SandraBernhard.com

Yorkshire Post

By Chris Bond
Sandra Bernhard has been courting controversy for 25 years. Chris Bond spoke to the irreverent comedian ahead of her UK tour.
SANDRA Bernhard was once described by The New York Times as a "living, breathing bonfire".

Her reputation as a firebrand comic has been forged during a career spanning four decades that has seen her work alongside such luminaries as Richard Pryor and Robert DeNiro.

And while she made a name for herself as an acerbic stand-up comedian, she is far from being just a one-trick pony.

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.

The brilliant and gorgeous Camille Paglia wrote a wonderful blog including some wonderful words about yours truly...

My partner, Alison, and I had the great pleasure of seeing Sandra Bernhard in "Everything Bad & Beautiful" at the Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia last month. What a searing, original presence Bernhard is -- and what a rebuke to the simpering micro-celebs with blank eyes who litter our entertainment mags with their banal bacchanals. Bernhard is a true role model to aspiring young performers, who need guts and gumption and cantankerous vision. She's shown how to make a mark on the world and still stay real...

You can read the entire thing on Salon.com

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