Rosie O'Donnell's Hysterically Ironic Lindsay Lohan Slam: 'Interest Level in Her Has Waned Significantly'
Rosie O'Donnell made an hysterically ironic comment about Lindsay Lohan on Tuesday's Today show.
While criticizing the Lifetime Network's decision to cast the embattled star as Elizabeth Taylor in an upcoming movie, the recently fired by Oprah Winfrey for terrible ratings comedienne actually said on national television, "The interest level in her has waned significantly" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
MATT LAUER, HOST: Let's wrap up with one of our favorite people. Lindsay Lohan, it was announced yesterday...
STAR JONES: Bless her heart.
LAUER: ...has been cast to play a young Elizabeth Taylor in a new movie for the Lifetime Network. Is this a good idea?
ROSIE O'DONNELL: I feel very sorry for her. I think she needs a lot of help. She needs a lot of time away.
LAUER: Is it a good idea to cast her in this movie?
Ms. O'DONNELL: No. Because she's had a lot of trouble doing every single movie, including "SNL." She was out and not at rehearsal.
DONNY DEUTSCH: I...
Ms. O'DONNELL: I think she's not in a place to work.
Ms. JONES: I used to think she was extremely talented. But I have not seen enough of her as an actress in recent years to really make an evaluation.
Mr. DEUTSCH: It's a great idea. She's our generation's Elizabeth Taylor. She's the only one that...
Ms. O'DONNELL: Oh, you're out of your mind.
Ms. JONES: Oh, my God.
Mr. DEUTSCH: No. You talk to any director...
Ms. O'DONNELL: You're a crackhead.
Mr. DEUTSCH: She's got acting...
Ms. O'DONNELL: You get out of here.
Ms. JONES: Yes.
Mr. DEUTSCH: You know, we were doing fine in this segment before you showed up. We were doing just fine.
Ms. O'DONNELL: The last thing she did good she was 16.
Mr. DEUTSCH: She's a great actress and she's got all that sensation. She's great--she's great...
Ms. JONES: How do we know she's a great actress?
LAUER: So wait a second.
Mr. DEUTSCH: Because you talk to any director, she is.
LAUER: Are you saying she's good for it because she's right for the role or will bring attention to the movie?
Mr. DEUTSCH: Both, both. And I think she's going to be this generation's in real life, Elizabeth Taylor.
Ms. JONES: So clearly...
Ms. O'DONNELL: I don't think she's right for the role and I don't think she's capable at this point of doing what's needed to portray that character.
Mr. DEUTSCH: I disagree.
Ms. JONES: He is so clearly an ad man because you are looking at this as a marketing opportunity and it works.
Mr. DEUTSCH: No, no, you talk to any director in Hollywood and see if she's a great actress.
LAUER: Given what she's been through over the last several years, when you attach her to a movie project does she attract viewers or repel viewers?
Ms. O'DONNELL: I think neither. I think kind of the interest level in her has waned significantly.
Mr. DEUTSCH: Not at all, it attracts.
Ms. JONES: I think she's going to attract viewers, but I don't think that it's going to be for her talent. It's going to be for the train wreck that they're trying to see.
Mr. DEUTSCH: Both.
Ms. O'DONNELL: Right and on "SNL" it wasn't as though she delivered. People watched expecting, hoping, wishing.
Mr. DEUTSCH: You lean in.
Ms. O'DONNELL: But, you know.
Mr. DEUTSCH: You lean in.
Ms. O'DONNELL: I don't know, she needs a lot of help.
Pot - meet kettle.
As NewsBusters reported last month, O'Donnell was canned by Winfrey due to her show's lousy ratings.
Prior to that, her 2008 variety show on NBC was such a flop the network chose not to pick it up as a series.
And let's not forget her basically being booted from ABC's The View for her atrocious behavior.
Let's face it - Rosie O'Donnell has become the female version of Keith Olbermann: she alienates everyone she works with and then gets dumped.
Yet she still goes on national television pointing out other people's publicity problems.
Might be the funniest thing she's ever said.
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Comments
Lohan and O'Donnell should
Submitted by redfish on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 7:41pm.
Lohan and O'Donnell should start dating.
Might be how,
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 7:49pm.
This all got started, huh, ever think of that?
Horrible image.
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 8:59pm.
Can you imagine anyone locking lips with Not So Rosy?
Lohan
Submitted by bobsmom on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 7:56pm.
at least has a chance at a life if she cleans up her act, Rosie, on the other hand, will always be ugly of heart and visage. All she has left is jealousy and hate. I'm no Lohan fan by any means, but I'd root for her to get sober, and recapture success just to rub old Rosie's face in the puckies.
And your point?
Submitted by TexasLadyPatriot43 on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 7:59pm.
Yeah, yeah ... whatever! NEXT???
Rosie thinks she's better
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 8:15pm.
Rosie thinks she's better than Lohan because she (Rosie) has marks all over her where she's been touched with a ten-foot pole.
: ], reminds me
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 9:28pm.
Of,,,,, be one heck of a contest!
All that talk about Lohan needing help?
