Sandra Bernhard to Bring #blessed to Joe's Pub, 12/26-31

The inimitable Sandra Bernhard returns to Joe's Pub at The Public with her new show Sandra Bernhard is #blessed for her annual year-end residency, which starts December 26 and leads up to her New Year's Eve spectacle. Performances run nightly from Friday-Tuesday, December 26-30 at 7:30PM and 9:30PM and Wednesday, December 31 at 9:00PM and 11:00PM. Garland Jeffreys kicks off New Year's Eve at Joe's Pub with his own show at 7:00PM on December 31.

Tickets are available for both shows (Sandra Bernhard: $60-200 / Garland Jeffreys: $50) online, via phone (212-967-7555) or in person at The Public's Box Office (425 Lafayette, NYC).

Sandra Bernhard is #blessed contains Bernhard's unique, sharp blend of hysterical insight and outspoken views, with rock-n-roll, cabaret, stand-up and a little burlesque. The show also features Bernhard's band The Flawless Zircons, who perform with her at sold out venues in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and all points in between.

Of Bernhard's work, The New York Times has said, "Just below the surface, you sense the same roving critical eye that misses nothing and the same sensibility compelled to puncture fantasies And, Ms. Bernhard's ear is as perfectly attuned as ever to music that you're embarrassed to admit you might like."

Garland Jeffreys explores the links between rock, race and rebellion in his music, and will play from his new album The King of In Between. The New Yorker has called him, "one of New York's rock and roll treasures." Please note this is a separate show, not part of Sandra Bernhard's run.

All shows on New Year's Eve will also feature signature specials by Chefs Andrew Carmellini and Zachary Faulisi and craft cocktails created by head bartender Tiffany Short.

Sandra Bernhard began her career at L.A.'s famed Comedy Store in the '70s, but has since conquered all areas of entertainment, having written and starred in numerous one-woman shows, acted in various films and on television, recorded albums and authored books.

Her first one-woman show, the groundbreaking Without You I'm Nothing, ran for six months Off-Broadway in 1988 and inspired the film and Grammy-nominated album of the same name. The critically acclaimed I'm Still Here... Dammit! opened Off-Broadway in 1997, moved to Broadway a year later, and was filmed for a very successful HBO special. In 2006, Everything Bad and Beautiful also opened to raves. "Give the dame her due, it's invigorating to be in the presence of a true original," said the New York Times. Her 2011 show, I Love Being Me, Don't You? played to sold-out crowds for an extended run in Los Angeles. The album version of the show was released on Rooftop Records later that year, and she has been touring non-stop since then.

Bernhard is now guest starring on episodes of Fox TV's Brooklyn Nine-Nine as the character Gina's "eccentric" and "offbeat" mother, Darlene Linetti. Her first episode airs on November 9, followed by another on December 7, with more episodes likely.

Additionally, Bernhard recently joined the cast of Peabody Award-winning ABC Family drama Switched at Birth, now in its third season. From 1991-96, Bernhard played Nancy Bartlett-the first openly gay character on a network sitcom-on Roseanne, while she appeared on many other shows including Good Christian Belles, Hot in Cleveland, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Crossing Jordan, Law & Order: SVU, Will & Grace, The Sopranos, The L Word, Ally McBeal, The Larry Sanders Show, and The Richard Pryor Show. She has appeared 30+ times on Late Night with David Letterman and has been a regular guest of Howard Stern's since the early '80s.

Film credits include Martin Scorsese's iconic The King of Comedy, for which she was awarded Best Supporting Actress by the National Society of Film Critics. The film celebrated its 30th Anniversary last year with Martin Scorsese's digitally restored version, which premiered as the closing night film at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. She also appeared in Nicholas Roeg's Track 29, Hudson Hawk, Dinner Rush, and Dare. Bernhard's 1990 film Without You I'm Nothing was honored last year, chosen for a rare screening at the BAMcinématek's Migrating Forms festival of film and video.

Music credits include I'm Your Woman (Polygram, 1986), Excuses for Bad Behavior (Epic, 1994) and the world music album Whatever It Takes (Mi5). She has also sung with or opened for recording artists including The Pretenders, Cyndi Lauper, and Scissor Sisters.

Bernhard has written several books including Confessions of a Pretty Lady (Harper & Row, 1988), Love, Love and Love (HarperCollins, 1994) and May I Kiss You on the Lips, Miss Sandra? (William Morrow, 1998). She has been published in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Conde Nast Traveler, Rolling Stone, Interview and Spy.

Garland Jeffreys been called an edgy urban poet, the sound of New York, a confessional singer-songwriter, and an explorer of the links between rock, race and rebellion whose work should be taught in schools. With songs covered by artists as diverse as punk pioneers The Circle Jerks ("Wild in the Streets") and the neo-folk band Vetiver ("Lon Chaney"), Jeffreys is truly unclassifiable. Long known for his amazing roster of supporting musicians, with names such as Dr. John, Sonny Rollins, James Taylor, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Phoebe Snow, Sly and Robbie and The Rumour, and more than forty years into his storied career, Jeffreys has no intention of slowing down.

More than a dozen years had passed without an American album from Jeffreys when he came roaring back into the spotlight with 2011's The King of In Between. Hailed by NPR as "as good a classic roots rock record as you're going to hear from anybody," the record-which featured an appearance by old pal Lou Reed-earned raves from The New Yorker to USA Today and led to a performance on Letterman, as well as appearances onstage with everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Levon Helm. The experience fueled a creative revitalization for the rocker, whose ebullient, late-stage creative energy colors every note of his latest record, Truth Serum (2013).

"'Truth Serum' is a kind of Rorschach, the boiled down essence of where I am today at seventy," says Jeffreys. Sung with the most relaxed, assured delivery of his career, the lyrics express a seasoned, hard-won acceptance balanced with an unflagging sense of optimism, while the music merges blues, rock, reggae, and folk into an infectious concoction distinctly his own.

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