Sitcom sadism: Rosie O’Donnell, Fran Drescher to team up
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And just when you thought it was safe to go back on the boob tube … (cue John Williams score)
Yes, it’s true: Rosie O must be going through some kind of Joy Bahar withdrawl. Why else would she choose to team up with the equally annoying yenta, Fran Drescher, for a sitcom about three best friends.
O’Donnell, who lives in South Nyack, confirmed that she’s working on the new show via her blog. All of which set of a deluge of comments on “Ask Ro”:
“Ro, is it true you and Fran are going to do a sitcom or are you just teasing us?” one wrote.“True,” said Rosie.
“OMG. . . . you and Fran are going to be the new Lucy and Ethel! I am about to bust at the thought of it,” wrote another fan.
O’Donnell’s reply: “Honey, sign me up.”
Yeah, um, am I the only one who sees this as the god awful idea that it really is? Rosie on MSNBC—that I could see. Rosie as the host of “The Price is Right”—that had a kind of twisted logic, too. Even resurrecting “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” might make sense financially. But this new show, apparently initiated by Drescher, sounds like a nightmare. Even if you took Ro’s best moments from “Nip/Tuck” and crossed them with Drescher’s least annoying spots on “The Nanny,” you’d still have a cross between “Nip/Tuck” and “The Nanny.”
So with that, I’m prepared to declare that the Rosie renaissance has officially jumped the shark. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
“O’Donnell, Drescher may star in new sitcom” [Los Angeles Times]
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