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By Dylan P. Gadino | August 7, 2013 at 1:21 pm | 0 Comments | feature slider, Interviews | Tags: drop dead diva, Hysterical Literature, In Transition,margaret cho Since Margaret Cho recently announced a long list of new tour dates for her show Mother, I thought it was time to check in with the prolific comedian to see what else was going on in her world. And there are lots of other goings on. In addition to the new tour, which kicks off Aug. 19 in Athens, GA, her Web series In Transition – about a trio of friends just released from prison – is going strong on YouTube, with new episodes posting every Wednesday and her podcast Monsters of Talk, which she hosts with comedian Jim Short, is growing in popularity every week. Cho also just participated in a rather interesting orgasm-themed video art project (which we chat about below), she’s been guest co-hosting on ABCs daytime talk show The View and you can see her every Sunday night at 9 pm ET on Showtime’s hit series Drop Dead Diva, now in its fifth season (The summer finale goes down this coming Sunday). But perhaps most exciting (to me, anyway), she revealed to me that she’s just completed her second musical comedy album. And that’s where we’ll begin. Can you tell me a little about the new album? I’m excited. It’s finished and will be out probably early next year. I did it all with Davíd Garza who is an incredible singer and a songwriter who I love and we did it in this little town in Texas called Tornillo which is outside of Juarez near the border of Mexico. It’s a great record and so I’m really proud of it. It’s comedy songs but it’s also just songs that I wanted to write, songs that I think are weird. There are songs about Yoko Ono, songs about North Korea. They’re sort of jokes with refrains; that’s what I’m into. It’s all different genres and it sort of travels from hip-hop to country to soul to R&B and indie rock. It’s fun. Does it have a name? Right now it’s called Unholy Love– so we’ll see how long that lasts. And is like your first music album Cho Dependent, where there’s a bunch of guest players? No, actually it’s just me and Davíd and he played everything. I played a little and I sang, but he’s such a great multi-instrumentalist that we just sort of had ourselves and that was kind of all we needed— and all his great equipment. You guest co-hosted The View a few times now. And you’ve made it clear you want the job full-time. Are the folks at ABC searching for another host? I don’t know, I guess so! I mean it seems like they need another person. Who knows, you know. I hope so because two people left. If Joy Behar is leaving and Elisabeth already left, so I don’t know. I don’t know what they’ve been thinking. I’m definitely down, and I wanted to do it so badly that I made a video dressed as Catwoman because years ago Sean Young wanted to be Catwoman and dressed up as Catwoman and went to the set of Batman to try to get the job. So I thought if I dressed up as Catwoman it would show how passionate I was about the job. You recently announced new tour dates for your show Mother. How has the reception been so far? It’s been really great. I mean you never really plan it and you never know what’s going to happen with a live performance—especially with the overturn of DOMA recently. That’s why it’s so awesome and it’s a great format to do that. It’s like when you get to a certain point in comedy you’re able to kind of let go of what you expect and kind of go with a feeling— and that’s really inspiring. You mention DOMA, which has to be especially important for you. You’ve long been a strong supporter of gay marriage and you’re legally allowed to officiate weddings, right? Yes, I’m deputized in San Francisco and I also have one of those universal life ministry cards—so that’s great. But it’s a great thing to be able to perform wedding ceremonies in City Hall in San Francisco; that has a huge amount of importance to me because that was where Harvey Milk first appeared on the political scene and he’s somebody that I admire very much. And it’s also where he was assassinated, so, in a lot of ways, it’s a very sacred kind of a place. It’s a place where something so tragic happened and then to be able to do something so beautiful as being able to marry people there, it’s pretty profound. Have you married anyone lately? Not lately, but I’m gearing up to do a whole bunch. In San Francisco? All over. I’ve done them in San Francisco; I’ve done them in Provincetown, Massachusetts and I would love to do more and definitely plan on doing more. When these people get married, do they know going in that Margaret Cho is marrying them? Yeah in a couple of instances people have asked me to do it, but it’s always different. It’s always new and it’s always people who are in different stages of relationships. You