PR.com (Allison Kugel): Tell me about your one-woman show, Everything Bad and Beautiful? Are you still performing in New York or are you touring now?

Sandra Bernhard: I'm on the road. I'm doing different shows. But I performed [Everything Bad and Beautiful] for almost four months last summer, here in New York. It's another one in a long line of my one-woman shows dealing with topical subjects in my life and they are all inter-woven with music. It's a real pastiche of our times.

PR.com: I know that you started off as a stand-up comic, but was your vision always to be more of a performance artist, as opposed to a traditional stand-up?

Sandra Bernhard: Well I've never considered myself a performance artist. I call myself an entertainer. What I do is more of a throw back to an eclectic style of music and comedy and satire, and it's much more uplifting. It's not, like, some weird off-beat, kind of, obscure topic. It's very accessible and my work is very emotional.

PR.com: As far as the topics or people you choose to cover, how do you decide who and what you want to talk about? Is there anything where you feel like you wouldn't go there no matter what?

Sandra Bernhard: I try to stay away from things that I think don't have any real value culturally, and that I think I can't really bring anything fresh to the subject. So I stay away from things that have just been overdone. And I always try to bring a fresh spin to everything that I talk about. In terms of where things come from, it's kind of a grab bag. I draw from my life, from the world, from the street, from news… just things that pop into my mind that I find crazy and funny.

PR.com: Are all of the stories true that you put in your show? Like with meeting John Kerry at the airport, was that something that actually did happen?

(Sandra approached John Kerry when she spotted him in a V.I.P. waiting area at the airport, to express her support for his presidential campaign, back in 2004. He retorted with the words, "That's great. I'm busy.")

Sandra Bernhard: That actually did happen. But not everything is true. Some things I embellish because when you're performing, you've got to keep it a little more interesting. But a lot of the stuff is based on real incidence.

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