Sandra Bernhard - "I can use the 'N' Word Because I'm A Black Ally"

Luckily nobody under the age of 50 knows who she is, because if they did she'd be getting cancelled on Twitter right now.

R1 Sandra and the "N" word are trending on twitter right now, hence this thread

I think you can quote that word if you’re not being racist yourself, like in a sterile academic way, but that’s about it for crackers to say it.

Nigger, please.

R4 = Michael Richards

"huge Black following"

R2 Oh. Didn't know that, I don't really use Twitter. I'm quite frankly suprised, though, I didn't know the younger crowd was aware of who she is.

[quote]I didn't know the younger crowd was aware of who she is.

The ugly lesbian AIDS doctor from Pose.

The only interesting part of all of this is going to be watching that Pussy StarFucker Andy run away from her like his tail’s on fire. Sandy better call KATHY G for advice.

I just looked at the trending topics on twitter. There is no Sandra Bernhard r2.

Faggot, please. R5.

The best part is you know some white conservative did this.

Mariah got the comedy special pulled from TV. I’m surprised she didn’t get Andy to drop Sandy.

Did you make up the quote in your thread title?

R8 The kids that watch Pose don't actually watch it, they look at their phones until the trannies in ball gowns come on screen.

Lol. Countdown to her CANCELLATION, and then subsequent apology.

In 3, 2, 1 .......

She and that other old bitch Madonna. They just can't help themselves.

Crackers are gonna Crack.

R11 Beat me to it.

I saw her at gay pride in Utah quite a few years ago. Was she ever funny? Most of her act I was completely bored.

R10 use the hashtag #sandrabernhard on twitter

Is Sandra Bernhard still alive and doing stuff?

Sigh...

I know how to fuckin use twitter and search for a topic r19. Saying something is trending on twitter has an actual meaning that is tracked, this nowhere even close to trending. I don't know why you bothered telliing such an obvious lie.

Is sandra Jewish? Because if so...

R21 - I'm TEN DAYS LATE as it was trending on August 7

The video from the special resurfaced on Twitter on Aug. 7, when a social media user posted it along with the caption, “Just a reminder that Nurse Judy from Pose called Mariah Carey a “n****er” and made fun of other black artist.”

The post generated thousands of likes and comments, with many people angrily reacting to the clip. “Very hurtful, confusing, And disappointing,” Moore tweeted as another person wrote, “She pretty much said Mariah was cooning to her own ppl? I am just bewildered.”

Who the fuck are the 20% of people who said yes???

For some reason I misread this at first as being about Sandra Bullock. "Black people who come to my shows" made me look at it again. Thinking that Sandra Bullock said all that was...pretty strange.

I did exactly the same thing R25! I also thought how strange it was that she had said any of that...

Dyke, puh-leeeeze!

Why didn't Sandra ever FIX THAT FACE?

I mean jesus christ, she could afford it!

Too hard basket R28.

She's got a face like a dropped pie.

It doesn't matter. No one cares about sandra bernhard

I haven't' heard or thought about her in over a decade

No, it's not OK for the most repulsive woman in the world to use that word.

I have never understood the desire to say any word someone might find offensive, part of the reason I almost never curse and I grew up in a household where the N word was common usage, usually preceded by the words God Damn. It is a rather stupid way to be edgy.

Who?

She's not thing. Maybe she used to be a thing but she's not a thing now.

1998?

May as well have been Sarah Bernhardt who said it.

R33 - she was a barely a thing then either.

R32 Thanks for further confirming that white people are trash amongst themselves behind closed doors.

Political attitudes have changed so much that it seems pretty ridiculous to go after Bernhard for things she said 22 years ago,.

F&F for the race-baiting troll OP.

R37 a person on twitter started it

R37 Then that means people can stop crying about Kevin Hart, who made a JOKE about his own son. Not the gay community as a whole but his own child in which he has no problem with what his father was Joking about.

Sandra Bernhard was an intelligent purveyor of pop culture and fashion. She was mentored by Pryor and Paul Mooney. She knew the cutting edge of the NY scene. There was a reason Madonna and her were friends.

Kathy Griffin stole her act and dumbed it down for Middle America. A vulgar, crass, cheap imitation.

So since I'm BFF's with Stacy Abrams, can I use it too?

Kevin Hart was making fun of hyper masculine black men and their fears of ending up with a gay son. It's a hilarious joke, well-crafted, and delivered perfectly. I laughed my ass off.

