There are things that are delicious beyond compare. Coffee is one of those things. The mysterious dark brew, the drink that is bitter and complex, chaste and filthy at once, that both wakes you and c...
I’m excited to announce my new tour – MOTHER! My all new standup show, MOTHER, offers up an untraditional look at motherhood and how we look at maternal figures and strong women in queer ...
Sometimes people get very upset when menstruation is mentioned but I don’t think it is upsetting in the least. I remember I had a friend who would blanch at the topic every time it was brought up. Sh...
Lots of my Hollywood showbiz friends have adopted children and the majority of them are beautiful little girls from China who look so much like me I could have fathered them all if such were possible...
All my love to the families and friends of the Mount Everest hikers who lost their lives. The tragedy is made more heartbreaking because all we are trying to do is go up, rise up, get up, see how far...
If something got stuck in my teeth I think that I could be driven insane by it. I am not sure if I have gotten over the trauma of the orthodontist, and the bizarre tiny tortures my mouth endured for ...
Margaret Cho will be on the season finale of 30 Rock on NBC tonight! If you missed Margaret on 30 Rock last week, you can watch the full episode here.
It’s devastating I know, and I can say nothing to help, yet, I am always going to try. Even though nothing can be done, I will always try to do something. That is the kind I am. I never met Donna Sum...
You were and have been and still are love of my life, even though you are to the rest of the world nothing but a dead dog. Isn’t that funny that my soul mate turned out to be an animal? It makes sens...
The hour that gives me the most difficulty is 2pm. I am good in the mornings. The sunrise is ever hopeful, the strange way you can tell light is new, the way it comes at you, shy through the trees. Y...
Listen, I am so scared of the dentist. I really am. I take insanely good care of my teeth, and they may not be the whitest, but they chew ok and don’t hurt ever and serve me well. The only time my te...
Margaret Cho appeared on “Finding Your Roots” on Sunday, May 6 2012. Watch the full episode: Watch Martha Stewart, Margaret Cho, and Sanjay Gupta on PBS. See more from Finding Your Roots.
There is a hunger felt on planes that feels irrational and uncontrollable. What is it about flying high in the sky in shiny metal tubes that makes my stomach growl like a beast? Does altitude affect ...
That Jesus died for our sins is a weird story always to me, because why did he have to die? Why did anyone have to die? Where was God’s capacity to forgive? Why couldn’t god just bypass the payment o...
I think about Chewbacca with a ferocity and intensity one would think that I actually had some kind of Wookie genealogy, because I think of him as family. I think of Wookies as myself and my own, as ...
Margaret Cho’s episode of Finding Your Roots airs this coming Sunday, May 6, from 8-9 pm ET on PBS (check local listings). You can see a clip of Margaret talking about living in the Castro in the 70s...
I’m so thrilled to return to 30 Rock and I’m super excited about these episodes. I think I really get to show my dictator side! -Margaret Margaret Cho is back! She will appear on 30 Rock’...
Obviously this was written months ago and just posted now. Just so you know – I know it’s not Christmas! Today is a special day because its that weird week between Christmas and New Years...
I have never been arrested, and that is really kind of a miracle, truly remarkable considering the amounts of bad I have done. Nothing in the way of harming anyone, as I have harmed myself most in my...
I learned to drive in a beater of a car, an old Buick Le Sabre, massive and almost impossible to park on the curb starved streets of San Francisco. because of that thing I can parallel park with the ...
I went to a party once at a big celebrity’s home, thrown annually with another big celebrity, a sort of a fun joint birthday celebration, which was neither fun nor celebratory nor were there any join...
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There’s some dog guests today at the house, which makes my dog children crazy and wild with excitement. New dog butts to sniff, unfamiliar tails to chase and everyone’s precious little hackles go up,...
I love this. It’s Whitney Houston’s first tv appearance. Whitney’s nervous, I think, but that doesn’t affect her performance in the least. She looks perfect, her nerves just adding to her innocence a...
this is a repost – to say RIP my old friend In 1994, I co-hosted Dick Clark New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, and we filmed that shit nowhere near New Years. It was like in July or something really early...
Are you old enough of a person to remember reading zines? I once wrote a song about them, but I can’t find the demo now. I will have to rewrite it, if it’s worth it. I think so. Zines were tiny self ...
With my new mesh armor I felt unstoppable. I am super hero looking. I could pose for pictures with tourists in front of Mann’s Chinese theatre. I love body armor. It’s protective and looks cool and m...
Have you ever seen people who go out of their way to wear unflattering things because they are so good looking that they can pull off even the most terrible looks? This is very common amongst dancers...
Listen to all of Margaret’s live stand up concerts on Spotify! Check out Cho Dependent: Live in Concert here:
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