Let's be "The Rosie O'Donnell Show"!

I'm a Koosh Ball.

I’m Drake’s Ring Dings… one package for every audience member!

I’m Ellen, giving Rosie the exclusive scoop on how my tv character will be revealed this season to be Lebanese.

I'm Rosie's crush on Tom Cruise so everyone thinks I'm straight.

I'm the items she will put up on eBay later.

I'm "Tommy Can You Hear Me." That stupid song she'd play to try to get Tom Cruise on the show. It used to irritate the hell outta me.

I’m Barbra Streisand.

I'm the terrified smile of her poor bandleader-stooge, John McDaniel, which lets you know it's been a very tense day offset.

I'm Broadway star, Miss Toni Collette...

I'm the Chub Club!

I'm the tension on set so thick you can cut it with a knife. Nervous laughter at every turn!

I’m the happy news that Parker is getting an adorable little sister, Chelsea!

I'm "Just say Nope to Scope!"

I'm the genuine enthusiasm Rosie showed for Broadway plays, like here, where she proudly introduced the excellent opening number from "Ragtime". I still don't know how they managed to perform it so well on that small TV stage.

I’m the Mary coming out of this big bear after Rosie scolded him.

I shall forever be the object of Rosie's crush!

We're the cancer cells, lying in wait for application as needed

I'm the life long wealth it created for Rosie.

I'm the weird, pointy-finger, hand rolling gesture she made with her arms when walking out on stage.

I'm Leif Garrett, interviewed with a fresh crack pipe burn on my right cheek.

I'm Tom Selleck. Fuck all y'all.

I’m the loud fart she accidentally let out on show #486.

I'm the marketing exec for Scope who just lost his job.

I'm a pantsuit.

I attended a taking. Andre Bauer (full), Helen Hunt (wildly unfunny iceberg), and Xena herself, Miss Lucy Lawless (fun!).

During the commercials, she dropped her nice mask. She started asking us (the audience) for advice on what to do about her profoundly traumatized infant she’d just adopted. She ended up giving the kid back. Mia, I think was the kid’s name.

A mess.

Im an Eldergay. Who cannot see even WITH my glasses.

I attended a TAPING

Bauer was DULL

I'm that one time she and Madonna hung out, so thai Rosie can pretend they are BFFs and brag to her audience about it.

I'm Donny Osmond, forced to humiliate myself and dress as a dog singing "Puppy love" on her show to do penance after I nearly ended my career by talking smack about Rosie.

Isn't that hard to believe? Yet it happened.

I'm Precious Feliciano. The NYPD Choir wrote a song about me, as they did for many other children who had lived through traumatic crimes, and performed it on Rosie's show. The audience wept as the female officer wailed a stirring gospel number titled "Precious, You're So Precious," all about my love for cartoons and macaroni & cheese. But there was at least one hateful maricón watching at home who fell off his couch from laughter.

I don't blame you, r29. Jesus Christ

I’m the young woman from the audience selected to be the opening announcer whom Rosie berates for going to a community college instead of a “better” college.

I’m the Rosie Magazine that she fucked up.

I’m the distinct Suffolk County Irish brassiness.

🎵 TOMMY CAN YOU HEAR ME? 🎵

I'm Tickle Me Elmo

We're the thousands of lesbians whose career prospects as talk show hosts have crashed & burned thanks to the one-two evil-cunt combo of Rosie & Ellen. You bitches are why they hate us!

I'm the Coney Island model behind Rosie's desk.

We’re the “Ed Sullivan Show” traffic lights-style stage curtains that the show seemed somehow to have appropriated.

I only saw one episode and she was interviewing a guy pretending to be Santa. Was that level of corniness typical for her show?

Yes, R39, she really wanted to have a children's show, and ultimately she got it with "Kids are Punny". She loved kids and lived in that world for a long time. She felt as a celebrity she could make things more silly and childlike. It sometimes worked, and other times it was just cheesy.

I´m the musical director who has to laugh like crazy at every joke Rosie cracks

....ore else

I’m the large lineup of theatre stars few other shows would book.

I'm staff writer Seth Rudetsky, later to become the Queen (literally) of SiriusXM!

Here she is turning the Broadway musical "Titanic" from struggling show to Tony Award winner.

I am Rosie's weird eidetic memory that allows her to be cast in The Cat In The Hat on Monday and perform on Friday.

To scan sheet music and sing and dance to choreography immediately after watching.

R44. Mmmmm...Titanic had quite the attractive male cast.

I am Rosie's complete lack of singing and dancing talent, even though she is for some reason cast in the lead in The Cat in the Hat.

I never saw her show, I worked long hours back then.

I'm Rosie's campaign to have Flintstones Vitamins to dump the car and replace it with Betty.

I’m the cartoon Rosie in the original opening, where she runs around in a red dress and says, “Mmmmmm… PIE!”

We know what THAT means...

What was the big beef between Rosie and Donald Trump back then? I know Trumpy tends to be an asshole but what was crawling up his ass? Some time in the 2000s Rosie and Trump were having a public cat fight and I never quite understood why. Some joke she made that his fragile ass couldn’t handle?

