Sandra Bernhard
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Flint, Michigan, USA
It might be stretching things to suggest that American comedienne Sandra Bernhard's off-kilter spin on life was caused by her family's moving from the cozy confines of Michigan to the rough-and-tumble expanses of Arizona. One gets the feeling that Bernhard would have been on the outside looking in wherever she went. Utilizing her outsized lips and jutting chin for comic effect, Bernhard became a standup comedian at age 19, and two years later got her first big break as a regular on the short-lived Richard Pryor Show (where the press release misspelled her name as Bernhart). Her act, which like all good comedy acts was better seen than described, consisted of cutting-edge commentary about sexual stereotyping and survival; one felt compelled to laugh lest Bernhard bolt from the stage and physically assault the audience. This dangerous quality carried over into her star-making film role in King of Comedy, as a psychotic fan of talk show host Jerry Lewis. While Bernhard's funkiness worked in this film's favor, it was detrimental to her villainous turn in the 1990 fiasco Hudson Hawk, though she was no worse than any other element of this notorious bomb. A tireless creator of comedy, Bernhard has scored with her 1985 best-selling record album I'm Your Woman, her 1988 solo off-Broadway show Without You I'm Nothing (made into a film in 1990), and her autobiography Confessions of a Pretty Lady. While she spent much of her early career skirting around the subject of her own sexual preferences, in recent years Bernhard has "outed" herself, which has added an extra layer of public fascination to her onetime close friendship with Madonna, as well as her recurring appearances on the TV sitcom Roseanne.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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67% | 79 Parts |
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— | 2019 |
88% | I Am Richard Pryor |
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— | 2019 |
60% | Roseanne for President! |
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$3.8k | 2016 |
No Score Yet | Jewel's Catch One |
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— | 2016 |
No Score Yet | Diving Normal |
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— | 2015 |
No Score Yet | Why We Laugh: Funny Women |
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— | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Stormy Weather: The Music of Harold Arlen |
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— | 2012 |
57% | Dare |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | See You in September |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Heavy Petting |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Samson and Delilah |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Paul Mooney: Jesus Is Black - So Was Cleopatra - Know Your History |
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— | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Searching for Bobby DeNiro |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | The Easter Egg Adventure |
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— | 2004 |
63% | Zoolander |
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$44.8M | 2001 |
91% | Dinner Rush |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | Footsteps |
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— | 2001 |
No Score Yet | One Hell of a Guy |
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— | 2000 |
64% | Playing Mona Lisa |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Comedy Central Presents: The N.Y. Friars Club Roast of Jerry Stiller |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Somewhere in the City |
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— | 1998 |
27% | I Woke Up Early the Day I Died |
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— | 1998 |
21% | Wrongfully Accused |
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— | 1998 |
8% | An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Footsteps |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | The Apocalypse |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | The Apocalypse |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | Lover Girl |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | The Late Shift |
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— | 1996 |
0% | Plump Fiction |
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— | 1996 |
29% | Catwalk |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | The Reggae Movie |
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— | 1996 |
80% | Unzipped |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Freaky Friday |
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— | 1995 |
71% | Inside Monkey Zetterland |
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— | 1993 |
32% | Hudson Hawk |
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— | 1991 |
87% | Madonna: Truth or Dare |
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— | 1991 |
63% | Without You I'm Nothing |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Heavy Petting |
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— | 1989 |
63% | Track 29 |
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— | 1988 |
31% | Casual Sex? |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | The Whoopee Boys |
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— | 1986 |
92% | Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird |
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— | 1985 |
83% | The Muppets Take Manhattan |
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— | 1984 |
89% | The King of Comedy |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | Best of the Big Laff Off |
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— | 1983 |
43% | Cheech and Chong's Nice Dreams |
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— | 1981 |
80% | Shogun Assassin |
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— | 1980 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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97% |
Pose
2018-2019
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76% |
Roseanne
1988-2018
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Seth Meyers
2014
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No Score Yet |
Match Game
2016-2020
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56% |
Sweetbitter
2018-2019
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|
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No Score Yet |
Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen
2009
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95% |
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
2013-2020
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96% |
Difficult People
2015-2017
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No Score Yet |
2 Broke Girls
2011-2017
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No Score Yet |
The Wendy Williams Show
2008-2020
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100% |
Switched at Birth
2011-2017
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100% |
The Birthday Boys
2013-2014
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72% |
Drop Dead Diva
2009-2014
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31% |
The Neighbors
2012-2014
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No Score Yet |
Family Guy
1999
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42% |
GCB
2012
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No Score Yet |
Hot in Cleveland
2010-2015
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30% |
Roseanne's Nuts
2011
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100% |
The Green Room With Paul Provenza
2010-2011
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No Score Yet |
Project Runway
2004-2020
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No Score Yet |
Las Vegas
2003-2008
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|
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89% |
The New Adventures of Old Christine
2006-2010
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57% |
The L Word
2004-2009
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No Score Yet |
Crossing Jordan
2001-2007
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No Score Yet |
Girlfriends
2000-2008
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78% |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
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No Score Yet |
Will & Grace
1998-2006
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92% |
The Sopranos
1999-2007
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No Score Yet |
V.I.P.
1998-2004
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No Score Yet |
Hercules
1998-1999
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61% |
Ally McBeal
1997-2002
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No Score Yet |
Chicago Hope
1994-2000
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No Score Yet |
Clueless
1996-1999
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No Score Yet |
Highlander
1992-1998
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100% |
The Larry Sanders Show
1992-1998
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82% |
Tales from the Crypt
1989-1996
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No Score Yet |
MADtv
1995-2009
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60% |
The Richard Pryor Show
1977
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