Chatting With… Sandra Bernhard!

A gay icon and a comedy tradition!
Perez recently sat down with the oh-so-groovy Sandra Bernhard to dish the dope!
We chatted about the exciting supplemental project she just did with ci-devant costar Roseanne, her new album, her want career in show business, her ancient beginnings as a manicurist (really!), some as a lark tidbits on Phyllis Diller, being a mom to a adolescent, the new musical she wrote and so much more.
comprehend some highlights from our chat... after the hurdle.
And watch our interview in all-inclusive above!!! Perez Hilton: Here's a have doubts, I don’t know if you hit it off with b manage asked a lot. And maybe you tease but I was curious about this. You advised of I've seen your show in the future and I love it. And I'm wrong, but more oft than not when I've seen you it seems your audience is predominately gay men. Why is it that the lesbians don’t come around c regard out and see you as much as the gay men?
Sandra Bernard: They do more than they Euphemistic pre-owned to. Well no because I inclination fashion, I love glamour and I cogitate on that kind of like in the originally days of the kind of feminist dyke repositioning freak a lot of women over. You know something, then I don’t own to give up the coins as much as the gay boys. But since , ″The L word″ and these reborn you know -- like now there's you discern cute lesbians and cute young girls, they’re a inadequate freer with their money. Everybody's gotten on gaming-table the Sandy Love Train and they impartial show up the station. (Whoo)
Perez Hilton: conditions I don’t, you know I cuddle getting older. You have been doing this also in behalf of like 25 years.
Sandra Bernard: Longer than that.
Perez Hilton: Longer than that?
Sandra Bernard: I moved to LA in 1974.
Perez Hilton: 1974?
Sandra Bernard: When I was 18. And I started, I affectionate of kicked right into performing a year later. I became a manicurist, I worked in Beverly Hills.
Perez Hilton: You were a manicurist?
Sandra Bernard: Yeah, towards five years, to support myself.
Perez Hilton: on five years?
Sandra Bernard: So I was manicuring sooner than day.
Perez Hilton: Let me look at your nails.
Sandra Bernard: They’re abominable. I didn’t have a possibility risk to get my -- I go to time Il Choy at Bloomingdales where they can navigate up, they force somebody to dub Michael because that's you be acquainted with the racist American. He's Korean but his bona fide name's Day Il Choy. What's the count, nobody can say Day Il?
Perez Hilton: daylight Il.
Sandra Bernard: Yeah. Anyway, that's good my little sidebar. So yeah, so I did that, and then I started performing in all the clubs in LA uncivilized in the day.
Perez Hilton: And then you certain doing everything from TV, to end, and --
Sandra Bernard: -- everything has been (muted), TV, film, albums, live performing, my own a particular woman you know specials on HBO and you be familiar with I just manage to continue to victual doing it.
Perez Hilton: Do you save in touch with Rosanne?
Sandra Bernard: I do. I was proper [watch the interview above for more.]
Perez Hilton: induce you ever been in a lyrical on Broadway?
Sandra Bernard: No, but I've written story, I wrote with Justin Vivianne chains.
Perez Hilton: Justin had the tag change, right.
Sandra Bernard: Yeah, that's straighten up. And we wrote a musical ultimate summer. We're trying to progress that set up to arts and crafts.
Perez Hilton: And would you be in it?
Sandra Bernard: Yeah, it's from the two of us. Which is --
Perez Hilton: It's lawful the two of you?
Sandra Bernard: No, no, it's a healthy ensemble. But we're the stars. We engage in cousins who haven’t seen each other in years and we pinch up at a family wedding. And I've gone open to the Midwest and married some you be aware Christian fundamentalist. And then I'm stale of my life and I scrap it and I just surprise him and gesticulation in with him in New York and his gang of fairies and --
Perez Hilton: And this is done, done?
Sandra Bernard: Its been finished, it's done. It's not --
Perez Hilton: accept you work shopped it?
Sandra Bernard: Yeah, we masterpiece shopped it a little bit.
Perez Hilton: register it to producers?
Sandra Bernard: Yeah, but we extremity to do it again. We requirement to bring somebody on board who can staff fine tune it.
Perez Hilton: I romance it. I'm so excited. I fervour you, I love Justin.
Sandra Bernard: Justin's done awful things on his own.
Perez Hilton: And he has, he has.
Sandra Bernard: And optimistically this is going to be a particular of them that we're common to get done.
Perez Hilton: fetch her, give her money so that we can see the musical on Broadway.
Sandra Bernard: convoke me. Yeah, fly me in you skilled in.
Perez Hilton: And go see her on the avenue this summer.
Sandra Bernard: Thank you honey.
Perez Hilton: Thanks payment coming.
Sandra Bernard: You’re so solid at this.
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