get all different kinds of people who want to have that union and to have that family. So that’s a really great thing. It must be a pretty intense feeling to be able not only to see gay people getting married but actually be part of the process. Oh, it’s incredible, and it’s incredible to have fought for something so long and then actually see the change. To see laws change and the world change to accommodate gay marriage, it’s really great. Fundamentally speaking, why do you think it’s taken this long to overturn DOMA? I don’t know. People utilize all sorts of reasoning when it comes to supporting their own fear, their own hatred or homophobia, why things shouldn’t happen, why people’s rights shouldn’t happen. There are a lot of weird ideas out there about what kind of control we have over other people’s lives and what kind of morality we can apply to the laws and the legal system. There are people who feel like they can override the concept of equality with their own personal beliefs— and that is so strange to me. Equal rights should be obvious. It’s just about respecting individuality. Let’s talk about Hysterical Literature, which is a video art project, in which you’ve participated. Basically, you read from a book you’ve selected and eventually – due to some activity under the table at which you’re seated – you are brought to orgasm. So I have to ask, what’s going on under the table? It’s [artist] Clayton Cubitt’s girlfriend Katie who is really great. She’s a lovely young woman. What they do is they put a sound proof blanket over your lap so you can’t hear the buzz of the Hitachi Magic Wand which is actually quite loud. So, Katie is under there moving it around. They’re very nice people and I’m a big fan of Clayton Cubitt’s so it was easy for me to say yes to it although I’d never met Katie before and I had never thought about what it was going to be like. I like what Clayton is doing. I think it’s really interesting to see that side of sexuality and I’m not opposed to any kind of sexual expression, so it was just right for me. What was hard about it is that I kept losing my place. Yeah, I can imagine. I’m not somebody who’s really readily affected by literature in that manner, so I didn’t choose [a book] that was particularly important to me. I just chose whatever seemed appropriate for the situation. I thought it was really funny. I laughed too loud; I kind of went into hysterics, but it was just a really funny, really crazy thing.
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Dylan P. Gadino | 7. kolovoz 2013 u 13:21 | 0 komentara | obilježje klizač, intervjui | Tags: Drop Dead Diva, histerična književnosti, u tranziciji, Margaret Cho Od Margaret Cho je nedavno objavila dugačak popis novih datume turneje za njezin show Majke , mislila sam da je vrijeme da provjerite u plodan komičar vidjeti što se još događalo u njezinom svijetu. A tu su i mnoge druge zbivanja na. Osim novog turneje, koja poèinje 19. kolovoz u Ateni, GA, njezin web serije u tranziciji - o trio prijatelja samo pušten iz zatvora - ide jaka na YouTube, s novim epizodama objavljivanja svake srijede i njezini podcast Monsters razgovora , koji je domaćin s komičar Jim Short, raste u popularnosti svaki tjedan. Cho je također samo sudjelovao u zanimljivom orgazam-tematske video art projekta (koji se razgovarati o nastavku), ona je bila gost co-hosting na ABC dnevnu talk show u pogledu i možete je vidjeti svake nedjelje navečer u 21:00 ET na Showtime hit Serija Drop Dead Diva, sada u svojoj petoj sezoni (ljeto finale ide dolje ovaj dolazak nedjelja). No, možda najuzbudljivije (za mene, svejedno), otkrila mi je da je upravo završio svoj drugi album glazbene komedije. I to je mjesto gdje ćemo početi. Možete li mi reći nešto o novom albumu? Ja sam uzbuđen. To je završio i da će biti izvan najvjerojatnije početkom iduće godine. I sve to učinio s Davidom Garza koji je nevjerojatno pjevačica i tekstopisac koji volim i da je to učinio u ovom gradiću u Teksasu pod nazivom tornillo koji je izvan Juarez u blizini granice Meksika. To je veliki rekord i tako sam jako ponosan na njega. To je komedija pjesme, ali to je također samo pjesme koje sam htjela pisati, pjesme za koje mislim da su čudno. Postoje pjesme o Yoko Ono, pjesme o Sjevernoj Koreji. Oni su neka vrsta šale s refrenima; to je ono što sam u. To je sve različitih žanrova i vrsta putuje od hip-hop na zemlji duši R & B i indie rocka. To je zabavno. Ima li to ime? Sada se zove Unholy Ljubav - pa ćemo vidjeti koliko dugo da traje. A je kao svoj prvi glazbeni album Cho ovisna, gdje postoji hrpa gosta igrača? Ne, zapravo to je samo ja i David i on je igrao sve. Igrao sam malo i ja pjevao, ali on je kao veliki multi-instrumentalist da smo samo vrsta sebe imala i to je vrsta sve što needed- i sva njegova velika opremu. Vi gost co-domaćin The View nekoliko puta