We're not too proud to admit that we cry our own body weight in tears every single day that Rosie O'Donnell isn't on TV – but Rosie might be making her comeback sooner than expected, as the cheery host of gameshow The Price Is Right.
Yes, The Price Is Right. Thanks to a comment by just-retired The Price Is Right host Bob Barker, it seems as if Rosie O'Donnell is first in line to replace him. That's obnoxiously overbearing opinion-spewer Rosie O'Donnell – a woman who is only able to last a total of 3.2 nanoseconds without getting so angry about the war that her hair catches fire – presenting The Price Is Right, a lightheartedly materialistic knockabout gameshow known in this country for being presented by Joe Pasquale. Seriously, if Noam Chomsky hadn't just been announced as the new host of Supermarket Sweep, we don't know how we'd have coped with this news at all.
In her time, it's probably fair to say that Rosie O'Donnell has had her fingers in many pies. And eaten many pies. And had her fingers in many lesbians. And done a bunch of different jobs. In the past Rosie O'Donnell has been a stand-up comedian, a Hollywood actress, a koosh ball-loving fluffy daytime TV talkshow host, a Broadway producer, a charity giant, a children's award show host and the subject of her own magazine – but ask people now who Rosie O'Donnell is and they'll most likely tell you that she's the woman who had an annoying screechfest with a pro-gun nutter on The View.
Between her blog and her stint on The View, Rosie O'Donnell somehow managed to transform herself from a woman who often remarked on how cute Tom Cruise was to a brawling, seething walking opinion who didn't care if she annoyed Donald Trump or egged on Danny DeVito to vomit inside his own mouth. But now Rosie's going to try and make another transformation, this time into a gurning gameshow host as the presenter of The Price Is Right. At the Daytime Emmy Awards on Friday, recently retired host of The Price Is Right Bob Barker seemed to think that Rosie O'Donnell would slot in perfectly. MSNBC reports:
“I believe they’re going to have a meeting with Rosie… She knows the show,” he said. “There’s no doubt in my mind she could do the show. Now, whether they want a lady host, I don’t know. I’ve never heard that discussed. As far as I know, they’ve only auditioned men." Barker said his friendship with O’Donnell goes back several years, when she had him as a guest on her old daytime talk show. “She told me she loved ‘The Price Is Right’ and wanted to host it one day,” he recalled.
So it's not even clear if Rosie O'Donnell will even reach the audition stage for The Price Is Right, and it'd be a genuine shame if she doesn't. All good shows need change and it goes without saying that The Price Is Right would benefit from the addition of an overweight lesbian who 50% of people can't stand and a further 48% put up with solely because they're vaguely aligned to her political beliefs.
There'd need to be a few changes to the format if Rosie O'Donnell became the host, however – Bob Barker's famous catchphrase of "Come on down!" would need to be amended to "Come on down, unless you oppose homosexual adoption, are pro-life or own a gun in which case just sit where you are while I loudly lecture you about exactly why I am right and you are so very wrong!" plus the only thing the contestants would ever try to guess the price of is the ever-increasing cost of the war in Iraq.
However, so long as that stops Rosie O'Donnell from playing Cyndi Lauper music videos on The Price Is Right as much as she does on her blog, we're completely cool with it.
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Marjore Mckay says
I alway’s watch the Price is Right, but if Rosie O’Donnell is put in as host, I will not watch it again.
Gale says
I think that Rosie is great for the Price is Right. She is soo funny and yet she will not have any situations where she will be
able to get into arguments, voice her opinion which seems to get her into trouble. We will be able to have our Rosie back
in her rare form.
Please do not let them pick John O’Hurley!
kate says
New pictures from the Mars rover prove that there’s water, maybe NASA or the ESA can send her to do some sampling that way it would take about 3 years for her blathering to get back to us.
Tom Fuller says
I strongly agree with Marjore McKay: ” I alway’s watch the Price is Right, but if Rosie O’Donnell is put in as host, I will not watch it again.”
It’s sickening to even think CBS could be stupid enough to even consider her.
Hazel says
Please, oh please DO NOT let Big Mouth
rosie on the Price is Right. My Mother LOVES
that show and she would never watch it
again if she is on there. She’s not watching
the reruns……
Walt Bailey says
Rosie is obese. I will be offended it CBS places an obese person on a popular TV show. They will not allow a program host to smoke cigarettes, why would they support obesity, which is just as much of a health hazard. What will placing an obese person on TV and popularizing her/him, say to the millions of youth that are dealing with obesity.
sk8rgurl says
I’m with you Kate…let’s send her to Mars….it just makes me so happy i’ve got a day job and don’t Tivo the Price is Right because i personally would never intentionally watch that fat tub o’lard blather on about anything….ever.
Fred O'Donnald says
Why doesn’t she just go on welfare since that is usually where women go that have no talent or skills and are either too lazy or too stupid to learn any trade.
She can live like the typical white trash single mother red-neck lesbian she really is.
Carole Houck says
IF ROSIE IS HIRED FOR THE PRICE IS RIGHT, I WILL NEVER WATCH THE SHOW AGAIN AND SEVERAL OTHERS THAT IKNOW OF WILL NOT WATCH IT AGAIN. PLEASE DO NO RUIN A GREAT SHOW WITH THAT BIG MOUTH, SHOULD BE ARRESTED FOR TREASON, PERSON.
shadowgirl says
Unlike Walt Bailey: I do not think it should matter if a person is obese as she (Rosie) is not obscenely obese. But she is an obscene obnoxious person. And my husband and I will never watch that show again. And we watch everyday including the reruns. To think that she thinks someone is homophobic because you don’t want a person (straight or gay) putting his hand over your mouth.
Arthur Sarzen Sr. says
This would probably the worst thing that C.B.S. ever did for there viewers. She is a looser. stop the insanity she is no ggod for any show. Let her just fad away. That would be the best thing for evryone and her. OUT, FINISHED, OVER, OUT, RETIRE.
Arthur Sarzen Sr. says
Rosie SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!