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The Chris Cuomo Project

Margaret Cho

The Chris Cuomo Project

Chris Cuomo

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.53.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode of The Chris Cuomo Project, comedian, actor, and activist Margaret Cho (“The Flight Attendant,” “Fire Island”) joins Chris to discuss her extensive comedy career, the Asian American community’s response to recent mass shootings in California, where to draw the line in comedy and the impact of Dave Chappelle’s recent comedy specials on the LGBTQ+ community, who has the potential to be the United States’ next transcendent leader, and much more. Follow and subscribe to The Chris Cuomo Project on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube for new episodes every Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I feel like the emergence of Asian Americans,

0:04.0

in particular, in comedy, is really my greatest contribution.

0:10.0

Like, if I can just lean back and let all the kids do the work,

0:14.0

like that to me, I basically given the business to my children.

0:19.0

Hey everybody, I'm Chris Cuomo and welcome to another episode of the Chris Cuomo project.

0:38.0

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0:42.0

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0:48.0

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0:50.0

We have new designs, new clothes, take a look, see what you like.

0:53.0

Now, speaking of what you like, funny is one of our best commodities in our culture.

0:58.0

And Margaret Cho has been making us laugh with observational comedy,

1:02.0

which is my favorite, I don't know about you, for a long time.

1:05.0

And the interesting thing is, she's still right in like the meat of her power band.

1:11.0

Right? I mean, it's not like she's been doing it forever and she's 78.

1:15.0

She's still in her prime and she is all about the shine.

1:20.0

And I wanted to talk to her, not just like about jokes and how to make each other laugh and all that stuff.

1:25.0

But where are we?

1:27.0

What are we doing to ourselves in our culture?

1:29.0

What are her concerns?

1:31.0

What does she make of these recent mass shootings by older Asian Americans?

1:36.0

What is it to be Asian in America?

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