If you're a songwriter, you want to write a song like "Oh Yeah" that radically shifts everything. You can definitely retire on that song. You want to have something you can put in your songbook that everybody can recognize, whether it's a good or bad thing.
Margaret ChoThere's a lot of guy comics who I think are funny, but I generally am more excited about a special or a show where there are females.
Margaret ChoOne of my first jobs was on a lesbian cruise. I was the ship comedian for the Lesbian Love Boat.
Margaret ChoSexual fulfillment goals, to make them happen, you have to work on them as a project. I don't think it's a bad thing.
Margaret ChoI could never make a joke about somebody unless I could say it to their face and they'd laugh.
Margaret ChoI use my work as catharsis. That's often the best thing that we can do, is to allow ourselves to rage because it's so rare that we get to. We're told to forgive - I don't want to! I don't want to forgive my abuser! I don't care to and I don't like that assumption that forgiveness makes me a better person. It's not authentic to me, my feelings and what I need. But everyone has their own way.
Margaret Cho