Sandra Bernhard (born June 6, 1955) is an American
comedianA comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain members of an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...
, singer, actress and author. She first gained attention in the late 1970s with her
stand-up comedyStand-up comedy is a style of comedy where a comedian performs for a live audience, usually speaking directly to them. It is usually performed by a single comedian with the aid of a microphone, either hand-held or mounted on a stand...
in which she often bitterly critiques celebrity culture and political figures. She is also known for her relationship with
MadonnaMadonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance...
during the late 1980s. Bernhard is number 97 on
Comedy CentralComedy Central is an American cable television and satellite television channel that carries predominantly comedy programming, both original and syndicated....
's list of the 100 greatest standups of all time.
Bernhard has often addressed her childhood in interviews and within the context of her stand-up comedy.
Sandra Bernhard (born June 6, 1955) is an American
comedianA comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain members of an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...
, singer, actress and author. She first gained attention in the late 1970s with her
stand-up comedyStand-up comedy is a style of comedy where a comedian performs for a live audience, usually speaking directly to them. It is usually performed by a single comedian with the aid of a microphone, either hand-held or mounted on a stand...
in which she often bitterly critiques celebrity culture and political figures. She is also known for her relationship with
MadonnaMadonna is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance...
during the late 1980s. Bernhard is number 97 on
Comedy CentralComedy Central is an American cable television and satellite television channel that carries predominantly comedy programming, both original and syndicated....
's list of the 100 greatest standups of all time.
Biography
Bernhard has often addressed her childhood in interviews and within the context of her stand-up comedy. She was born in
Flint, MichiganFlint is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and is located along the Flint River, 66 miles northwest of Detroit. As of the 2000 census, the city had a population of 124,943, making it the fifth largest city in Michigan. It is the county seat of Genesee County which lies in the Flint/Tri-Cities...
, the daughter of Jeanette and Jerome Bernhard. She has three older brothers. Her family moved to
Scottsdale, ArizonaScottsdale is a city in the eastern part of Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, adjacent to Phoenix. As of 2007 the population of the city was 240,410. Scottsdale is regarded as an upscale tourist and shopping destination and as a representation of western American style...
when she was 10.
Of her Jewish family, Bernhard stated in her show
Without You I'm Nothing: "My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world". In the documentary program
Girls Who Do: Comedy, she discusses being a funny teenager. After graduating from
Saguaro High SchoolSaguaro High School is a former A+ and Blue Ribbon Schools Program certified high schools of the Scottsdale Unified School District in Scottsdale, Arizona. Saguaro was opened in 1966...
in Scottsdale, Arizona, she went to live on a
kibbutzA kibbutz is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises. Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism...
in
IsraelIsrael officially the State of Israel , is a developed state in Western Asia located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its...
. She moved to Los Angeles at the age of 19. During that time she made ends meet working as a manicurist in a high-end salon.
On July 4, 1998 she had her daughter Cicely Yasin Bernhard via
caesarean sectionA Caesarean section , also known as C-section or Caesar, is a surgical procedure in which incisions are made through a mother's abdomen and uterus to deliver one or more babies...
.
Early career
Bernhard became a popular staple at
The Comedy StoreThe Comedy Store is a comedy club located in West Hollywood, California, at 8433 Sunset Boulevard on the Sunset Strip.The Comedy Store was opened in April 1972 by comedians Sammy Shore and Rudy DeLuca...
. As her popularity as a comedian grew she was cast as a supporting player on
The Richard Pryor ShowThe Richard Pryor Show was a short-lived and controversial comedy variety series starring Richard Pryor. It premiered on NBC on Tuesday, September 13, 1977 at 8:00 p.m. opposite ABC's popular television shows Laverne & Shirley and Happy Days. The show was produced by Rocco Urbisci for Burt Sugarman...
in 1977. Guest appearances on evening talk shows followed. Her big break came in 1983 when she was cast by
Martin ScorseseMartin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film historian. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation, a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Oscars, Golden Globe,...
to star as stalker and kidnapper Masha in the film
The King of ComedyThe King of Comedy is an American comedy film made in 1981 starring Robert De Niro and Jerry Lewis, and directed by Martin Scorsese. It was released in Iceland on December 19, 1982 and subsequently, on February 18, 1983 in the United States by 20th Century Fox.-Synopsis:Rupert Pupkin , a stage-door...
for which she won the
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting ActressThe National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress is one of the annual awards given by the National Society of Film Critics.This awards was given for the first time in 1967 to Marjorie Rhodes for her role in The Family Way....
