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Margaret Cho

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first: 2014-11-11
most recent: 2014-11-11
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“Because it's like, oh, you know, it's like, oh, yeah, she really is that first. It's like, it's like you could really see them. So it makes life much easier.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, my website is Margaret Show.com, and that's where all my tour dates are. I have some blog stuff up there. I have kind of everything photos and just kind of an overview of what I do. And then I have, I'm on Twitter at Margaret Show, and I'm on Facebook at Margaret Show. I do a bit of Instagram. It's Margaret underscore Cho. But yeah, that's all my stuff. And I'm very active everywhere there. I really enjoy that too. So, you know, it's funny how it's much easier life is when you can verify people on Twitter.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think he allows himself to just be, you know, and I think that part of it is also drummers tend to be very positive people. And I think it is the physical activity. I think it is that high intensity interval training that is drumming.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But are there... I don't know. I think that there is a high level of people who are tortured, but then there's also a lot of people who have taken measures to help themselves, whether it's through sobriety or some kind of program or even some kind of religion that makes things a little bit better. I do see happiness out there. I do see a lot of joy in regards to work. But sometimes the more brilliant somebody is, the more crazy they are too. So we don't really have a really good handle on people in real life. The most well-adjusted person, the nicest and well-adjusted and famous and successful was probably Dave Grohl. The fruit fly He is the most sunny individual I've ever met and so generous and kind and really one of the most fantastic artists of all time. Oh, he's an amazing.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, I love biographies and so I'm reading right now how to be a movie start, which is like all about Elizabeth Taylor. I think it's really fascinating. I love movie star biographies and the way that Hollywood was like to people like Liberacci and Elizabeth Taylor and these kinds of figures who were very flamboyant and symbolic at the time but led pretty tortured lives to So that to me is really interesting. So I like that kind of stuff.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Dry, not sweet, just something kind of that's very hearty but flavorful but not like juice like a red like a grape juice like very very A good intense line. So that'd be nice.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Usually it's just a nice meal. Sometimes I'll have a book. Sometimes I'll just be reading backstage, which is a really nice thing to do. Sometimes it's very busy. You know, you can never really predict that there's no, I have to perform so much that there's no way that I can regulate that hour before because it's always a different situation. You know, different city or different social situations, different social setting are coming from something else. So there's really no way to gauge, but I like to have, you know, sometimes a bit of wine, a bit of red wine.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's It's like positive and negative, and then it can be romantic, which is really funny. You know, he actually likes the most romantic thing that you can say. And it's totally weird. Like, it could be really the most horrible thing you could say to somebody. But the best thing, too. So I really love the user-friendly quality of the word.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think the one that always does is, oh fuck, oh fuck a buck, a buck, fuck. That's like the one that I think I use the most, which is probably the one that everybody uses the most, I think.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, I think I would really want to have the Farfala salmon and vodka or the Penala vodka. That's my favorite. some kind of bread thing not so many sweets I guess maybe a little but I don't really I don't know the sauce is the thing You know, again, it's like I don't really, I still don't crave it like I used to. Like I used to have to have it once a day. At least salad or... You know, some kind of thing, breakfast pasta. Oh, that's so, you know, breakfast past But I mean, it's like so weird how I just don't have, I don't even care. You know, it's really weird”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I don't weigh myself at all. I can see the changes in the way that my clothes are fitting differently. I'm wearing much more smaller sizes. I can tell in the way that I look, and I don't really need to see it, I know that when my exercise, when I'm exercising more, that it's definitely a much more visible. And also when I'm delaying off, sometimes I'll get lazy and I'll just eat like beef jerky or something. That which is not the best of all the stuff in it. When I really take the time to make my own food and stuff, that's when I can really see a huge difference. It's that when I get lazy, like, you know, there's like the salad just things and stuff like that, which probably have hidden sugar in that, you know, so I can definitely backslide there, but not that much either. You're not eating anything within breading or anything like that, you know, or like sausages or flour, then that's not too bad.