Submitted by Radical1979 on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 8:22pm.
Back at you Rosie. You always seem to be on the verge of a meltdown.
Cut her a break, Rad.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 8:33pm.
Rosie has had a tough time adapting to what we call marriage.
In fact, she's in a league of her own, currently batting zero.
Both are disgusting in their own ways
Submitted by bohratom on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 8:50pm.
Come on Newsbusters we can do better then a story like this where they both do not deserve any publicity.
Progressives have no...
Submitted by almostacowboy on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 8:54pm.
..sense of irony. Bull dikes even less so.
Take-aways
Submitted by CO2Maker on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 9:28pm.
1. O'Donnell is an unpleasant creature, but I'll give her props for being plain spoken. To Deutsch, "You're out of your mind! ... You're a crackhead!" Gotta luv that.
2. Lauer is a sanctimonious, condescending, self-important a******. "Let's wrap up with one of our favorite people." Oh, ha ha, Lindsay Lohan, the human haywire from Spike TV! Nyuk nyuk nyuk.
When Deutsch put his hand on O'Donnell's thigh,
Submitted by Sancho Panza on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 7:31am.
watch what she did with it. Definitely the best part of the clip.
Does anyone think that he would do that with Star Jones?
No, she grabbed his hand and put it there
Submitted by CO2Maker on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 10:18am.
"You want a piece of me, Deutsch?" she challenged him!
BTW, in the long shots, she looked a whole lot like Roseanne Barr. Whew, Roseanne O'Donnell, what a morph that would be.
Rosie!
Submitted by robjh22 on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 9:43pm.
They should let Rosie play Elizabeth Taylor. Of course, they'd have to get a Clydesdale for her to ride in the National Velvet sequences ... then shoot it at the end of the race.
Rooting for Lindsay
Submitted by Cae on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 9:54pm.
I do not know why but I keep hoping this kid turns it around. I have known many self destructive people who would never hurt anyone else. She is that kind of person. Rosie on the other hand can't do or say enough to spread her misery around. I also think Rosie thinks Lindsay has been in lesbian relationships for attention and only she (Rosie) can define what makes someone a real lesbian. I think Lindsay is longing for a replacement for the family bonds she can't get from her demented parents.
Rosie the new Edward R Murrow?
Submitted by Metsie62 on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 9:59pm.
Rosie just got fired by Oprah....why is NBC trolling with her on the Today Show...unless there is a chance of her getting a show on MCESSPOOLNBC
Rosie's irony aside, she's
Submitted by balboa on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 10:00pm.
Rosie's irony aside, she's right. Whoever thought it was a good idea to cast Lohan is an idiot. She probably won't even be able to make it through filming.
Who cares?
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 10:56pm.
They are both dumb as dirt. Please dont tell me you havent noticed!
I think you are wrong
Submitted by oldfart on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 6:26am.
Normal dirt is populated with living creatures. I am not sure that either of these 'ladies' have enough combined brain power for a flat worm.
I also agree - Hollyweed is really out of touch to cast Lindsay in that role.
Gee - Hollywood out of touch - sorry folks - didn't mean to state the obvious.
Let's
Submitted by grammajane on Thu, 04/26/2012 - 10:50pm.
see now. ABC had bath-tub boy as a "guest" now nbc has the biggest mouth on TV as a "guest" It's no-wonder these talk shows don't have an audience when they have has-beens/failures trying to make conversation and nothing of any interest comes out of their mouths
Kettle meet cracked.. Pot.
Submitted by USA4freedom on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 12:49am.
Kettle meet cracked.. Pot.
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, the Republican party.
???
Submitted by retrocon on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 9:12am.
Rosie who?
O
Submitted by CO2Maker on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 4:49pm.
Olbermann.
Remember him? ABC's trying to resuscitate his career, too. Must be mercy-invitation season for liberals on TV. When will we see Run-down Ricky Sanchez?
I really do believe that
Submitted by Soldat44 on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 10:11am.
I really do believe that Lindsay is a good person who got caught up in drugs and is struggling very hard to get away from them and live a somewhat 'normal' life. It's not easy. My own son struggled for years and is still not out of the woods with his addiction. Drugs can make you do things that you would never dream of. It's heartbreaking, believe me...
I pray for Lindsay and I hope that she can break this strangle hold of addiction.
Rosie, well, that's totally different. She knows better and refuses to be kind and open her heart for others. No contrition there at all.
As much as I hate Fat Rosefed O'Donuts,,
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 10:24am.
And I disagree with eveything she says and stands for, she happens to be right about Lohan! Lindsay is a mess, and if she doesnt get help, or straighten out her life, or someone to go "tough love" on her, then she will no longer be with us shortly. Hopefully, the bottom of the barrel was Rosie ripping her-you cant get much lower than that!
Coming from someone with zero
Submitted by John21 on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 11:45am.
Coming from someone with zero interest level and who's career only exist because of the need for the media to find propaganda this is a sick joke right?
Though I really don't care what Ms. Jones, Ms. O'donnell, or Ms Lohan does or says I just think it is funny when has beens and never weres comment on one of their own kind.