.
She began performing her first one-woman show called
I'm Your WomanI'm Your Woman is the name of the first record released by comedian and singer Sandra Bernhard. It was released near the beginning of her career and is a live performance recording that was issued only on vinyl in 1985; it was later re-released on compact disc and made available for sale on...
in 1985, and an unsuccessful album version was released. Bernhard appeared in a variety of small film and television roles throughout the 1980s while crafting her stand-up routine into a more performance art oriented show. She launched an off-Broadway one woman show called
Without You I'm Nothing in 1988 which played at The Orpheum Theatre. In 1990 it was turned into a film, also called
Without You I'm NothingWithout You I'm Nothing is a 1990 film starring and written by comedian and singer Sandra Bernhard, based on material from her award-winning one-woman show of the same name. The film was shot on location in 1989 at The Coconut Grove in The Ambassador Hotel...
; and into a double album, of the same name. The film was mostly filmed on location in 1989 in The Cocoanut Grove located in
The Ambassador HotelThe Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California was a landmark hotel and location of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub until demolished in 2005. The hotel was the site of the June, 1968 assassination of presidential candidate, United States Senator and former U.S. Attorney General Robert F...
.
Career after 1990
In 1991 Bernhard began playing the role of Nancy Bartlett on the hit sitcom
RoseanneRoseanne is an American sitcom broadcast on ABC from 1988 to 1997 starring Roseanne Barr.The series reached #1 in the Nielsen Ratings becoming the most watched television show in the United States from 1989 to 1990, and remained in the top four for six of its nine seasons, and in the top twenty for...
. She appeared in 33 episodes between 1991 and 1997, and was one of the first actresses to portray an openly lesbian recurring character on American television. The role is one of her best known, something she has lamented in her stand-up as being both a blessing and a curse.
In September 1992, Bernhard did a nude pictorial for
PlayboyPlayboy is an American men's magazine, founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with a presence in nearly every medium. Playboy is one of the world's best...
. She hosted the USA Network's
REEL WILD CINEMA for two seasons beginning in 1995. Bernhard continued acting in mostly independent films and TV guest roles; forays into mainstream films such as
Hudson HawkHudson Hawk is a 1991 film, directed by Michael Lehmann. Bruce Willis stars in the title role and also co-wrote the story. Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell, James Coburn, David Caruso, Lorraine Toussaint, Frank Stallone, Richard E...
and
Dallas Doll were all bombs. Her stand-up and one-woman shows continued to be popular, however, and in 1991 she released her first studio album, entitled
Excuses For Bad Behavior (Part One). It was not a commercial success.
In 1995, she briefly appeared as a guest in the animated talk show
Space Ghost Coast to CoastSpace Ghost Coast to Coast is an animated spoof talk show. The show centers on numerous characters from the 60s Hanna-Barbera cartoon series Space Ghost, in which they return to host a humorous talk show purportedly shot and broadcast from Space Ghost's studio on the Ghost Planet in outer space...
, in an episode titled "Jerk". In 1996, she guest-starred on an episode of
Highlander: The SeriesHighlander: The Series is an English language fantasy/sci-fi television series featuring Duncan MacLeod , of the Scottish Clan MacLeod, as the Highlander of the title. An offshoot of the Highlander movies, Highlander: The Series centered on the life of Duncan, who is a clansman to the main...
called "Dramatic License" in which she played a romance novelist writing about the life of the main character.
Bernhard returned to Broadway in 1998 with the show
I'm Still Here... Damn It!I'm Still Here... Damn It is an album released by singer/comedian/actress Sandra Bernhard. The album is a live recording of her one-woman show by the same name; it combines comedic monologues and musical performances...
, which was recorded for a live comedy album. At that time of the show Bernhard was pregnant. She gave birth to daughter Cicely Yasin Bernhard on July 4, 1998. For the next several years she would self-record all of her live shows and release cheaply made CD-R versions which were sold in the lobby of her shows. She continued touring and making smaller films and TV guest appearances.
