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COMEDY REVIEW: Sandra Bernhard @ Painted Bride, 1/11
Asking the non-musical question, I Love Being Me, Don't You?, Sandra Bernhard had her fans eating out of her hand at the Painted Bride Wednesday night.
COMEDY REVIEW: Sandra Bernhard @ Painted Bride, 1/11
Asking the non-musical question, I Love Being Me, Don’t You?, Sandra Bernhard had her fans eating out of her 
hand at the Painted Bride Wednesday night. On the rainy evening, she delivered on her promise to “make it sunny and bright,” opening with a kick-ass rendition of Neil Sedaka’s “Laughter in the Rain” that dripped with irony.
Taking on topics as diverse as her Mitral valve prolapse (and crush on her cardiologist) and raising her teenage daughter to name-dropping the only two people allowed to smoke in her apartment — Liza Minnelli and Chrissie Hynde, no less — Bernhard was revealing, unafraid to expose herself and her insecurities.
But Bernhard is also prone to puncture holes in “fakers,” and she memorably lacerated Tyra Banks, Cindy Crawford and Gywneth Paltrow for their lame product lines and self-aggrandizing sense of being. The comedian's irritation toward Bristol Palin and Jessica Simpson’s Fancy Nights fragrance may be expected, but these remarks still produced laughs because of her excellent delivery and amusing facial expressions. Her keen sense of comic timing was on display throughout the night; she never held the joke too long. All of her schtick stuck.
Backed by a trio of fine musicians, Bernhard’s musical numbers were the highlight of the show. She sang a few bars of Joni Mitchell’s “Ladies of the Canyon” and encouraged the audience to sing along to the 1973 Eurovision hit “Eres Tu,” which she performed in Spanish. While Bernard closed with REO Speedwagon’s “I Can’t Fight this Feeling,” it was her knockout encore — a medley of gun songs — that truly distinguished I Love Being Me, Don’t You? For it featured Bernhard in just a porkpie hat, t-shirt and stockings, strutting her stuff with panache. And everyone loving every minute of it.
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