Getting live, vivid and livid with Margaret Cho
Margaret Cho (Photo by Sergio Garcia) JENNY BLOCK | C0ntributing Writer jennyeblock@icloud.com You can see her in a variety of television shows and films, both as a guest and a star — including Fire Island, Nora From Queens, Hacks, The L Word: Generation Q, and Law & Order:SVU.
She was even on The Masked Singer. VOGUE named her one of nine best female comedians of all-time. Rolling Stone named her one of the “50 Best Stand-Up Comics of All Time, and CNN named her as one of the ”50 People Who Changed American Comedy.” I am speaking, of course, about the queer icon Margaret Cho, the five-time Grammy- and Emmy-nominated comedian and actress who is now bringing her Live and LIVID!tour to Texas, where she’ll take on “addiction, abuse, activism and Asianess” with her characteristic balance of wit, charm, and bite. “It’s all about the politics of disgust and what is disgusting about politics,” she says.
You can see Cho April 11 at The Paramount/Moontower Festival in Austin and at the Texas Theatre right here in Dallas on April 12.
The Dallas Voice had a chance to catch up with her recently to find out more about her life, the show, and the world on fire. Dallas Voice: Did you always want to be on stage? Margaret Cho: I started to really plan and plot when I was about eight.
