Margaret Cho: “We Need Comedy to Survive”
metroweekly.comLive & Livid Tour, stays connected to younger perspectives, even if she’s just watching other people play. “I’m like, ‘How do you even figure this out?'” she says. “But that’s why these young people are so smart, they know what they’re doing.”Clearly, Margaret Cho knows what she’s doing, too.
She’s been a household name in comedy and television since starring in her groundbreaking ’90s sitcom All-American Girl.She’s headlined solo standup tours and TV specials, appeared in more than 40 films from Face/Off to Fire Island, recorded Grammy-nominated albums of comedy and music, guested on countless shows, performed on countless stages, all while proudly challenging the world’s notions of sexuality and gender, and advocating for the civil rights of marginalized people, particularly women, Asian Americans, and the LGBTQ community.As her friend and Fire Island co-star Joel Kim Booster told Metro Weekly in June, “[Margaret Cho] changed my life.
And that’s not an exaggeration. I can draw a straight line from All-American Girl…to Fire Island. I was very young when that show came out and it really blew my world wide open in terms of what I thought was possible for myself.”Cho doesn’t take for granted the love she receives from younger comics and co-stars like Booster, Bowen Yang, and Matt Rogers.“I’m so appreciative of the new generation of queer comedians who are really just doing amazing work,” she says. “That to me is really important, and that’s a really exciting thing that they look to me as inspiring them.
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