If you’re in the LA area you can catch Margaret Cho this week at the Netflix Is a Joke Festival and on tour across the country this summer.No one honestly believes Millie Bobby Brown runs over gay men with new cars. I think that mental health for everyone has been so stressful, but when you can figure out a way to nurture yourself I think that’s really positive and really important. It’s really actually very nice, so I was able to go into the world of the home. I have 30 bird feeders outside my house, so it’s like I built a whole sustainable ecosystem with my animals and the birds and the plants. They’re in the area between pet and plant, and it’s very alive and really interesting, so these plants require a lot of observation, so it’s a very different experience in terms of plant parenthood, and I really love that.
I have a fruit garden, a vegetable garden, a carnivorous plant bog, which I really love. So getting a chance to actually sit and enjoy this home that I never got to spend time in, I built a few gardens. MC: Well, it’s been interesting because its made me realize how little time I’ve spent at home over this 30+ years of being a comedian.
We all came together and we all became very close. They’re such great fun people, they’re such hilarious comedians, Bowen and Joel and Matt, everybody, and Conrad. There were some pretty incredible dynamic interpretations of Tiffany Pollard’s monologues from I Love New York or pretty much any of the VH1 reality shows of the early 2000s. It was like “Real Housewives in the Park”, like “Shakespeare in the park”, like complete reenactments of entire Real Housewives episodes, like word for word.
… there was a lot of traveling, there were two hurricanes, there was, of course, the constant pressure of living and doing this in a pandemic.īut they’re so talented, and outside of my dressing room every day there were full recreations of Real Housewives monologues. We didn’t shoot the entire film on the island, but we were there for quite a lot of it. They’re amazing, we had such a good time making the movie, and we just laughed and were very excited to be out on the island. This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. We got the chance to talk to Margaret about her enduring love of stand-up comedy, the queer comedy scene, and her upcoming role in the gay romantic comedy Fire Island. Cho is headlining a solo show at the Wiltern on May 6 and will be part of Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration alongside Eddie Izzard, Billy Eichner, Sandra Bernhard, Tig Notaro, Wanda Sykes, and many more. Margaret Cho is back on tour this summer, kicking things off with appearances at the Netflix Is a Joke comedy festival in Los Angeles.
But for so many of us, Cho is simply the funniest, most reliably brilliant and outrageous comedian of all time. Her legendary stand up career that has yielded 10-plus comedy tours, television appearances ( The Masked Singer, High Maintenance), film roles ( Fire Island, Good on Paper) podcasting (“The Margaret Cho”), and beyond. Over the years, Cho has become an actor, singer, burlesque performer, and advocate for anti-racism, anti-bullying, and queer rights. Margaret Cho is many things: a legend, a queer icon, a tireless activist for the causes she believes in.