Bernhard returned to Broadway in 1998 with the show "I'm Still Here... Damn It!", recorded for a live comedy album. At that time of the show, Bernhard was pregnant. She gave birth to daughter Cicely Yasin Bernhard on July 4, 1998. Bernhard returned to New York in 2006 with the Off-Broadway show "Everything Bad & Beautiful". The CD "Everything Bad & Beautiful" was critically lauded as one of her best, released by indie label Breaking Records. That year she also hosted the first season of the reality competition show "The Search for the Funniest Mom in America" on Nick at Nite. In 2007 saw the debut of her one-woman show "Plan B from Outer Space", and the inclusion of her Hanukkah-themed song "Miracle of Lights", which she co-wrote with Mitchell Kaplan, in the Breaking Records compilation album "Breaking For the Holidays". She toured "Plan B" through 2008, and performed "Miracle of Lights" on some morning shows in New York.