1. Roseanne Barr began her career in stand-up comedy before gaining acclaim in the television sitcom Roseanne.
80 Facts About Roseanne Barr
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Roseanne Barr won an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her work on the show.
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Roseanne Barr referred to the tweet as a "bad joke".
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Roseanne Barr was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to a Jewish family.
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Roseanne Barr is the oldest of four children born to Helen, a bookkeeper and cashier, and Jerome Hershel "Jerry" Barr, a salesman.
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Roseanne Barr's Jewish upbringing was influenced by her devoutly Orthodox Jewish maternal grandmother.
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Roseanne Barr's parents kept their Jewish heritage secret from their neighbors and were partially involved in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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When Roseanne Barr was three, she was afflicted with Bell's palsy on the left side of her face.
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Roseanne Barr has stated that she is on the autism spectrum.
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At age 16 Roseanne Barr was hit by a car, and the car's hood ornament impaled her skull; the incident left her with a traumatic brain injury.
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Roseanne Barr's behavior changed so radically that she was institutionalized for eight months at Utah State Hospital.
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In 1970, when Roseanne Barr was 18, she moved out by informing her parents that she was going to visit a friend in Colorado for two weeks, and never returned.
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Roseanne Barr later tried out at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles, and went on to appear on The Tonight Show in 1985.
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In 1986, she performed on a Rodney Dangerfield special and on Late Night with David Letterman, and the following year had her own HBO special called The Roseanne Barr Show, which earned her an American Comedy Award for the funniest female performer in a television special.
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Barr became outraged when she watched the first episode of Roseanne and noticed that in the credits, Williams was listed as creator.
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Roseanne Barr refused to say certain lines and eventually walked off set.
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Roseanne Barr threatened to quit the show if Williams did not leave.
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Roseanne Barr won an Emmy, a Golden Globe, a Kids' Choice Award, and three American Comedy Awards for her part in the show.
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On July 25,1990, Roseanne Barr performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" off-key before a baseball game between the San Diego Padres and Cincinnati Reds at Jack Murphy Stadium.
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Roseanne Barr later said she was singing as loudly as possible to hear herself over the public-address system, so her rendition of the song sounded "screechy".
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Roseanne Barr was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress.
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Roseanne Barr appeared three times on Saturday Night Live from 1991 to 1994, co-hosting with then-husband Tom Arnold in 1992.
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That same year, Roseanne Barr became the first female comedian to host the MTV Video Music Awards on her own.
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Roseanne Barr remained the only one to have done so until comedian Chelsea Handler hosted in 2010.
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That same year, Barr hosted her own talk show, The Roseanne Show, which ran for two years before it was canceled in 2000.
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In February 2006, Roseanne Barr performed her first-ever live dates in Europe as part of the Leicester Comedy Festival in Leicester, England.
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Roseanne Barr released her first children's DVD, Rockin' with Roseanne: Calling All Kids, that month.
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Two nights earlier, Roseanne Barr had returned to primetime network TV with a guest spot on NBC's My Name Is Earl, playing a crazy trailer park manager.
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Roseanne Barr played Kathy Griffin's fairy godmother, granting her wish to be on the A-List for one night only.
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In February 2010, Roseanne Barr headlined the inaugural Traverse City Comedy Arts Festival in a project of the Traverse City Film Festival, founded by filmmaker Michael Moore.
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In 2010, Roseanne Barr appeared in Jordan Brady's documentary about stand-up comedy, I Am Comic.
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In January 2011, Barr released her third book, Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm.
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Roseanne Barr called her progressive politics the sole reason behind the pilot's rejection.
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Roseanne Barr said she was notified that the show would not be picked up due to its being labeled "too polarizing" by network executives.
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Roseanne Barr has been married three times and has five children.
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On February 4,1974, Roseanne Barr married Bill Pentland, a motel clerk she met while in Colorado.
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Roseanne Barr had met Arnold in 1983 in Minneapolis, where he opened for her stand-up comedy act.
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In 1988, Barr brought Arnold onto her sitcom, Roseanne, as a writer.
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Roseanne Barr filed for divorce from Arnold on April 18,1994 in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, citing irreconcilable differences.
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On February 14,1995, Roseanne Barr married Ben Thomas, her one-time personal security guard, at Caesars Tahoe with a reception at Planet Hollywood.
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In 2002, Roseanne Barr met Johnny Argent online after running a writing competition on her blog and began dating him in 2003, after a year of phone conversations.