She returned to New York in 2006 with the
Off-BroadwayOff Broadway theater is an umbrella term for a defined set of plays, musicals or revues performed in New York City. Originally referring to the location of a venue and its productions on a street intersecting Broadway in Manhattan's Theatre District, the hub of the theater industry in the United...
show
Everything Bad & Beautiful. The CD
Everything Bad & Beautiful was critically lauded as one of her best, released by indie label Breaking Records. The year 2007 saw the creation of Bernhard's show
Plan B from Outer Space. She toured with the show through 2008.
Bernhard was a featured guest singer with children's artist Dan Zane's on the
Family Dance album's "Thrift Shop".
Public controversies
In August 2006, Sandra Bernhard served as the spokesperson in a commercial for Make-up Art Cosmetics (MAC). In the commercial, promoting PlushGlass lipgloss, Bernhard referred to someone who might not approve of her outspokenness as a "...little freaked out, intimidated, frightened, right-wing Republican thin-lipped bitch". MAC edited the line from the commercial to avoid unintentionally offending some of its customer base.
On September 19, 2008, in an "epithet-laden" performance at Theater J of the
Washington DC Jewish Community Center, Bernhard warned
Vice Presidential candidateThe Vice President of the United States is the holder of a public office created by the United States Constitution. The Vice President, together with the President of the United States, is indirectly elected by the people through the Electoral College to a four-year term...
Sarah PalinSarah Louise Palin is an American politician who served as Governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009 and was the Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States in 2008....
that she would be gang-raped by Bernhard's "big black brothers" if she visited Manhattan. Palin had a campaign stop planned in New York City at the time. Bernhard later stated "I certainly wish Gov. Palin no harm. I'd just like her to explain to me how she can hold such outrageous views... and then go back to Alaska". Bernhard also warned Palin to stay away from the
Old TestamentIn Christianity, the Old Testament is the collection of books that form the first of the two-part Christian Biblical canon. These works correspond to the Hebrew Bible , with some variations and additions. In the Eastern Orthodox Church the comparable texts are known as the Septuagint, from the...
and referred to Palin's Christianity as "new goyish crappy shiksa funky bullshit!". Bernhard's comments resulted in a decision by Rosie's Place, a Boston women's shelter, to cut her act from its annual fundraiser. Bernhard claimed on her web page that her comments were taken out of context. Later she began to deny that she had made the comment at all.
Albums
Bernhard performs classic
pop musicPop music is a music genre that developed from the mid-1950s as a softer alternative to rock 'n' roll and later to rock music. It has a focus on commercial recording, often orientated towards a youth market, usually through the medium of relatively short and simple love songs...
,
jazzJazz is a musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
, and
bluesBlues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre created within the African-American communities in the Deep South of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
tunes. She has released several albums (combinations of music and comedy) including:
- I'm Your Woman
I'm Your Woman is the name of the first record released by comedian and singer Sandra Bernhard. It was released near the beginning of her career and is a live performance recording that was issued only on vinyl in 1985; it was later re-released on compact disc and made available for sale on...
- Without You I'm Nothing
- Excuses for Bad Behavior (Part One)
Excuses for Bad Behavior is a two-part album series by Sandra Bernhard. The first album was released in 1991 while the second was released in 2004.-Part One:...
- I'm Still Here... Damn It!
I'm Still Here... Damn It is an album released by singer/comedian/actress Sandra Bernhard. The album is a live recording of her one-woman show by the same name; it combines comedic monologues and musical performances...
- The Love Machine
The Love Machine is an album released by singer/comedian/actress Sandra Bernhard. The album is a live recording of her one-woman show by the same name; it combines comedic monologues and musical performances...
- Hero Worship
Hero Worship is an album released by singer/comedian/actress Sandra Bernhard. The album is a live recording of her one-woman show by the same name; it combines comedic monologues and musical performances...
- Excuses for Bad Behavior (Part Two)
Excuses for Bad Behavior is a two-part album series by Sandra Bernhard. The first album was released in 1991 while the second was released in 2004.-Part One:...
- The Love Machine Remastered (entirely different than The Love Machine)
- Giving Til It Hurts
- Gems of Mystery
Gems of Mystery is the name of an album performed/recorded by singer/comedian/actress Sandra Bernhard. It is a compilation of new tracks, previously released material and interludes. Seven of the eighteen tracks are between 20 seconds and a minute and a half long.The album is available exclusively...