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, that's better It could be, you know, it really is, then it's a real treat and a real luxury, but I've avoided my last couple of cheat days because it just really made me sick. And, you know, the food program reminds me a bit of when you go to overeaters Anonymous, there's a very specific, there's two kind of overeaters anonymous. One is called how and one is called the Cambridge group where it's just a food plan that you cannot deviate from. You just can never deviate from. But this gave people a lot of freedom from the addictive properties of eating. So in a sense, it reminds me of that in that now that the food is out of the way, the obsessing about food is out of the way, now I can actually live my life, which I think is really a wonderful thing.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it's a very helpful. I think the strangest thing that I'm really not hungry, the really weird thing, because I was like starving all the time. And I'm like, why do I mean, obviously there's reasons why, but it's like I don't have that, I just don't, I'm never really hungry ever, even when I'm having eaten for several hours, it somehow sustains my system. It just burns. And I'm not desperate for food.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, what's interesting about the diet or just the way it is in my body is that I don't have any cravings, that I just don't. I don't actually care. I do the cheap day because It tastes good, but it's not because at a craving, you know, it's out of just, I do it because it's going to help my overall process. I think that's what's the best thing about it for me is that I don't have that need for pasta or bread that I did before, although it still tastes really good when they have it. That's just the need for it. The things that you think you can't give up before you started, I mean, you started your idea about food changes.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, when you talk about your cheat date, I almost dread mine because I am physically sick every time I overestimate. I've been eating now in a four-hour body for very religiously now for about several months, four or five months. There's a big difference, but I try to go for the free day, the cheat day, and I dread it, like I'm afraid of it. It doesn't feel good to me because any kind of flower or excessive amounts of sugar or anything, they taste so good, but they don't feel good in my body. And I wonder if there's a way to manage, I have a better digestion during that time. It just doesn't feel good to me.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, absolutely. I know that I am. I'm very grateful for that. And I know that that's an achievement. There's much higher levels of success I would like to achieve. But then, you know, I know slouch, especially because I'm probably of my peers, the one who has sustained it the longest, you know, that I have been pretty active and out there very, very visibly for the last 20 years. So that's the good thing.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I guess it would be Steve Jobs. But that would be that somebody that's so successful beyond and also this visionary that Yukuka became kind of a legendary being that was like beyond humans. So I think that would be my definition of success. As somebody that sort of like crosses a line from business to art to I don't even know what that is, you know, that kind of visionary. Pretty profound”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sweden, France is incredible. Germany is probably the best, but Finland, definitely Norway is amazing. All of Scandinavia is so down with it. You know, they're so excited. Just Denmark is incredible. I think they've traditionally been very, very sex positive. Their history in corn is pretty amazing. That's a great place to go too. But I think Germany maybe will be the ultimate place because there's so much kind of liberal thought there, so much kind of ease about sexuality there that is really amazing.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Those two different things. And also, you know, it's also the language do. And also, I think it's hard for American just in general, but especially somebody that's really brash and cocky about sexuality and how it isn't a shameful thing. It's a little bit the uch, you know, for that. So those markets have always been a little bit hard for me.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't think you can tell that, and it's not a joke, it's a true story, but I don't think you can tell that joke in Italy. I don't think you can tell that joke in Spain without some kind of repercussions of people getting really angry. But what are you doing? Like, how can you just do that? I'm a 45-year-old woman. I'm really, you know, you're right, Damita. He was much younger than me. I really should have had sex with his father. It was not right, but it was really what I needed. So late.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's good. It's really good. And we're eating and then the samolier is so cute. You know, I'm talking to him. And then I thought he was so adorable. And then he was really young too. And we left. And then my friends are like, well, you know, they're trying to encourage me like you should talk to him because he really liked you. I was like, oh, he's too young. And I know one of them went back and gave the guy my phone number. And I was like, whatever. And then so anyway, I went back to my hotel and it was like, one in the morning and the guy actually called me, which is amazing. I thought it was so brave. So he came over and it was wonderful. It was so great. It was like a therapy dog.