Margaret Cho on Joan Rivers, Fire Island, Provincetown, '90s Diet Pills

Hot Takes & Deep Dives

Jess Rothschild

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Jess is joined by queer comedy icon MARGARET CHO! We chat about Margaret’s incredibly prolific career, including her stand-up specials and iconic TV appearances (30 Rock, Sex and the City). Margaret goes deep about her experience starring in a sitcom based on her life where the network (ABC) fed her diet pills and zero-fat cookies in an effort to compete against the casts of Friends and My So-Called Life. We also discuss growing up in the San Francisco gay bookstore owned by her parents, becoming Ellen’s opening act in the ‘90s, why she is still afraid of Ellen, Joan Rivers' advice, loving gay summer on Fire Island / Provincetown and more!

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Hot Takes & Deep Dives and today I am joined by the one and only Margaret
0:21.0	Cho.
0:22.0	Margaret Cho is a stand-up comedian and actress.
0:24.8	She is no less than eight stand-up comedy specials.
0:28.3	She was raised by Korean immigrant parents in San Francisco where she was essentially
0:32.4	born into the gay community.
0:35.3	She starred in an ABC sitcom called All American Girl which was literally based on her life
0:41.4	or getting into that entire story.
0:44.1	She appeared in the iconic season 4 Sex in the City episode where Carrie falls down the
0:49.4	fashion runway.
0:50.4	It's called The Real Me and she was Emmy nominated for her work on 30 Rock.
0:55.8	She is on tour right now and will also be seen in the upcoming Fire Island movie on
1:01.2	Hulu as well as Season 2 of Hacks, both of which I cannot wait for.
1:06.0	We're getting into all of this and more Hi Margaret Cho.
1:09.3	Hey.
1:10.3	How are you today?
1:11.3	Where are you?
1:12.3	I'm at my home in Los Angeles.
1:15.1	Alright, enough funny business with that well-deserved very lengthy intro.
1:19.7	I want to begin with your seminal one-woman show I'm the one that I want.
1:26.0	This one-woman show was so incredibly influential for me when I was first coming out my freshman
1:31.8	year of college.
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