- Everything Bad & Beautiful
Everything Bad & Beautiful is the name of a live stage show and album performed/recorded by singer/comedienne/actress Sandra Bernhard. The show ran in 2006 in New York City at the Daryl Roth Theater. In the performance Bernhard does what she is best known for: she rips apart celebrity culture while...
- Whatever It Takes
Singles
- "Everybody's Young"
- "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
"You Make Me Feel " is the title of a 1978 single by American disco singer Sylvester James, who performed using just his first name, Sylvester...
" (#13 U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club PlayBillboard's Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...
)
- "Manic Superstar"
- "Phone Sex (Do You Want Me Tonight?)"
- "On the Runway" (#39 U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play)
- "Perfection
Perfection is an EP by Sandra Bernhard, released in 2008. The original full version of the song appears on her 2007 live album "Everything Bad & Beautiful".-Track listing:# "Perfection " – 2:58...
"
- "Miracle of Lights"
- "All Around"
Compilations
- AT&T Presents Stormy Weather; song "Is That All There Is?
"Is That All There Is?" is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and recorded by Peggy Lee in November 1969. The song was originally recorded by Dan Daniels in March 1968, then Leslie Uggams in August 1968, Guy Lombardo in 1969, and Tony Bennett on December 22, 1969.It was a popular...
"
- Divas of Dance - Volume 3 (Remixes); song "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)"
- Breaking For the Holidays; song "Miracle of Lights"
All of the CDs from
The Love Machine through
Gems... have been cheaply produced CD-Rs, which is commonly what comedians sell at their shows. In 2004 Bernhard re-released special edition albums of
I'm Your Woman and
Without You I'm Nothing. The re-releases of both included special tracks, as well as several guests to help attract a new audience. Bernhard has stated that
Excuses for Bad Behavior (Part One) will be re-released in late 2007.
The
Smoking PopesThe Smoking Popes are an American rock group from the northwest suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, formed in 1991. They play punk-influenced pop music with crooning vocals...
recorded a song entitled "Sandra", a tribute to Bernhard, wherein lead singer
Josh CatererJosh Caterer is a Chicago-area musician and songwriter. With his brothers, Eli Caterer and Matt Caterer , he was a founding member in 1991 of The Smoking Popes, in which Josh plays lead guitar and sings. After his conversion to Christianity the Smoking Popes split up, and Caterer later founded...
professes his obsession with Sandra.
Literature
- Confessions of a Pretty Lady
Confessions of a Pretty Lady is a book of poetry and prose by comedian, actress, singer and writer Sandra Bernhard. It was published by Harpercollins in 1988 with a reprint in 1989. Both editions were in hardcover....
- Re-released in 1989
- May I Kiss You on the Lips, Miss Sandra
- Love, Love and Love
Filmography
Features:
- Shogun Assassin
Shogun Assassin, known in Japan as , is a very violent jidaigeki film made for the British and American markets and released in 1980. The film is considered a classic by many fans of the samurai-film genre...
(1980The year 1980 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*May 21 - The Empire Strikes Back is released and is the biggest grosser of the year just as its precessdor, Star Wars did three years before....
) (voice in English dub)
- Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams
Nice Dreams is Cheech & Chong's third feature-length film, released in 1981 by Columbia Pictures. It stars Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Paul Reubens, Stacy Keach, Evelyn Guerrero and Timothy Leary...
(1981-Events:*January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie Heaven's Gate, a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica to sell it....
)
- The King of Comedy
The King of Comedy is an American comedy film made in 1981 starring Robert De Niro and Jerry Lewis, and directed by Martin Scorsese. It was released in Iceland on December 19, 1982 and subsequently, on February 18, 1983 in the United States by 20th Century Fox.-Synopsis:Rupert Pupkin , a stage-door...
(1983-Events:*February 11 - The Rolling Stones concert film Let's Spend the Night Together opens in New York-Top grossing films :source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1983&p=.htm- Awards :Academy Awards:...
)
- The House of God
The House of God is a satirical novel by Samuel Shem , published in 1978. It portrays the psychological harm done to medical interns during the course of medical internship in the early 1970's.-Storyline:...
(1984-Events:* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.*Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....
