Rosie O’Donnell. HATE. There’s something about her voice that makes me want to punch MYSELF in the face, just so I can have different pain to focus on instead of what feels like auditory rape.
Word on the street is that she is going to host a variety show special for Thansgiving. And it’s going to be an hour long. Happily, I will be en route to GA at precisely the time it’s airing, so I won’t feel compelled to subject myself to it. This means, however, that you all need to watch it and send me stuff to mock about it.
Already showing enormous creativity, the show will be entitled Rosie’s Variety Hour. It promises a monologue (joy!), celebrity guests, musical guests, comedy skits, and giveways for people who actually show up or watch it on tv.
You know, I remember loving all the variety shows that were on when I was a kid. I remember loving the Carol Burnett show SO MUCH, and I even watched the Mandrell sisters. Seriously, I am that old. Are the Mandrell sisters even alive anymore?
Anyway, brace yourselves for Rosie.
I LOVED the Mandrell sisters! Sort of like Donny and Marie without the obvious incestuous sexual tension.
EVERYONE has a website, it seems:
http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/5424/aaindexa.htm
Upon first glance I thought it was Ron Jeremy in that picture…
Mock, you and I must be around the same age. I also loved Carol Burnett! (The Gone With the Wind skit was the funniest. Thing. EVER!) We watched the Mandrell show, too. And Sonny & Cher. I even have dim memories of watching the original Laugh In when I was a wee itty wychlet. (Apparently, I took great delight in announcing “Look THAT up in your Funk & Wagnalls” at family gatherings, but I don’t recall that.)
I sorta miss the variety shows. The attempts at reviving the genre have all fallen flat.
As for Rosie, if I had to choose between being trapped in a stalled elevator with her or with, say, Donald Trump, I’d have to choose Rosie – because I don’t want to ever be within 100 yards of that petrified roadkill that has been fused to the top of Trump’s head for the past three decades. Ick!
They probably had to refill that pool afterwards.
I think the best skit on the CB show was the dentist one
with Tim Conway and Harvey Korman.
Me too, directorevil. http://www.themockdock.com/2008/05/29/this-is-the-worst-news-ever-and-im-serious-no-snark-here/
I will agree with Jenn — I thought it was Ron Jeremy as well.. sad.
Ron Jeremy is more feminine than Rosie.