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Roseanne Barr leaves her Trump-tweeting behind — somewhat — in a stand-up stop in Vegas

LAS VEGAS - "I'm not about making people happy, as you might be able to tell," Roseanne Barr told the crowd in her familiarly dry drawl near the end of her Saturday set at the Orleans Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

It was a touch of comic understatement that nodded toward a career built on various forms of rebellion and provocation, which of late has grown to encompass the embrace of some divisive political views on Twitter, where the comic has, among other things, shared the occasional far-right conspiracy theory.

And yet the admission comes at a time

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