)
- Sesame Street Presents: Follow that Bird (1985
-Events:* 3 December - Roger Moore steps down from the role of James Bond after twelve years and seven films. He is replaced by Timothy Dalton.* The Academy Award for Best Picture was won by Out of Africa, while the highest grossing film was Back to the Future.-Top grossing films :source:...
)
- The Whoopee Boys (1986
-Events:*April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle*Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver.*Actress Heather Locklear marries Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee....
)
- Casual Sex?
Casual Sex? is a 1988 comedy film about two female friends who go to a holiday resort in search of the perfect man. The film was directed by Geneviève Robert, and stars Lea Thompson, Victoria Jackson, Andrew Dice Clay, and Jerry Levine.- Plot :...
(1988-Top grossing films :source: http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=1988&p=.htm- Awards :Academy Awards:* Alice * Alien Nation, starring James Caan and Mandy Patinkin* Amsterdamned...
)
- Track 29
Track 29 is a 1988 film directed by Nicolas Roeg. It was produced by George Harrison's HandMade Films with Rick McCallum. The film was nominated for and won a few awards at regional film festivals. The writer, Dennis Potter, adapted his own 1974 television play, Schmoedipus, changing the setting...
(1988)
- Heavy Petting (1989
-Events:* "Batman" is released on June 23, and went on to become the biggest blockbuster of the year; Grossing over $250 million at the box office.* Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia, for $20 million...
) (documentary)
- Without You I'm Nothing
Without You I'm Nothing is a 1990 film starring and written by comedian and singer Sandra Bernhard, based on material from her award-winning one-woman show of the same name. The film was shot on location in 1989 at The Coconut Grove in The Ambassador Hotel...
(1990The year 1990 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* CGI technique is expanded with motion capture for CGI characters, used in Total Recall .* The first digitally-manipulated matte painting is used, in Die Hard 2....
)
- Madonna: Truth or Dare
Truth or Dare is a documentary chronicling the life of American singer-songwriter Madonna during her 1990 Blond Ambition World Tour...
(1991The year 1991 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*April 28 - Bonnie Raitt marries actor Michael O'Keefe in New York*Terminator 2: Judgment Day, became one of the landmarks for sci-fi action films.-Top grossing films :...
) (documentary)
- Hudson Hawk
Hudson Hawk is a 1991 film, directed by Michael Lehmann. Bruce Willis stars in the title role and also co-wrote the story. Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell, James Coburn, David Caruso, Lorraine Toussaint, Frank Stallone, Richard E...
(1991)
- Inside Monkey Zetterland
Inside Monkey Zetterland is a 1992 film penned by former child actor Steve Antin.-Plot:Struggling former child actor and now-adult screenwriter Monkey Zetterland is working on a historical screenplay based around the defunct Red Car subway of Los Angeles...
(1992The year 1992 in film involved many significant films. -Top grossing films :source: - Awards :Academy Awards:*Article 99B...
)
- Sandra Bernhard: Confessions of a Pretty Lady
Confessions of a Pretty Lady is a book of poetry and prose by comedian, actress, singer and writer Sandra Bernhard. It was published by Harpercollins in 1988 with a reprint in 1989. Both editions were in hardcover....
(1994The year 1994 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films :*This was the Highest Grossing film of 1994 Worldwidesource: - Awards :Academy Awards:* Andre...
) (documentary)
- Dallas Doll (1994)
- Unzipped
Unzipped is a 1995 documentary film, directed by Douglas Keeve. It follows fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi, Keeve's then boyfriend, as he plans and ultimately shows his fall 1994 collection...
(1995The year 1995 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* March 22 - The Dogme 95 movement is officially announced in Paris by Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg....
) (documentary)
- A Hundred and One Nights of Simon Cinema (1995) (Cameo)
- The Reggae Movie (1995) (documentary)
- Catwalk (1996
The year 1996 in film involved some significant events. Major releases this year included Fargo, Trainspotting, The English Patient, Independence Day, Twister, Scream, Jerry Maguire and Madonna's Evita.-Events:...
) (documentary)
- Lover Girl (1997)
- An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn was made in 1997 and released in 1998. It was regarded as one of the worst films of all time, and scooped five awards at the 1998 Golden Raspberry Awards...
(1998The year 1998 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 14 - Sharon Stone marries Phil Bronstein.* Former child star Gary Coleman is charged with assaulting a young female bus driver at a California shopping mall.-Top grossing films:...
