The comedian, musician, Broadway star, TV star, film star, author, monologuist, and 1992 Playboy bunny Sandra Bernhard is coming to Seattle—well, Mercer Island—on Saturday, November 2.
When she performed her show I’m Still Here… Damn It! at the downtown Moore Theatre in 1999, she had just given birth to a daughter. We haven’t seen Bernhard in these parts much since then (except on Pose, or on Roseanne reruns, or anytime someone rewatches Madonna’s Truth or Dare), but as Bernhard told me on the phone, her history with Seattle goes back to the 1960s. And her daughter? She’s now in college.
In a wide-ranging interview conducted the same day that Republican congressional douchebags stormed the underground intelligence chamber in the US Capitol with their cell phones out (“They’re utter morons,” she said, “It’s just embarrassing!”), we talked about Donald Trump (a “national disaster”), Mark Zuckerberg (“he’s a nightmare”), Nancy Pelosi (“masterful”), and which three powerful women throughout history Bernhard would invite to a dinner party. As for her show, it’s called Quick Sand, it will be her usual iconoclastic mix of comedy and music, and tickets are still available.
