King's guest for this edition is Roseanne Barr, who discusses the following topics: her persona as a champion of "pink-collar" working women; growing up Jewish in Salt Lake City, Utah; her parents and childhood home; the devastating car wreck she survived at age sixteen and the ten years it took for her to recover from it; her stay in a mental hospital; her wish, as a budding stand-up, to turn the tables on male chauvinist comics; her anger over the male chauvinism of her father and uncles; getting her big break at an amateur night at a California comedy club; how she softened her material for the mainstream; her feeling of relaxation and power onstage; Jackie Gleason's influence on her work; why she fired the writing staff of her situation comedy series, "Roseanne," and chose to have comics pen the program instead; her discomfort in Los Angeles, which she calls a town run by men who dislike women; her recent purchase of a large farm in Iowa; her wish to direct films; her desire to do three more years of her series, move to Iowa, have kids, and live as a rich farmer. Includes footage of "The Roseanne Barr Show" (HBO, 1987) and "Roseanne Barr Live from Trump Plaza" (HBO, 1990).