)
- Plump Fiction
Plump Fiction is a 1998 parody film, released by Rhino Entertainment. It's a spoof of 1990s movies in general, and violent, convoluted movies more specifically; the overall story is a takeoff of Pulp Fiction, complete with intertitles and an out-of-sequence storyline, with bits of Reservoir Dogs...
(1998)
- One Hell of a Guy (1998) (voice only)
- Exposé (1998)
- Wrongfully Accused
Wrongfully Accused is a 1998 comedy film starring Leslie Nielsen as a man who has been framed for murder by a one-armed, one-legged, one-eyed man. The film was written, produced, and directed by Pat Proft and is a parody of the 1993 film The Fugitive....
(1998)
- Somewhere in the City (1998)
- Hercules: Zero to Hero
Hercules: Zero to Hero is a 1998 direct-to-video prequel to Disney's 1997 animated feature Hercules. It was released on August 31, 1998, and serves as the pilot to Hercules: The Animated Series...
(1999The year 1999 in film involved some significant events and was arguably the most successful year for films released in the 1990s. Several new feature films, including Star Wars Episode I, The Sixth Sense, The Green Mile, new sequel Toy Story 2, first of The Matrix, Disney's animated Tarzan,...
) (voice only) (direct-to-video)
- I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
I Woke Up Early the Day I Died is a 1999 film based on a script by Edward D. Wood, Jr..-Plot:A cross dresser escapes from an asylum, finds money, then attends a funeral with eccentric mourners where he loses the money. He then decides to track down and kill off all of the mourners.-Cast:...
(1999)
- Playing Mona Lisa
Playing Mona Lisa is a comedy film released in 2000 starring Alicia Witt, Harvey Fierstein and Brooke Langton.-Cast:-Musical score:Composed by Carlos Rodriguez the film's score includes a variety of music...
(2000The year 2000 in film involved some significant events.-Top-grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 2000...
)
- Dinner Rush
Dinner Rush is an independent feature film, written by Brian S. Kalata and Rick Shaughnessy. Directed by Bob Giraldi. It stars Danny Aiello as a restauranteur-bookmaker in New York City's Tribeca neighborhood and Edoardo Ballerini as the star chef, one of his sons. It concerns converging...
(2000)
- Zoolander
Zoolander is a 2001 comedy film directed by Ben Stiller. The films concept is based on the Bret Easton Ellis book Glamorama, with elements from a pair of short films directed by Russell Bates and written by Drake Sather and Stiller for the VH1 Fashion Awards television specials in 1996 and 1997....
(2001The year 2001 in film involved some significant events. -Top-grossing films:...
) (Cameo)
- The N-Word
The N-Word is a 2004 documentary directed and written by Todd Larkins Williams. The movie, as the title may suggest, looks into the history and usage of the word nigger and its variations.Interviews With:*Sandra Bernhard*Todd Boyd*Elaine Brown...
(2004The year 2004 in film involved some significant events. Major releases of sequels took place. It included blockbuster films like Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Passion of the Christ, Meet the Fockers, Blade: Trinity, Spider-Man 2, Alien vs. Predator, Kill Bill Vol...
) (documentary)
- The Easter Egg Adventure (2005
The year 2005 in film saw many new films released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels, prequels, and remakes as well as original films.-Top–grossing films:...
) (voice only) (direct-to-video)
- Searching for Bobby D (2005)
- Dare (2009
The year 2009 has many new films to be released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels, prequels, and remakes as well as original films.-Top-grossing films:...
)
- See You in September (2009)
- Looking for Lenny (2009) (documentary)
Short Subjects:
- Museum of Love (1996
The year 1996 in film involved some significant events. Major releases this year included Fargo, Trainspotting, The English Patient, Independence Day, Twister, Scream, Jerry Maguire and Madonna's Evita.-Events:...
)
- The Third Date (2003
The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Pokémon Heroes, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,...
)
- Twenty Dollar Drinks (2006
The year 2006 in film saw many new films released worldwide, including several major mainstream sequels, prequels, and remakes as well as original films.-Top grossing films:...
)
Television Work
- The Richard Pryor Special? (1977
The year 1977 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1977.For the American TV schedule, see: 1977-78 American network television schedule.-Events:...