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Roseanne Barr has studied Kabbalah at the Kabbalah Centre and frequently comments on the discipline.
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Roseanne Barr's sister Geraldine is a lesbian and her brother Ben is gay.
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Roseanne Barr has said that this inspired her to introduce gay characters into her sitcom and to support same-sex marriage.
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Roseanne Barr fired Geraldine, leading Geraldine to file a $70.3 million breach of contract lawsuit in Superior Court of Los Angeles County on December 18,1991.
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Roseanne Barr said Barr promised her half the earnings from the Roseanne show as recompense for helping invent the "domestic goddess" character in 1981, and for serving as "writer, organizer, accountant, bookkeeper and confidante".
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Roseanne Barr was part of an incest recovery group, something she said her parents knew about but for which they were "in denial".
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Roseanne Barr added that not everything was "made up", saying, "Nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification".
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In 1994, Roseanne Barr announced that she had dissociative identity disorder caused by childhood abuse.
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In 2015, Roseanne Barr revealed she had been diagnosed with both macular degeneration and glaucoma, and thus was gradually losing her eyesight and expected to eventually go blind.
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Roseanne Barr consumed medical marijuana to decrease her high intraocular pressure.
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Roseanne Barr later revealed that she was misdiagnosed and that her vision problem is really due to a mole resting behind her eye, which could be corrected through surgery.
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In November 2018, Roseanne Barr was said to have had a heart attack, but she later stated on social media that she was not experiencing any medical issues.
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Roseanne Barr elicited criticism in July 2009 when she posed as Adolf Hitler in a feature for the satirical Jewish publication Heeb magazine called "That Oven Feelin".
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Roseanne Barr, who is Jewish, said she was "making fun of Hitler, not his victims".
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In 2014, the parents of George Zimmerman, the man known for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, filed a lawsuit against Roseanne Barr for tweeting their home address and phone number in 2012.
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Zimmerman's parents alleged that Roseanne Barr sought to "cause a lynch mob to descend" on their home.
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In late March 2018, Roseanne Barr tweeted about a conspiracy theory involving David Hogg, a survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida.
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On May 29,2018, Roseanne Barr responded to a thread on Twitter about Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor to former President Obama.
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Roseanne Barr said she made the tweet, which she called wrong and indefensible, at 2:00 am while on Ambien, a sedative.
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Later that day, ABC canceled Roseanne Barr and removed the show's content from the network website.
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Reruns of the original Roseanne Barr were removed from the Katz Broadcasting-owned diginet Laff.
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Roseanne Barr claimed that George Soros helped Nazis to round up Jews to be sent to concentration camps.
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Roseanne Barr is Jewish, and this was part of a satirical rant about censorship on YouTube.
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Roseanne Barr was not actually denying the Holocaust, or wishing death upon Jews.
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Roseanne Barr's candidacy called attention to economics, personal health, and meditation.
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Roseanne Barr stated she would run for Prime Minister of Israel.
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Roseanne Barr filed with the Federal Election Commission as a Green Party presidential candidate in January 2012.
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Stein chose Cheri Honkala as her running-mate after campaign manager Ben Manski said Roseanne Barr was shortlisted for the job.
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Roseanne Barr was given a prime speaking role at the Green Party National Convention in Baltimore, Maryland, but decided to instead send a surrogate to speak on her behalf.
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Roseanne Barr repeatedly criticized Jill Stein after losing the Green Party nomination, and used alleged transphobic words in statements about Stein on Twitter.
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Shortly after losing the Green Party nomination, on August 4,2012, Roseanne Barr won the presidential nomination of the Peace and Freedom Party with activist Cindy Sheehan as her running mate.
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Roseanne Barr appeared on the ballot in California, Colorado, and Florida.
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Roseanne Barr did not appear on the ballot in her home state of Hawaii.
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Roseanne Barr was followed by a film crew throughout her entire campaign, with documentarian Eric Weinrib directing, leading to questions about the sincerity of her campaign.
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Roseanne Barr voiced her support for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in a June 2016 Hollywood Reporter interview.
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In May 2018, Roseanne Barr defended her support for Trump on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
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In December 2023, Roseanne Barr spoke at the Turning Point USA-hosted America Fest.
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Roseanne Barr is featured in rapper Tom MacDonald's single "Daddy's Home", released on January 17,2025; the song's name references the second inauguration of Donald Trump.
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Roseanne Barr has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on the north side of the 6700 block of Hollywood Boulevard.