Comedy

10 things

you never knew about the titular star of Roseanne Barr: Domestic Goddess Live

Julie Seabaugh

• She actually coined the “Domestic Goddess” phrase

• Her 2003 cooking show, also titled Domestic Goddess, was sidelined by a case of food poisoning

• She is the author of two best-selling books

• Pal Louie Anderson first encouraged her to audition at LA’s famed Comedy Store

• Her eponymous sitcom won two Emmys, three Golden Globes and a Peabody

• Comedy Central ranked her No. 9 on its “100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time” list

• She was the second woman ever roasted by the Friars Club

• The DVD Rockin’ with Roseanne: Calling All Kids! features such ditties as “Peanut Butter and Jelly Fish” and “Down on the Donut Farm”

• She composed and posted her own obituary on roseanneworld.com last August

• That National Anthem rendition was actually—as it was intended to be—kinda funny

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