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I very, very This is a joke that I'm telling you. I don't even know if I should tell this joke, but I haven't had sex in a really long time, not a really long time, but I was upset because Rob Williams died and Joe Nivers died. And I don't want to. And I just didn't feel like it. So I was out to dinner in San Francisco not long ago, and I was with two gay guys, which is my way. I love gay men with these guys I love. We're at the house of Prime Rib, which is excellent. Oh, it's fantastic.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Every place else has been really fantastic, and Australia also, I had to cancel a New Zealand tour because it was doing like a TV show, but I definitely look forward to going back there. But international markets are really wonderful for me to work out what I want to do in the future.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, it's great because what's great about going internationally is part of the joy of performing there, the audience is just so grateful that you came, that they will give you some, they caught you some slack thing because you can actually negotiate a kind of a nice workshop with them because they know how far away it is. They know you don't have to tour there, but they know you from whatever different thing they may feel glad that you're there. So for me, it's a great, great thing. And it's not something that a lot of comedians from America do. And I get to do many countries in Europe, except the only countries I haven't done shows in are like Italy and Spain, which it just gets, the market gets very different there.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To make it really perfect because I would take it internationally and make sure that it is great and then I will actually commit it to either special or album or something like that.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, usually we'll probably involve a trip to San Francisco actually where I just started it recently. Came back to the city and I hung out with old Canadian friends that I haven't seen for a while. There's a lot of little shows that happen. There's like the deluxe on Hate Street. And then there's like, you know, a bunch of different kinds of nights that happen, usually from Sunday to Wednesday, which is for comedians are days off. And so that's when I'll start to go to these little kind of clubs in the city and work things out. So I'll kind of put together just everything new, you know, just out of notes that I have. And I'll do that and I'll do that in different cities and then I'll work them into my larger performances whereas I will have some like level of prepared material but then I'll also work on the new script from New Thing and also improvise where I am. And it just grows, you know, but usually it's built from a small, you know, maybe two or three jerks and it'll grow into an hour of comedy that would be ready. It would take about maybe a year.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, yeah, that's a major problem with alcohol and ambient and also opiates too. I mean, the whole thing wrecks your liver, but on top of that, it's a judgment that goes completely out the window. Like you don't know what you're doing. There's something that alcohol does in that. It just really messes everything up.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And weird sexual situations that were like, I should not, or like who am I talking to in this manner that I don't remember even meeting? What is going on? All these things at once. And you go, I have to get out of this. Like, this is really a weird space because it's almost like somebody takes over your body for you and drives it. Yeah.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I just think that there were so many patches in my memory that I didn't understand why I didn't remember and I didn't understand. Like I could feel the generation of my brain. I could really feel it. I can really sense that. I don't think I'm going to get that part of my brain back. I really felt an emptiness. Like I cleared out, like I had deleted files that I didn't want to delete. And that was so terrible. You know, when you just have like a blank space when you should have something there and evidence that things that were not going wrong, like room service, I don't know that I ordered. And, you know, like weird photos on my phone that I don't know who these people are and why I have them.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, you know, it wasn't like I went to rehab and it wasn't like I sought treatment, which most people should. But I just was able to escape, fortunately”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It just became really apparent. So I just kind of threw everything away and then, you know, I told everybody around me, my circle, my work. And, you know, I was talking about it on stage and I made it very clear that this is a problem that I was going through. And I think just making it not a secret anymore was really what it was all about. When I wasn't having to hide the sick or talk, you know, if I talked about it, then it really resolved the situation. I fortunately was able to just walk away. And I was very sick for a time because it's the natural, you know, that's what happens when you take those drugs. But afterwards, I was much better and I didn't have a need to go fast to it or a sense that this was going to be repeated.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I just really had no idea how much I was taking. I really had no idea what I was taking. I didn't understand the contraindications I could account the complete crazy things that I was doing to myself. And then I was taking all this ambient, which is another thing, which I think is actually very, very dangerous drug that many, many people are very dependent on. But I also have a very, I have a bad insomnia problem. And so, but that insomination with opiates is deadly thing. You know, my friend Anna Nicole Smith died from that. And really, it was that kind of suicidal behavior of taking so much pills and not knowing if I would wake up and not really thinking I would wake up. I think that. That was really.