Margaret Cho on Chappelle, Tarantino and Alt-Comedy

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🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Nearly three decades after starring in the first major sitcom to center on an Asian-American family, Margaret Cho is more “hopeful” than ever about the opportunities for Asian-American comedians. In this episode, Cho talks about how she would approach that sitcom differently today and tells stories about dating director Quentin Tarantino and acting opposite Nicolas Cage and John Travolta. She also weighs in on Dave Chappelle’s jokes about the bisexual community and reflects on the backlash she received after portraying an exaggerated North Korean character alongside Tina Fey and Amy Poehler at the Golden Globes.

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This episode was originally published on November 19th, 2019.

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0:00.0	This is The Last Laugh.
0:06.6	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast.
0:09.0	And as Netflix is a joke fest comes to an end this weekend in LA,
0:13.6	we are sharing one more throwback episode with the one and only, Margaret Cho.
0:19.9	Margaret and I had an incredible conversation about her trailblazing comedy career
0:24.6	in the studio back in the fall of 2019,
0:27.6	which was only enhanced by the mostly quiet presence of her adorable Chihuahua, Lucia.
0:33.6	We talked about everything from being directed by her one-time boyfriend Quentin Tarantino
0:38.3	to acting opposite John Travolta and Nicholas Cage in face-off and a lot more.
0:43.3	And somehow, even three years ago, we were talking about Dave Chappelle's anti-LGBQ jokes,
0:49.3	so you're going to want to stick around for that as well.
0:52.3	Margaret is headlining tonight, May 6th at the Will Turn Theatre and will be part of
0:57.2	Standout, an LGBTQ plus celebration tomorrow night, May 7th at the Greek Theater, which is hosted
1:04.7	by Billy Eichner and also features previous last laugh guests, Tignitaro, Sam Jay, River
1:10.6	Butcher, Fortune Feemster, Joel Kimbooster,
1:13.6	and more. That should be a really fun show, so if there are still tickets available when you're
1:18.7	hearing this, check it out. But for now, here's my conversation with Margaret Cho.
1:24.7	Does Lucia have a lot of podcast experience? Yes, she, um, usually she will be sitting in,
1:32.0	pretty much on everyone, on the one that I do, and also on anyone, anybody, a guest of anybody else's.
1:38.5	So she's been around media for a long time. Yeah. Well, I'm, I'm so happy to have you here because I'm such a big fan of
1:45.2	yours and I've been listening to your podcast. How long have you been doing it now? Well, I started it
1:50.9	in July. However, I have been, I was at the very dawn of podcasting in 2012, really long time ago.
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