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Margaret Cho

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  1. “I think because I will come off of anything scripted and I will go with the flow and then I will really engage with an audience in a very personal level. Like I'm not the kind of artist that can go on autopilot, which actually happens much more than people realize.”

    2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “Just a lot of the kind of freshness and the unpredictability of what live performance and stand-up comedy is, which to me is the greatest part of it. So that was really terrible. And then bad shows. I mean, I probably have the worst shows of anybody in my category, you know, in the level that I am as a comedian because I'm so committed to taking risks as a performer, I can really do terribly. And sometimes that can be really scary if you're, say, in different countries, like in England or Scotland where it's like there's a high egg factor if you don't do well in comedy and I've had really bad flights and you know Of instances where I was really scared for physical harm because I really was not, I give it to people. I really let them have it if I'm backed into a corner. And so It can be really nuts. People can get really angry.”

    2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “There were a couple of times where I lost my voice and then I had to without having a voice. So I utilize some voice software in my computer. And then I also brought people on to some stage who would act things out, or I would actually act them out and they would read them from behind so it was like a puppet or something. So that was helpful. But it was really terrifying to not have the capacity to deal with a heckler, which I'm very good at. It's one of my specialities, where I deal with like, you know, kind of the immediacy of live performance. You know, I took away my spontaneity. It took away”

    2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “Just general philosophy. I don't think so. I should. I mean, it would be really great to have that as a practice, to make a gratitude list, or something like that. But mostly it's just an attitude every day. Like, I'm really happy in what I do. I really love what I do. It's a really great feeling to do what you love. For me, it's about making money, of course, but I would still do stand-up comedy without making anything. I put just as much effort into every show, no matter how much I'm making or whatever, it's something that I always wanted and I'm so happy that I get to do it. And I think that it's just wonderful. So I don't actually have a practice, but that might be something nice to implement later.”

    2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “She was incredible. And also, the reason why she and I were closest is that she really taught me a lot about gratitude. You know, she had intense and immense gratitude for everything in her life and wanted me and all these other comedians that she would foster in a way that she wanted to instill that in us, that this was a really magical thing, this gift that we were given, and that we should be really grateful for it. And that's the most valuable lesson I've ever learned from anyone. So she was really culmination parent, like a mother and whatever, like Mr. Miyagi, like Pat Marita from Karate Kid. She was a really great mentor and a great woman.”

    2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “I think that she was so unafraid. She was so just her fearlessness and she was a woman and she was just so mighty. And, you know, as a live comic, you know, like the stuff that she would do in clubs and at night and not including the Emmy Lowe's red carpet stuff or the Oscar stuff, she was so filthy. I mean, she was so, I mean, two, the very end. You know, just the most raunchy comedian you could even imagine and she would shock us, you know, the most unshockable people.”

    2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “The main model for my earliers and then, of course, pretty much until now was Joan Rivers. And that's been a very difficult. Right now, a lot of comedians are feeling the loss of both her and Robin Williams. And it's a terrible time in comedy because it's like we lost the King and the Queen. It's like who is the heir parent, but mostly it's the sorrow and mourning. So it's pretty terrible.”

    2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “All I decided that I was going to do professionally when I understood that I was going to become an adult when at some point that this would be my job and my identity. As soon as I understood what the job of stand-up comedy was, then I became very committed to doing it. And that's, I think, an unusual thing maybe for somebody to choose a profession at eight years old. But I knew that it was actually more than a profession. It was really a kind of a calling. And then I really started early. I started doing professional performances at 14. I was touring by 15. I was making pretty great living by 18. And then I was on television by 20. So it was a very, very Important thing for me, and it was really destiny.”

    2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “Different things that Well, I think that I have the equivalent of a morning pages sort of thing because I work almost every day. I mean, I perform almost every day. There are different things that I do, but as a sign of comic, it is really a daily effort. And so, you know, you kind of burn off all of those kind of like ideas that are like lace floating on the top, and then you can get to the real need of it. So I guess I have that kind of a meditation too. I wish that I had more of that as a writer, you know, as an author. For me, that's something that I would like to pursue more, but I still don't have the intent need for it that I do as a stand-up comedian.”

    2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  10. “In that it just sustains me, that it's the way that I make a living, but it's also my social life and a great pastime and a great, great, great thing to do.”

    2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  11. “It's exactly the same. What compels me is a need to be heard and a need to make people laugh and a need to express what I think things that need to be said and also to just have a good time. And I've had that impulse, I think since I was about eight years old. I've always wanted to be a comedian. The impulse to do it, the intention, everything is the same. There's nothing as altered. And I think this is probably the same for most comedians out there. There are quite a lot of people who do develop a kind of aversion to it after doing it for, say, 30, 40 years. They really feel like they need to retire. But I'm more on the side of, I think I need to do it more, actually, as I get older. So unfortunately,”

    2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  12. “Well, usually I just think I identify mostly as a stand up comedian. And thank you for your kind words. I was excited to connect with you too, as I'm a big fan. But comedy is really what I would say I do. I think probably you're the same in that you are quite a multi-phenet in the different things you write about and the different things you talk about. And so how would you define yourself besides, would it just be author or would it be chef or body expert or thinking expert or multi-tricky because as you are an author, I guess I am a stand-up comedian, you know, that's the basic place where we start from, but there's so much more.”

    2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  13. “Today I am in West Palm Beach, Florida. There is something of a big storm outside, so that's Thunder. But I'm always on the road, so I'm doing a show here today.”

    2014-11-11 · The Tim Ferriss Show · Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT