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Sandra Bernhard says her friendship breakup with Madonna still 'really makes me sad'

Sandra Bernhard isn't one for getting nostalgic, but she admits that the dissolution of her friendship with Madonna still 'really makes me sad.'

The comedian, actress, and singer brought her her trademark wit and unpredictability to the latest episode of Jesse Tyler Ferguson's podcast Dinner's On Me, rollicking between topics as disparate as brunch, earwax vacuuming, and her time working with Jerry Lewis on The King of Comedy. She'd risen to fame as a supporting player on the The Richard Pryor Show and received accolades for her turn in the Martin Scorsese film The King of Comedy. But in conversations about the friendship over the years, Bernhard has made it clear that Madonna's unprecedented ascent to fame left little room for anyone she met during her humble origins.

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