Roseanne Barr Fox Information Comedy Particular Debut Date Set by Fox Nation – The Hollywood Reporter

Roseanne Barr’s return to stand-up comedy is getting a lift from Sunday’s NFL NFC championship recreation.

The Hollywood Reporter has discovered that Fox will use right this moment’s NFC Championship Sport between the San Francisco 49ers and the Philadelphia Eagles to launch a advertising marketing campaign for Barr’s comedy comeback effort, which can be known as Roseanne Barr: Cancel This!

The 15 second advert sees Barr stepping as much as the microphone on stage, earlier than asking the group “has anyone else been fired just lately?”

Cancel This! will debut on the Fox Nation streaming service Feb. 13, and can be Barr’s first comedy particular since Blonde and Bitchin’, aired on HBO in 2006. The brand new particular was taped in entrance of a dwell viewers at Houston’s Cullen Theatre, and the streaming service will launch a particular known as Who Is Roseanne Barr? together with the mission.

Fox Nation announced the special final fall, successfully kicking off a notable funding in comedy programming, past what the Fox News super-fan service had hosted beforehand.

In actual fact, the service has just lately been leaning into expertise that might be recognizable to normal leisure followers. Along with the Barr particular, Fox Nation has hosted a docuseries about Yellowstone Nationwide Park hosted by Yellowstone star Kevin Costner, whereas Frasier star Kelsey Grammer has fronted a sequence on historic battles.

But it surely’s Barr who’s getting the NFL promotional therapy, a major stage for the comedy particular.

Within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties Barr was considered one of Hollywood’s most prolific stand-up comics and actors. Her sitcom Roseanne ran for 9 seasons in its preliminary run, and was revived in 2018, turning into a breakout for ABC. Nonetheless, the community canceled the series after she despatched a tweet about Obama aide Valerie Jarrett that was broadly seen as racist. ABC brought back the present as The Conners, with out Barr.