00:00TCM fans may remember that one of Sandra Bernhard's earliest films was the 1982 drama
00:05The King of Comedy, directed by our good friend Martin Scorsese. In that movie,
00:10she goes toe-to-toe with Robert De Niro and also kidnaps Jerry Lewis, trying to seduce him while
00:16he's bound by duct tape. Bernhardt improvised much of her dialogue in that film, and she received
00:21the award for Best Supporting Actress from the National Society of Film Critics. She followed
00:26that with multiple visits to The Late Show with David Letterman throughout the 1980s,
00:30with an in-your-face comedy that made her a favorite of the host. There was also a famous
00:34friendship-slash-romance with Madonna, all of which kept Bernhardt in the public eye, leading to her
00:40Broadway show in 1988. Bernhardt has been busy ever since on stage, TV, films, even doing a podcast,
00:47and always an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ rights. More recently, she starred as Nurse Judy in the
00:53FX show Pose about the ball culture in New York City, American Horror Story, and just this year,
01:00she was seen in the hit Apple TV Plus show Severance. Speaking of the ball culture of New York,
01:05next in our Pride Salute is a bold documentary all about that world from first-time filmmaker Jenny Livingston.
01:13Next on TCM, Paris is burning, then Fox and his friends, and later Coquette. TCM's a terrible flirt tonight.