danas. A ti si dao do znanja da želite posao na puno radno vrijeme. Jesu li ljudi na ABC-u potrazi za još jedan domaćin? Ne znam, valjda tako! Mislim da se čini kao da je potrebno još jednu osobu. Tko zna, da znate. Nadam se, jer se dvoje ljudi napustili. Ako Joy Behar odlazi i Elisabeth već napustili, tako da ne znam. Ne znam što ste mislili. Ja sam definitivno dolje, a ja sam htjela to tako loše da sam napravio video odjeven kao Catwoman zbog godina Sean Young želio biti Catwoman i odjeven kao Catwoman i otišao na set Batman pokušati dobiti posao. Pa sam mislio da sam odjeven kao Catwoman bi pokazati kako strastveni sam o poslu. Nedavno ste najavili nove datume turneje za svoj show majke. Kako je recepcija i do sada? Prošlo je stvarno super. Mislim da nikada stvarno ga planirati i nikad ne znate što će se dogoditi s live izvedbe, osobito s sruši od doma nedavno. To je razlog zašto je toliko strašan i to je veliki format za to. To je kao kad dođete do određene točke u komediji ste u mogućnosti vrsta pustiti ono što očekujem i vrsta ide s feeling- i to je jako inspirativno. Spomenuli ste doma, koji mora biti posebno važno za vas. Vi dugo nisam bio snažno podupirao gay brak i da ste zakonski dopušteno dužnost vjenčanja, zar ne? Da, ja sam zamjenjuje u San Franciscu, a također sam jedan od onih univerzalnih ministarstva život karticama SO to je super. No, to je velika stvar da bi mogli obavljati vjenčanja u Gradskoj vijećnici u San Franciscu; koji ima ogroman značaj za mene, jer to je gdje je Harvey Milk prvi put pojavio na političkoj sceni, a on je netko da se divim jako puno. I to je također mjesto gdje je on bio ubijen, tako da, na mnogo načina, to je vrlo sveta vrsta mjestu. To je mjesto gdje se nešto tako tragično dogodilo, a zatim biti u mogućnosti učiniti nešto tako lijepo kao što je u mogućnosti da se uda ljude tamo, to je prilično duboka. Jeste li u braku bilo tko u zadnje vrijeme? Ne u zadnje vrijeme, ali ja sam sprema učiniti hrpu. U San Franciscu? Sve više. Ja sam ih radi u San Franciscu; Ja sam ih učinio u Provincetown, Massachusetts, a ja bih volio raditi više i sigurno planirate raditi više. Kad ti ljudi oženiti, oni znaju događa da Margaret Cho je njima ženili? Da je u nekoliko slučajeva ljudi su me pitali za to, ali to je uvijek drugačiji. To je uvijek nova i to je uvijek ljudi koji su u različitim fazama odnosa. Dobivate sve različite vrste ljudi koji žele da se taj sindikat i da se tu obitelj. Dakle, to je stvarno velika stvar. To mora biti prilično intenzivan osjećaj biti u mogućnosti ne samo da vide što homoseksualci udaje, ali zapravo biti dio procesa. Oh, to je nevjerojatno, i to je nevjerojatno da su se borili za nešto tako dugo, a onda zapravo vidjeti promjene. Da biste vidjeli zakoni promjene i svjetski promjenu prihvatiti gay brak, to je stvarno super. U osnovi govoreći, zašto misliš da je to uzeti vremena da ukine doma? Ne znam. Ljudi koriste sve vrste zaključivanja, kada je u pitanju podržava njihov vlastiti strah, svoju mržnju ili homofobiju, zašto stvari ne bi trebalo dogoditi, zašto prava ljudi ne bi trebalo dogoditi. Postoji mnogo čudnih ideja vani o tome kakvu kontrolu imamo nad tuđim životima i kakav moralnosti možemo primijeniti na zakonima i pravnom sustavu. Postoje ljudi koji se osjećaju kao da mogu nadjačati koncept jednakosti sa svojim osobnim beliefs- i da je tako čudno za mene. Jednaka prava trebalo biti očito. To je samo o poštivanju individualnosti. Razgovarajmo o histerična književnosti, koja je umjetnički projekt videa, u kojima ste sudjelovali su. Uglavnom, dobro ste pročitali iz knjige koju ste odabrali i na kraju - zbog nekih aktivnosti pod stol na kojem ste sjedi - što se doveo do orgazma. Pa moram pitati, što se događa ispod stola? To je [Artist] Claytona Cubitt djevojka Katie, koji je stvarno super. Ona je lijepa mlada žena. Ono što oni rade je da stavite zvuka dokaz deku preko krilu, tako da se ne mogu čuti glasine o Hitachi Magic Wand koji je zapravo prilično glasno. Dakle, Katie je u tu se kreće oko. Oni su vrlo lijepe ljude, a ja sam veliki obožavatelj Clayton Cubitt a tako je bilo lako za mene reći da na njega, iako nikada nisam upoznao Katie prije i nikad nisam razmišljao o tome što je bio idući u biti slično. Sviđa mi se što je Clayton se radi. Mislim da je to jako zanimljivo vidjeti tu stranu seksualnosti, a ja nisam za razliku od bilo koje vrste seksualnog izražavanja, tako da je samo prava stvar za mene. Ono što je teško o tome je da sam zadržao izgubiti svoje mjesto. Da, mogu zamisliti. Nisam netko tko je stvarno lako utjecati književnosti na taj način, tako da nisam odaberite [knjigu] to je osobito važno za mene. Upravo sam izabrao ono što se činilo prikladno za situaciju. Mislio sam da je to stvarno smiješno. Nasmijao sam se previše glasno; Nekako sam otišao u histerije, ali to je bio samo stvarno smiješno, stvarno luda stvar.