long, Rosie. Go fall in a deep hole, will ya?!?
Well, I tuned in and the show (of which I did not watch the whole thing) was SO theatrical and corny that I turned it off. Oh and what is with Liza, she was SO shaky and hyper…..drugs? lack of drugs?
I figured it would flop but thought I’d give it a shot. Well, I did and was definitely not impressed. Just too over the top in the acting(?).
Way too theatrical!
Come on now…………I hated the show, don’t like Rosie for all the right reasons. BUT…..her sexual preference does NOT have anything to do with the contents of a failed show. Her lesbianism did not come out in her performance (which was hideous).
My husband would disagree with me, as many of you do, but that is only right…………it just doesn’t matter!
The variety show format can survive, but Rosie didn’t have a chance. People liked her when she had a daytime talk show because she was pretending to be someone she wasn’t, and people believed it. During “The View” and since then, people have learned what her true self is, and they didn’t like her. Then she tried this variety show and pretended to be that likable person again, but people didn’t buy it. The show was a flop because people don’t like Rosie any more. Now the public knows who she really is and what her true personality is, and she is probably done in entertainment. I do hope that a good variety show comes along - I’d love to see that format revivied.
seriously, die already. leave. nobody likes you.
ROTFLMAO…….if rosie wasn’s so full of herself, putting others down to build herself up, bragging about “ALL” she does maybe she would have a better chance…think about it - all her fueds…..she needs a shrink not a variety show…. I didn’t watch and was I surprised that she bombed - NOT!
ROSIE YOU ARE SO FUNNY…
YOU WILL FIND YOUR NICHE..JUST NOT ON THIS STUPID SHOW
Finally, I hope she gets the message that America is sick of her. Also, I think it is sad that she believes the show’s failure is unattributable to her. Every negative action, unsolicited self-righteous comment, & overall bad attitude has finally caught up with her and now it has effected her career. Her famous persona has rapidly transitioned into infamous status and it is well deserved. Continually, with the state of the world and many people losing their homes, jobs, and sadly lives, noone is in no mood to deal with her in any form…tv, blogs, interviews, etc…. We are sick of YOU!!!!! You she go on hiatus from the “business” , take care of your family, and reflect on your life and how you managed to get this low point.
Wow, what hateful people out there.
First of all; yes, Rosie did alienate a lot of people for her attacks on various people. That’s called “controversy” folks, and what is journalism without controversy?
Second of all, Rosie did state that her new show was all about love and not controversy so why not give her a chance.
You folks try dealing with being a lesbian in the limelight here in Homophobic America. It’s not easy, but most straights don’t get this.
Anyway, the show would have been much better if Rosie had done more comedy sketches showing off more of her talent. I can’t believe NBC is not giving it a chance.
Good effort Rosie. Don’t pack it in, in spite of what these ******* out there are posting. They’re just haters!
Wow! I’ve never seen such a bunch of critical and hate-filled individuals. You’re all displaying exactly what you hate about her. True, Rosie has had more than a few “bad days” but where is it written that every celebrity has to be Little Miss Sweetie? If it was a guy, this conversation wouldn’t even be happening. I’m not sure whether it would if she were straight, either. I forgot all about the show, and only happened to catch the last 10 minutes but I did enjoy what I saw. Still, I don’t know if the format is something that can be done today. I also think that one reason it failed is that it really wasn’t given much advertising, at least not that I saw, or maybe the ads targeted the wrong time slots so those of us who might have watched it weren’t even aware it was going to be on. Just a thought.
Rosie is a totaly discrace. Her views are so out there, that I actually was going for Donald Trump during their mud slinging match. Despite his ego. However, is was wrong for Trump to call her a “fat pig”.
Pigs are known to be very intelligent, loyal and do not mate with their own sex.
You go rosie……..let the no talents talk…..hang in there
you go girl………let those no talents rave on……don’t leave us…keep entertaining us
you go girl………let those no talents rave on……don’t leave us…keep entertaining us
The old variety shows had big name talent. Every five minutes
you were watching something that was more than just barely
entertaining. Perhaps they should have called it something else.
I admit I only watched 30 minutes.
Cancel her all the way back to hell for her vicious attacks. She is a no talent, ugly, load mouthed, obnoxious, whining, self serving, verministic swine hog that should be rode hard and put away wet by every Bull **** who wants a shot at her flabby backside. I happen to like Tom Selleck.
This no talent hack has no clue as to why people don’t watch her and her monkeys that are around her are afraid to say why. Well I’m not, it because she SUCKS!
The Show was awesome and it suck that it didn’t work. Thank God Rosie stood up to Elizabeth on the View..was so tired of hearing her dumb right wong comments. Rosie loves kids, so I hope someday she can have a show that does that.
Figures that the only network that would even give fat Rosie a shot were the left-wing loons at NBC (Nothing But Crap). What do you expect from the network that gives us haters like Keith Blabberman?
Rosie is a totaly discrace. Her views are so out there, that I actually was going for Donald Trump during their mud slinging match. Despite his ego. However, is was wrong for Trump to call her a “fat pig”.
Pigs are known to be very intelligent, loyal and do not mate with their own sex.
This is not about Rosie’s weight, the fact that she is a lesbian. This is about her behavior and thinking that her opinion about any given subject is all that matters. Demeaning and insulting people because they don’t have the same political or religious affiliations as she does and insulting Barbara Walters who happens to be an Icon in television and new history is deplorable. She deserves what she gets and it has all been brought on by her own actions. Humility goes along way Rosie.
Not enough rehearsals? How about not enough talent? Not enough estrogen? Not enough exercise? Not enough shut your fat, f’n no-talent mouth?!
This is what happens when you behave like a jack ass! I think she may have mental problems but that’s no excuse for her weird ideas and theories that are disgusting. I hope she understands this is about being hated and not about a bad format.
I bet Rosie popped a chubby when Barack HUSSEIN Obama won the election.
I think that Rosie had a great run about 10 years ago. However, like all celebs she had a down fall . She tried to get back up, and the variety show idea, is definately soemthing that I alwasy wanted to see done again. The timing is right, but there has to be more support from the people, maybe Rosie is not the host people want t o see right now, but the variety show will come back.
Rosie had some very good thoughts and ideas but no one can hear them through the screaming. In the field of cooking they say presentation is 50% of it. In the field of entertainment it may even be higher. You can still be true to yourself while changing your presentation style.
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