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They're just not getting it. And the positivity that or the burst of positivity that an opiate can give you, of course, which is countered by terrible depression, which is actually worse than your baseline, makes everything way, way worse. I can see why that would be attractive. I mean, that's what I have. I'm kind of, I have that kind of a downward sort of saying, I take some effort to look for positivity and also for gratitude, which is why I'm so grateful for my own gratitude and why I need it so much.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I think that people who are really ADD, you know, who are really kind of scatter brains and their minds are everywhere. I think that just like hyperactive kids are given, Riddle and Adderall, I think they're really helped or they tend to crave stimulants because it focuses them. And then I think that people who are pretty focused but depressed and kind of moody, minor chord like downward gazing, bummed out people are really helped and lifted by opiates because they offer this injections of endorphins, which is something that they're even lacking like their serotonin's messed up or whatever.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It can be really, really hard. And then the lifestyle also, because it's very solitary. You're traveling all the time. Your sleep schedule is off. It's weird. It's like jet leg and then also press and shows. So it's a very destructive and very difficult lifestyle, almost like being in a band, but you're not with anybody else. You're the only one. As musicians are very legendarily known to be very self-destructive in the same way, at least they have a community with them on tour, even if it's just a few guys in a van. So we don't have that. As comics were just alone. And it can be really messy.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think they tend to fall on one side or the other. I mean, I myself can speak that. I'm much more of a depressant. I'm much more like a downer. But I've never been a cocaine or whatever. That's never been my thing. But then there's people who just want everything. And then stand-up comics in particular, like our job is really to obsess on things. That's what stand-up comedy is, is just obsessing over a topic. And you're just going crazy on something. And, you know, that's fine in the context of standing about comedy, but it's terrible if you're just living in the world. The connection with comics being depressed and self-destructive and suicidal, it goes with the territory because the job requires that kind of thinking. So it can be pretty difficult to manage that. And then if you add drugs on top of that,”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That or even to morphine or methadone or anything kind of any opiates, that was really my problem. And it was really, really destructive. But at the same time, you don't exactly feel high. So it's almost a cheat. Like you're actually not really high. You're just not sick. you get properly addicted to those drugs there really are no they have no use At all as a They really only serve to keep you from being sick, which is a really bad thing.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, everything like Percoet, you know, you can get, oh, you know, like you could get, oh, this is weird, but you know what lean is or scissorp, which is like hydrocodone cough syrup.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's very weird because, you know, it really shatters a lot of these illusions of, I don't know, maturity and being sane, like sanity and stuff. So that's a whole another thing. It's hard to disclose, but it's also important to because that honesty keeps me not sober because I still drink red wine, but I think it keeps me sort of more sane than I would because it's a really crazy addiction to have.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think that I earlier I'm working on a show that's really about mental illness and addiction, which is part of the sort of trajectory of the thing that I'm trying to explain. So I'm talking a lot about prescription pill addiction, which I had a really bad case of it. I stopped about a year ago. Before that it had been about five years where I was really having a problem. But it's like one of those things where, you know, that addiction is really strange because it's so deadly and destructive just in the way that a heroin addiction would be, but it's prescribed by a doctor and I was actually getting it from my actual doctor and it was that there was all of these levels of legitimacy.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But then women are now, I realize, and I look back on, you know, women's sexuality, women's bisexuality is a lot more, I don't know, it's a lot more easy to deal with or people have a harder time dealing with men and male sexuality and fluidity there, but what's hard is women who are just like who justify us lesbians. They think they have a hard time as opposed to women who are bisexual. There's some kind of glamour and majesty attached to bisexual women that I'm not sure is true, but it certainly exists as a kind of an archetype or stereotype even.