I'm the not-very-subtle transformation of the set that had the guest chair moved to stage left. Rosie wouldn't admit it at first, but this was done simply to accommodate Streisand's appearance and Streisand's stipulation that the guest chair be repositioned to show off her "good side."

I'm fat

I'm Streisand, making sure I position myself as far away from this wack-job as possible. I only do this show because I'm now in my mid-50s, my fanbase is dying off, and I have CDs to sell. Rosie has a huge audience of all ages, so...why not ? Let's see if my new CD 'Higher Ground' can make it to #1 with this appearance. (It does).

I'm David Evanegilista.

Davie looks like Jimmy Fallon sniffing cookies.

I'm Ellen de Generes waiting to fill her slot.

I'm the constant sobbing when Streisand appeared on the show

I'm the occasional thoughtful or revelatory interview she'd do, or the actually interesting guest she'd have on every so often.

(Was never a Rosie fan, but she did have some decent taste every so often.)

[quote] Andre Bauer

Do you mean Andre Braugher?

I'm the theme to Maude.

[quote]I'm the constant sobbing when Streisand appeared on the show

C'mon, this is a gay gossip site, which means we love celebs. The whole Streisand story is cool. She associated her growing up with her mother. Barbra's music was always playing in her house. She grows up, gets to meet her idol and years later when Streisand was touring in Florida she actually stayed at Rosie's Star Island mansion while Rosie wasn't there and slept in her bed. She even signed a giant "Funny Gil" poster that Rosie had framed and hanging.

Babs. Ro.

I'm the sound board she's constantly using like a morning zoo disc jockey.

I'm Mike Douglas.

I’m making you feel ok hanging with a lez , or at least doing my best to help you forget, by talking about how much I love Tom Cruise.

I’m the pussy smell.

LEZtastic!

I’m Caroline Rhea waiting in the wings.

I'm the special episode where Rosie interviews Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. All I do is talk about the Sound of Music and quiz the actors on the film.... Chris and Julie are trying their best to be polite.

High class meets low class.

R63, amazing how young everyone looks! At the time, I thought everyone was so old

I’m her homosexual band leader. John something.

Old!

R72 John McDaniel - known as 'John Mc D and the DLTs' on her show. It was no secret they hated each other.

He is also the musical director of many B'way shows, including 1999's "Annie Get Your Gun". Funny, he didn't suggest Rosie for the musical when they were rotating star names in and out of the show.

Wasn't the McDLT a burger at McDonalds?

R75 It sure was - so you know where Rosie's mind was when she nicknamed his little band 'John McD and the DLTs'.

Why did John hate Rosie?

She had Streisand on twice. The second time she went to Streisand's home to do the interview, where she bragged on her show how she took toilet paper off of Streisand's roll in the bathroom as a memento. She even showed the audience the paper. The best part was she attempted to surprise Streisand with a cake from her favorite bakery, but it turned out not to be Streisand's favorite, and Rosie was visibly fuming that she had gotten the wrong cake. Streisand had to calm her down.

Still love Rosie though. She can do no wrong in my eyes.

[quote]The best part was she attempted to surprise Streisand with a cake from her favorite bakery, but it turned out not to be Streisand's favorite, and Rosie was visibly fuming that she had gotten the wrong cake. Streisand had to calm her down.

"Listen Rosie, Boobalah, I'm going to be honest with you. This cake is NOT from my favorite bakery. I will let you know that I appreciate the thought and that was very kind of you. So you get that much. Now I'm just going to dump it in the garbage."

Listen to these fat whores turning the discussion to McDonald’s!

"Also, Rosie, here's a can of corn soup darling"

[quote]What was the big beef between Rosie and Donald Trump back then? I know Trumpy tends to be an asshole but what was crawling up his ass? Some time in the 2000s Rosie and Trump were having a public cat fight and I never quite understood why. Some joke she made that his fragile ass couldn’t handle?

R51, it's all covered in the link below.

Barbra stayed at Rosie's house in Florida, and everyone knew about it as Rosie told everyone.

Barbra stayed at ONJ's ranch outside of Sydney, when Barbra performed in Sydney in March, 2000 and no one knew - ONJ kept it secret. It was Barbra who pointed out ONJ sitting in the front row of the concert on her last performance there, and then 'thanked her friend Olivia Newton-John' for letting her stay in her beautiful ranch while performing in Australia. ONJ acknowledged she opened her home to Barbra, and that was that.

What a difference between Rosie and ONJ.

[quote] Why did John hate Rosie?

IIRC, it had to do with 'creative control' over the music. She hired him to be her musical director for the show (playing 'bumper music' between segments, warming up the audience before the show started with music and singing, etc.) but it was said he couldn't make any decisions on his own - everything had to go by her and get approval. Understandably, this caused a lot of friction between the two which also spread through the rest of the crew. I don't think he was disappointed when she called it quits.

John McDaniel sucks cock. Rosie doesn’t. Rosie eats snatch. John doesn’t.

snatch

ONJ was one of a kind.

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