Rosie O'Donnell
Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin
iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 8.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2014
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Rosie’s childhood dream of performing on Broadway alongside Bette Midler never materialized. Instead, at 16 she delivered her first stand-up routine to an appreciative Long Island crowd. She tells Alec that she stole most of her jokes that night.
A decade later, the comedian broke into television as an unbeatable Star Search contestant. A multi-talented actress, author, activist and television personality, “The Queen of Nice,” has embraced motherhood, adopting five children. Whether advocating the rights of gay parents or speaking out on political issues, Rosie O’Donnell has never been afraid to speak her mind.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:11.8 | This is Alec Baldwin, and you're listening to Here's the Thing, |
| 0:15.8 | my chance to talk with artists, policymakers, and performers. |
| 0:19.6 | To hear their stories, what inspired their creations, what decisions, change their careers, |
| 0:25.0 | what relationships influence their work. |
| 0:28.1 | I never had a fallback on purpose, and my dad used to say that all the time, you need a |
| 0:31.7 | fallback, but I knew that this career was so difficult to succeed in that if you had a |
| 0:35.2 | fallback, you would fall back, so I didn't have one. |
| 0:37.8 | It's so great to be back here in Boston, where I went to college, where I started doing stand-up |
| 0:43.6 | comedy. |
| 0:44.5 | Rosie O'Donnell has been a stand-up comic, an actress, a star search contestant, a talk show host, |
| 0:50.8 | an activist, a philanthropist, a magazine editor, a Broadway and television producer, |
| 0:56.0 | and a mom. Rosie has five kids. You have to manage your time and make each one of them feel special. |
| 1:06.0 | Doing it all was a pattern Rosie established early. In high school, she was voted Homecoming Queen, Prom Queen, Senior Class President, and Class Clown. |
| 1:17.5 | Rosie O'Donnell has never shied away from a controversial subject. |
| 1:21.8 | Her combination of confidence and conviction has led to very public disagreements with celebrities |
| 1:27.3 | such as Tom Salick, |
| 1:28.8 | Donald Trump, and Elizabeth Hasselbeck from The View. |
| 1:31.8 | You just said our enemies in Iraq. |
| 1:34.1 | Did Iraq attack us? |
| 1:35.7 | No, I'm saying al-Qaeda. |
| 1:37.0 | Okay. |
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