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In relationship with women and stuff. And I had to hide that, which always felt odd and weird, that I could have fine relationships with men and show that, but with women it was somehow wrong. And so I really gave up trying to pretend that I was anything but myself very early.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Per No, it's nerve-wracking thing because you want to have a semblance of privacy. And then sometimes when you reveal things on stage that, you know, it can be kind of weird. I think that I think that privacy is really overrated, though, because it's just a kind of a social construct that doesn't really mean that much because all human beings are, we felt all the same things. We've had all the same heartbreaks and tragedies and dumb things and stupid things. None of us are a stranger to that. If you've lived it all, you know, so it's not like anything I say, it's not like something we haven't everybody hasn't felt, but still things can feel odd and weird. But so I was more conscious of it when I was younger. Like I'm bisexual and I was really scared of revealing that for maybe the first 10 years of my career because I was told by my management then that it would be really bad to be gay in any way and that I should not express that. And so that was a really scary thing because, you know,”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He died, but he was a big shepherd mix, like a big, like fluffy guy that you would get at the pound Of kind of every dog at once, but he was the best.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, I think Madonna is great. I love Chrissy Hind. I love a lot of female rock singers. I am a musician also, so I get a lot of inspiration from Bjork. And, you know, like just music is always really inspiring and just like the performance style of somebody like Janice Joplin, I would love to capture as a comedian, that would be my ideal if I could be a comedian that is what is Janice Joplin as a singer, that would be great. So singers are incredibly influential. And I think it's because a long, long, long time ago, I happened upon a pet psychic who there was a, I had a dog who I loved very much, and it was like this television show about pet psychic. So I was doing it. I was talking to her and she said that my dog thought that I was a singer because dogs don't understand what stand up comedy is. So I thought that was the sweetest”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“From the partner or whatever, it's very interesting, you know, and then you can also talk to other people around them, like people that are seated next to them. Like, what was this person like before the show? What were they saying? And what led us to this? And then somebody from another part of the room will complain about it. And then you go over there and do the same thing. But it can be very, very interesting because you just utilize what they're saying and you incorporate it into what you're doing. And then if you have an encyclopedic knowledge of your jokes and therefore, you know, you can call on anything that you might have that would be relevant. But I love that immediacy. I think it is really what is great about Stanford is that there's that potential to do anything.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I'll ask why they are yelling out or what the purpose is of what they need, and then I can ask them about who they're with. I can ask the person they're with about why they're saying that. Why are they like that? Are they like this all the time? Is this a special thing? And then I'll get an explanation.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, that's great. I learned from Paula Poundstone, who's an absolute genius at that. I mean, she'll do a show, and if somebody gets up to go to the bathroom, she'll go to their chair. She'll go to their chair and she'll take their jacket and put it on and go through their pocket And really, just I mean, she is so fearless when it comes to talking to an audience. And so I learned that from her. I mean, it doesn't have to detract from your performance. It can really be an incredible journey that will only be taken one time. And, you know, it's not to encourage echoing, it shows, but sometimes it's really inevitable. So my goal is to just try to take that road as it presents itself. If it doesn't work, usually the only reason it doesn't work is that the person is too drunk. Then all this happens kicked out. Right.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, there's different types, but the best thing to do is to really just out and out engage somebody and really try to find out what they're trying to say. And so there's no set lines or there's no scripted idea of what to say to shut them down. It's really going deeper and finding out why this person was choosing to disrupt a performance that everybody has paid for, that everybody is there and agreed to sit for why does somebody want to rebel against that. And so I'm curious about it. And I'll usually give them quite a lot of time. Like if I have, if there's, because there's a potential to create a whole show around them. And this is something I learned from.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't really have that ability. So I build it from the ground up and I build it from scratch every time from the beginning. That in itself, it's a huge risk. When you're not necessarily relying on a tried and true and things that you know work and you're going into everything, you really are plugging into something designed, but that divinity is not always reliable because we're human. So it can be really just very scary. And I think that that's the energy that I thrive off of. That's what I love, but that innately is kind of a risky behavior.”
2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT