“Here’s how you can tell if it’s funny,” Roseanne Barr explained in a 1995 New Yorker article. “If I say it and nobody laughs, it’s not funny.” Barr torpedoed her career with a racist tweet in 2018; at the time of the Profile, however, she ruled over television as the star of her eponymous sitcom, one of the most popular TV shows of the nineties. Read the Profile by John Lahr:
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