Roseanne Barr Returns to Stand-Up Stage at Laugh Factory With Andrew Dice Clay
Jeremy Fuster
Comedians Roseanne Barr and Andrew Dice Clay announced Sunday that they will be going on tour together.Three months after Barr and Clay appeared together onstage in Las Vegas, Clay spoke with Fox News, saying that their tour — titled the “Mr. and Mrs. America Tour” — aims to strike back at what he sees as increasing political correctness against comedians. The tour will begin in September in Long Island and Atlantic City, with tickets going on sale June 29.“She’s a comic because she’s wacky. I’ve known her since we were kids,” Clay said.Also Read: Roseanne Barr Returns to Stand-Up Stage at Laugh Factory With Andrew Dice ClayBack in March, Barr took the stage as a surprise guest during Clay’s stand-up performance at the Tropicana Laugh Factory in Las Vegas, marking her first public performance since ABC cancelled “Roseanne” back in May 2018 over a racially-charged tweet she posted about former Obama White House adviser Valerie Jarrett. Barr also lost a potential gig at the Tropicana over the tweet, as well as her representation by ICM Partners.When asked about it, Clay says, “She’s a comic!’ We gotta stop policing comedians. This is America!”“I was given a little flak about this, a little bulls–t, when I pulled her onstage at the Laugh Factory in Vegas, but we’ve been friends for 30 years,” Clay said.Also Read: Roseanne Barr Says Anti-Semitism 'Played a Large Part' in Her Firing by ABC“She’s an original I’m an original and people should just stop reading Twitter. Calm down with your political conversations. Whoever is running the country, nobody else’s life changes. We still gotta go out there and make a living. Enjoy your family, enjoy your friends, bang your chicks and make your money.”Barr, meanwhile, went on her own series of standup shows last month and hasn’t backed off on making heated comments to the media. Two weeks before her reunion with Clay, Barr said in a YouTube interview that the women who accused Louis C.K. of sexual harassment wanted to trade sexual favors for money,“If you don’t run out the room, and go, ‘Excuse me, you don’t talk to me that way, you don’t do that to me, excuse me,’ and leave, but you stayed around because you’re like, ‘I thought maybe he was gonna give me a writing job,’ well you ain’t nothing but a ho.”Read original story Roseanne Barr and Andrew Dice Clay Announce Comedy Tour At TheWrap
Roseanne Barr made a surprise return to the stand-up stage at Tropicana’s Laugh Factory on the Vegas Strip Saturday during a set by her friend and fellow comedian Andrew Dice Clay.
Clay posted a video of Barr’s guest appearance on his Instagram account, along with a photo of the venue’s owner interrupting Clay’s comedy set to tell him that Barr was backstage.
“I’ve got a special treat for everybody,” the “A Star Is Born” actor told the audience. “A close friend of about 33 years. She’s a comedian, and there haven’t been many as controversial, as outspoken, and as f—ing funny…let’s hear it for Roseanne Barr!”
Last May, Barr was being considered for the Tropicana’s Laugh Factory Present series, but lost the potential gig after ABC fired her over a racially-charged tweet she posted about former Obama White House adviser Valerie Jarrett. The tweet also cost Barr her representation, as ICM Partners dropped her as a client.
Barr has a stand-up tour set for this May, close to the one-year anniversary of her firing. But the comedian has continued to make heated comments, like accusing Louis C.K.’s accusers of wanting to trade sexual favors for money.
“If you didn’t say no, just stayed there to get along, you’re a ho,” she told the Sunday Times. “Men are hos too. There’s a total ho mentality. ‘What am I going to get for trading sexual favours?’ Not that I’ve got anything against hos. Not real hos.”