)
- The Richard Pryor Show
The Richard Pryor Show was a short-lived and controversial comedy variety series starring Richard Pryor. It premiered on NBC on Tuesday, September 13, 1977 at 8:00 p.m. opposite ABC's popular television shows Laverne & Shirley and Happy Days. The show was produced by Rocco Urbisci for Burt Sugarman...
(1977) (canceled after 4 episodes)
- Roseanne
Roseanne is an American sitcom broadcast on ABC from 1988 to 1997 starring Roseanne Barr.The series reached #1 in the Nielsen Ratings becoming the most watched television show in the United States from 1989 to 1990, and remained in the top four for six of its nine seasons, and in the top twenty for...
(recurring cast member from 1991The year 1991 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1991.For the American TV schedule, see: 1991-92 United States network television schedule.-Events:...
- 1997The year 1997 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1997.- Events :*January 1 - The U.S...
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- Sandra After Dark, with Your Hostess, Sandra Bernhard (1992
The year 1992 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1992.-Events:*January 10 - The Days of our Lives nighttime special One Stormy Night airs on NBC....
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- The A-List (1992 - 1993
The year 1993 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1993.For the American TV schedule, see: 1993-94 United States network television schedule.-Events:...
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- Reel Wild Cinema (1994
The year 1994 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1994.For the American TV schedule, see: 1994-95 United States network television schedule.-Events:...
- 1996The year 1996 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1996.For the American TV schedule, see: 1996-97 United States network television schedule.-Events:...
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- Freaky Friday
Freaky Friday is a 1995 television film based on the book Freaky Friday.-Plot:A mother, Ellen, and daughter Annabelle find it difficult to get along with each other, each professing that the other has no idea what her life is like...
(1995The year 1995 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1995.For the American TV schedule, see: 1995-96 United States network television schedule.-Events:...
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- The Late Shift
The Late Shift is a 1996 American TV movie produced by HBO based on the book by Bill Carter.The movie follows the behind-the-scenes network politics responsible for late-night programming leading up to — and after — the retirement of Johnny Carson from The Tonight Show on NBC in 1992...
(1996The year 1996 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1996.For the American TV schedule, see: 1996-97 United States network television schedule.-Events:...
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- The Apocalypse (1997)
- Will & Grace (1998)
- Hercules (1998
The year 1998 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1998.For the American TV schedule, see: 1998-99 United States network television schedule.-Events:...
- 1999The year 1999 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1999.For the American TV schedule, see: 1999-00 United States network television schedule.-Events:...
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- Sandra Bernhard: I'm Still Here... Damn It! (1999)
- Sandra Bernhard: Giving Them Lip (2001
The year 2001 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 2001.-Events:*January 1 - Digital television officially begins in Australia...
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- The Sandra Bernhard Experience (2001 - 2003
The year 2003 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 2003.For the American TV schedule, see: 2003-04 United States network television schedule.-Events:...
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- Silver Lake (2004
The year 2004 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 2004.For the American TV schedule, see: 2004-05 United States network television schedule.-Events:...
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- The L Word
The L Word is an American and Canadian co-production television drama series originally shown on Showtime portraying the lives of a group of lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and their friends, family and lovers in the trendy Los Angeles-area city of West Hollywood, California...
Season 2 (As Charlotte Birch, 2005The year 2005 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 2005.For the American TV schedule, see: 2005-06 United States network television schedule.-Events:* January 1 -**The U.S...
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- The Queer Edge
Jack E. Jett is primarily known for being the first openly gay American talk show host.- Early life and career :Jack E. Jett grew up in Dallas, Texas and moved to Los Angeles at the age of 21. There he went through various jobs in entertainment like AFTRA where he worked as the Talent Agency...
(co-host from 2005The year 2005 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 2005.For the American TV schedule, see: 2005-06 United States network television schedule.-Events:* January 1 -**The U.S...
- 2007The year 2007 in television involves some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 2007.-January–March:-April–June:-July–September:-October–December:-Debuts:-Television shows:-1950s:...
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- Las Vegas (2007)
- "The New Adventures of Old Christine
The New Adventures of Old Christine is a comedy series starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a recently divorced single mother. The series debuted as a midseason replacement on March 13, 2006 on CBS and has broadcast four complete seasons....
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