Untitled Roseanne Barr comedy series

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Roseanne Barr Plots Comeback With New Comedy Series, About a Family Who ‘Saves America With Guns, the Bible, Petty Crime and Alcoholism’

Roseanne Barr tells Variety that she wrote a new comedy series with “Roseanne” and “Arli$$” alum Allan Stephan and is about to take it to market.

The new series, which will star Barr and be four to six episodes in line with the U.K. comedy format, is “a cross between ‘The Roseanne Show’ and ‘The Sopranos,’” she says, and centers on a small-town farmer in Alabama who is “saving the United States from drug gangs and China.” The protagonist dabbles in growing and selling drugs like cannabis and magic mushrooms.

“It’s silly and out there,” she says. “[It will contain] very offensive ideas and a lot of swearing. I live with my daughter and her husband and their six children on a farm. And they have goats running through their house and stuff. It’s based on my life as a farmer in Hawaii. They save America with guns, the Bible, petty crime and alcoholism. It’s kind of like the Coen brothers thing.”