Roseanne is back with vengeance. Journalism collapses on all sides.

And Senator Ted Cruz stops by, so we've got a big show for you.

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show.

I do have many, many, many thoughts on the Roseanne premiere. It had huge ratings.

We'll get into all of that. I do think it's an important cultural moment, but not quite in the way that I think a lot of Republicans want it to be a huge cultural moment. First, I want to say thank to our sponsors over at tripping.com. So when you plan a vacation, finding a place to stay that will make everybody happy is usually really difficult, particularly for the right price. And if you have a family, this is certainly true. If you have small kids and you're staying in a one bedroom, hotel room, it is just disastrous, which is why you need tripping.com, because tripping.com lets you compare every home from the world's top vacation rental sites in one place to find the best deal on your perfect vacation rental. My wife and I only use vacation rentals now. We need a kitchen so that we can actually cook, and we need a couple of bedrooms so that we can sleep, because otherwise our kids will keep us up the entire night and scream at us. So, this is what tripping.com is for. Vacation rentals are better. We're talking with more privacy, more space for everyone under one roof. You really haven't experienced a great vacation until you have done one outside of a hotel room and instead go on to tripping.com

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so it's been 21 years since Roseanne Barr was on the air with a regular sitcom. She did some reality,

TV stuff, but she wasn't world famous anymore. And now she's back, and she's back with a vengeance

because the ratings on her show were just unbelievable. Looking at the ratings right now on

Roseanne's show,

the revival of Roseanne premiered to a massive ratings. We are talking from Entertainment

Weekly, an impressive 5.1 rating, which is almost unheard of. It is the highest rated

comedy telecast on any network in nearly four years since the premiere episode of the Big Bang

Theory from 2014, 18.2 million viewers among adults 18 to 49, which means that

it was even more for older episodes, obviously. So this was bigger than this is us during any

of its regularly scheduled episodes. In the adult demo, it trumps Sunday's 60 Minutes episode

with Stormy Daniels. It's amazing, right? It actually was higher among total viewers than its

1997 finale 21 years ago, and the audience grew slightly from the first quarter to its second,

which is a pretty good sign. This was Tuesday's highest rated entertainment telecast in six

years among young adults and ABC's best results in the time slot since 2006. Okay, that is a massive, massive hit for ABC if those ratings hold up for Roseanne.

Now, what's fascinating about this is a lot of people on the writer very excited about this.

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