Rosie, Roseanne, and the Llamas

November 08, 2007

Sorry for my blogging absence through October. I am in the middle of planning my wedding, studying for the GMAT, and convincing my girlfriend NAM that we should own a llama farm in South Jersey. I will keep you all posted on how they all work out.

But alas I am back and ready to go…

Last night NAM and I went to the NY Comedy Festival to go see Rosie O'Donnell perform. As a fan of Vh1's Stand-up Spotlight (I always thought it was the coolest thing to see a woman in a tuxedo) we did what every other young lesbian in NY would, we purchased the cheapest tickets and sat in the rafters to see Rosie speak her mind. I have to admit I was intrigued by how young and hip the audience was in our section, it was like going to an Indigo Girls concert except everyone was in better clothes.

To start, Rosie walked out to Eminem's "Without Me" and high-fived the front row .

To everyone's surprise , she announced that she wasn't going to talk about "The View." She said it "was over" and she preceded to move on by talking about Kabbalah and how the red string everyone wears costs $32 dollars. From family life to politics, she was exactly what made her so great on daytime TV last year and a reminder of what we are missing this year.

45 Mins into her set, she talked about when she was touring around the country in the 80's there were so few female comics in the circuit that they never got to work together. She mentioned how one time she saw on a bill that another woman was performing and her name Roseanne (Rosie's given name). This comic had just been picked to perform on Johnny Carson and a few years later had her own hit series.

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