I never "cancel" anyone when it comes to stand up. Stand up should be edgy, without rules, without limits.

Why do these assholes feel the need to even use the word, it's unacceptable...no justification

Once while I was sub teaching in South Central LA, the usual sophomore Romeo and Juliet crap, I went to great lengths to explain how FILTHY S'pr was. What figs meant, what a spear meant and the difference between a maiden's head and her maidenhead. It was a lecture of cocks, balls and pussy in the language of Tudor England. It was a school in the territory of the Grape Street Crips so I know that they got rival warring families. I had one tall, muscular football player who stumbled in a bit late who started asking questions about the material earlier. He started giving me bullshit until another student said, "Shut up fool, Mr. X is cool." I had students in the class echo, in their own vernacular, what we had already covered. Funny, but in ghetto talk R&J is even filthier. Bottom line is they all got it.

When the bell rang and I took my place at the door giving them a send off to their next class, the large late kid, Lord he was like a WALL, gave me a slap-grab and said with a big smile, "Mister X, you mah nigga." I gave him back a big smile and said,""Nigga, you trippin." He let out a big laugh, picked me off the floor and gave me a bear hug. Every kid left with a smile on their face.

I have always wanted to enter a room full of white people and say," Hey mah niggas, whassup?"

Oh, well, my 2 cents.

Team Sandra all the way.

When was the last time anyone in 2020 thought about Sandra Bernhard?

R46 — While watching "Pose" in 2019 and 2020, I thought of Sandra every time she hit the screen...

I cancel comedians who aren't funny and sometimes they're also disgusting. Andrew Dice Clay was one of those.

Who was that guy in the movie with Jessica the country singer who doesn't know if Chicken of the Sea is tuna or chicken? Apparently I don't know either of their names and it's too hot to google. Anyway - that guy - not funny and canceled many years ago.

Cosby - amazingly funny - one of my childhood gods of comedy - absolutely cancelled. I just couldn't handle all those victims over all those years. It overcame my "You must also be unfunny to be cancelled" rule for comedians.

I don't care what Sandra Bernhard said or didn't say or meant or didn't mean or blahblahblahblah.

Eyes on the prize, folks.

Where’s the poll option of “I couldn’t care less”?

[quote]While watching "Pose" in 2019 and 2020, I thought of Sandra every time she hit the screen...

Oh, you're one of the five people who watch that show.

Have media whores Indya Moore and Angelica Ross piped in yet?

Oh, wait. It's not a trans issue, so they wouldn't give a fuck.

Hmmm let me pretend like I’m really concerned and offended while also not understanding why people are upset about something from 1998! Does that cover it all?

I still remember as a kid hearing her say on Letterman don't touch those Calvin Klein underwear ads because you will get AIDS. That made me feel awful about myself. An to think gay men are her main audience.

It's always the dykes that are the worst people. Everyone loves to make gay men out to be the devil, but if you ever want to meet someone truly and deeply awful and evil, look no further than your local lesbian.

As long as rap music and rap “culture” opts to use the N-word with wild abandon to this very day, it is highly hypocritical for anyone of any race to go after something a comedian said TWENTY TWO YEARS ago, especially since what she said was true and making an instructive observation about race used for pop culture convenience (in this case, by Mariah.

No one speaks of pavilions anymore, and that saddens me.

I adore her and always have.

I hope — if Sandra comments on this revived matter; because she has never flinched over the years while the use of the word "nig'rish" while describing the actions of Mariah (whom Vibe magazine describes as "mulatto" ) ... I hope Sandra weaves it into a well-laced punchline that also elevates the discussion in a post-racial society.

This is RW troll bait from Twitter: I imagine OP with a whiny Tucker Carlson face. They have no intelligent arguments to support their racist policies so they target liberal hypocrisy in an attempt to justify their own actions.

Meanwhile the President RT- +Let democratic cities rot}. and The only good democrat is a dead democrat.

I love Sandra. I bought her book in hardcover, I saw WOUINothing live. I flew to NY saw the matinee and flew back to Atlanta. She pointed her flashlight at me and commented on my tan-good, and my shirt- bad! I also saw her on an ill fated RSVP cruise to hell. But, that's another story.

I saw her,pre-pandemic, coming out of whole foods in Chelsea. She was in sweat pants and looked terrific.

[quote] Is sandra Jewish? Because if so...

What?

