Story / Joann Zhang
Photos / Carianne Older
Styling / Phil Gomez
MUA / Francie Tomalonis
Hair / Sean Fears with @opusbeauty
Location / 1 Hotel West Hollywood
Special thanks to Ginger Pierce & Aaron Jimenez
Dipping into humanistic musings, often swerving into a joke, Margaret Cho’s surefooted conversation discloses a more intimate version of the fiery, raucous, yet thoughtful comedian who is one of America’s first Asian comedians. A pioneer not only for her ethnic singularity but for the racy, cheeky jokes she makes about politics and sexuality, she has named herself a fag hag and a tramp; she jokes about any and every topic banned from family dinners (9/11, heroin, politics, etc.). “The door opens with Margaret. There’s a before Margaret and after Margaret, and I think that’s true with a lot of us,” said Indian-American comedian Hari Kondabolu, in a New York Times article. “I didn’t think it was possible for me to do stand-up comedy until I saw this. This is the reason I do stand-up comedy because Margaret Cho exists. That’s what opened up the world to me.”
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