Margaret Cho: Wet and Woke

About this episode

Margaret Cho joins TS Madison to discuss her career, activism, and the challenges faced by the queer Asian American community in Hollywood.

Five-time Grammy and Emmy nominated comedian, actress, and activist — and one of Vogue's Best Female Comedians of All Time, right alongside Joan Rivers and Gilda Radner — Margaret Cho joins TS Madison in the "Outlaws" studio for an unforgettable episode. She's fresh off being cast in "Percy Jackson" Season 2 alongside Sandra Bernhard and Kristen Schaal, starring in Greg Araki's new film "I Want Your Sex" with Olivia Wilde and Charli XCX, and touring her brand new stand-up show "CHOLIGARCHY" — where she's fighting fascism one joke at a time. Madison opens by honoring Margaret as a personal inspiration — and reveals the two already have history: a moment backstage at GLAAD where Margaret didn't need an introduction because she'd been following Madison for years. This episode gets into everything past, present, and future: Margaret unpacks happened when network executives greenlit a show based on her life and then decided she was too fat to play herself — and how Hollywood's playbook still hasn't changed.  Fast forward to today, she talks death threats, Homeland Security, and what it's like to be a loud, queer, Asian American woman with a…

People in this episode

Host: TS Madison

Guest: Margaret Cho

Topics covered

• comedy
• activism
• Hollywood
• queer representation
• trans community
• personal history
• social issues

Keywords

• Margaret Cho
• TS Madison
• comedy
• activism
• Hollywood
• queer
• trans community
• social issues
• CHOLIGARCHY
• I Want Your Sex

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GLAAD, Homeland Security, Diddy

Books & works: Percy Jackson, I Want Your Sex, CHOLIGARCHY

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