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Hi, everyone.

It's Sophia.

Welcome to Work in Progress.

Welcome back to work in progress, friends.

We have a guest that I am just delighted to host today.

She is someone I have looked up to for such a long time, a woman who has never fit in a single box.

We are joined today by none other than the iconic Rosie O'Donnell from her incredible career

in stand-up, daytime television, film, Broadway, activism.

No, I didn't geek out on her about a league of their own, but you know I wanted to.

She has built a career defined by being undefinable.

She has been a courageous leader on the forefront of social

goodness. And in recent years, her bravery and her candor, the things that she's lived with

for decades in the public eye, have only sharpened. She's expanded her life beyond familiar

borders, and I mean that geographically, politically,

and creatively.

And this summer, she is launching here in the U.S. in New York City, a new live one-woman

show called Common Knowledge that is tapping into everything that she believes is true and more.

It's commentary without filter. It's comedy, storytelling, it's, it's richness about human

life. And it's something that is uniquely Rosie O'Donnell. Today, I get to ask her all about her upbringing the history and events that shaped her

and why she thinks comedy cuts through all the noise.

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