Despite being best known for her role in Roseanne and her turbulent friendship with Madonna, it's the biting, cynical sarcasm of her stage shows that Sandra Bernhard's fans love. Emma Brockes meets her
Tuesday August 21, 2007
The Guardian
Sandra Bernhard is eating a salad and wearing a floral print shirt, and both of these things seem surprising. We are in a restaurant in her Manhattan neighbourhood, where, based on reputation alone, one imagines she ranges around starting fights, eating raw meat and flashing her knickers. "I don't think just being aggressive is particularly interesting," she says, to clarify the specific brand of showing off that has made her name. "I like to think that I'm somebody who is deeply connected and concerned about humanity, and it tends to make you vocal and passionate and full of energy and a point of view." She smiles warily. At 52, she still looks like a gawky teen.