Nicole Learns All About Catios (w/ Margaret Cho)

Best Friends with Nicole Byer and Sasheer Zamata

Headgum

Comedy

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Nicole and Sasheer have a very special friend joining them today - comedian extraordinaire Margaret Cho! The trio gets into their preferences on all things haunted, pet psychics, receiving signs in the universe from friends that have passed on, and Nicole's ongoing quest to join Cirque du Soleil.

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:15.6	Hello.
0:18.0	Nicole, we have a guest today.
0:19.4	What?
0:21.4	Sometimes we do that.
0:23.2	We have the wonderful Margaret Cho, who's a comedian, actor, musician, advocate, entrepreneur, five-time Grammy and Emmy nominee.
0:31.3	And you can see her in season two of Disney's Percy Jackson and the Olympians and in the upcoming film, I Want Your Sex,
0:39.7	ooh, Margaret is currently embarking on a new stand-up comedy tour called, is it Chologarky?
0:45.4	Choligarchy.
0:46.3	Choligarchy, love that.
0:47.9	Margaret is currently embarking on a new stand-up comedy tour called Choligarchy.
0:52.1	Tickets are on sale right now. And she's partnered with
0:54.8	Goat Song Records to release six of her very best stand-up comedy specials along with a brand
0:59.8	new album called Best in Cho. It's Margaret Cho! Hi, thank you. Thank you. Hi, hi, hi, hi. Thank you for
1:06.4	doing this. Thank you. I mean, honored to be here. Thank you. Yeah, I'm a big fan. I'm a big fan of yours and yours.
1:14.4	I'm a big fan of yours. I think I told you. I love you so much. I love you both. This is great.
1:19.5	This is really great. Let's just jump in. Margaret, do you have a best friend? I do. I do. I have two very best friends.
1:29.5	Yes.
1:30.2	How long have you been friends?
1:32.2	How long does this span?
1:33.6	One of them I've been best friends with since I think about maybe 1989.
1:41.1	Wow.
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