R53 oh come on! Are you serious??? That’s funny as hell! I guess we should just cancel ALL comedians that way NO ONE is offended.

Comedy is going to die out soon, and no I'm not exaggerating. I seriously just think that it might stop being as much of a thing because of cancel culture. People won't pursue a career where you have to be funny because laughter offends. At best comedy won't die, we'll just be left with nothing but black female comedians that talk about their pussies and that'll be it.

Mmmmm hmmm

I love Sandra, but I was shocked when she used the N word in her Broadway show in 1998. She was making fun of Mariah Carey and her Butterfly album and how she was backtracking on the public and getting all n*****ish with Puff Daddy and Co.

Here's the clip...around the 2:40 mark

She owns 'resting bitch face.'

One good thing she did was King of Comedy.

The word I wish she would stop saying is "honey."

ENOUGH.

Its pathetic that people are so desperate to cancel ANYONE that now they are having to go back decades to find a comedy bit from a niche artist saying something that today no one would say.

Get a life OP and any other cancel culture Caroles.

Good so now that's out of the bag, every woman ally can call us faggots and they won't stop no matter what we do....

"Even Bernhard’s Pose co-star Indya Moore weighed in, tweeting: 'Very hurtful, confusing, And disappointing.' "

Of course she did.

Bitch please

I haven't thought of Sandra Bernhard in ages, I didn't even know she was still in show business.

She should get on social media more.

I guess [italic]Sesame Street[/italic] won’t be bringing her back any time soon.

I'm one of the 21% R24. Not a racist bone in my body (GenX/white/geh) and I've never used n****r - not once. But I have used Negro more than a few times and when in I've used it in "mixed company" (Jesus, that's almost as offensive as n****r), it has been a way to telegraph being a black ally. So I get her argument. And her comedy.

Both n-words are bad, absolutely no excuse to use them. A "black ally" should know that.

Then I can say cracker because I'm a white ally since my boyfriend is white.

Can an American explain why black culture is awash with the use of 'the word', yet it is meant to be the worst word ever?

Beats me!

R79 Not sure what relevance that has...

What were they expecting? Jackie Mason insulting some meshugganah schwartzes?

Nigger.

i love that DL is suddenly so woke. remember your hypocrisies the next time you post to bottom shame or vagina shame. I wager to guys 80% or more that do that a.) are racist themselves b.) have never had pussy since a pussy had them and b.) are major bossy bottoms.

Because gay men are not simps like most heterosexual men.

White "allies" using this word sounds problematic to me. So how does this work again?

Funny how the "acceptable" words for Black people keep changing over time, but the N-word remains the holy grail of racial and ethnic slurs.

Sandra is aggressively ugly and hates blonde gentiles.

I will never understand white people's obsession with this word. It's extremely easy not to say it. If it's in a book, then you can just say N word or replace it with another clean word. They only listen to rap music so they can say it and claim that's they're only quoting the song and then act like they don't understand why it's offensive. There is no "pass" on it. Some idiots may tell you that you can use it but it doesn't mean every black person will be ok with it.

R88 So, why does rap and hip hop use nigger endlessly?

Ask the CIA, R89. They invented it. While you're at it, ask them why they sold crack to Eric Monte.

Oh, dear.

it was possibly OK in 98 but not since. Rules and culture change.

Rappers have made more money on that word than they can count.

She's still blacker than Candace Owens.

Cancel culture is about making a damning case and willingly ignoring the circumstances.

Nowadays it's considered, at best, in poor taste to say the N-word (usually it's considered racist). Back then it was considered cutting edge when a certified comedian said it. Comedians got some leeway back then. Hell, even a decade ago Lisa Campanelli could perform racist stand-up bits and a moment later go on how much she likes big black cock.

The N word is horrible. You should never call a black person neighbor.

"Oh my God, there must have been dust on those mints."

I remember when she was a guest on The View and started talking about Mariah Carey, saying she had gone all ghetto. Something like "she was getting all niggerish up in Diddy's suite". I thought Hasselbeck was going to explode.

Sandra is a high functioning autistic?

that Sandra appearance on THE VIEW has been SCRUBBED!!!!! (Sandra also goes off on Laura Bush. INCENDIARY!!!)

Dissing Mariah Carey is a staple for Sandra's shows over the years.

I wonder what Richard Pryor would have to say about this.

Sandra reading Laura, Barbara, and Jenna:

She can use the word ugly all she wants too. She owns that word.