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Using Mom as a Comedy Prop

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    Margaret Cho talks about her mother's reaction to her comedy

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So welcome thank you I should imagine comedy comedy music -- movies -- -- okay let's face it let's talk about this new dvd your sixth concert films have independence what grounds you covering the fun and there's a lot of different stuff I mean it's it's a comedy show but there's a little music is.

I have comedy album that I came -- -- -- dependent and so.

It's them -- -- Madison guest stars.

And that you know it's it's like this is -- it's like a lot different being or a lot of seven against with the stars -- -- like that need others to that was about -- a lot of fun.

Yeah you know since you mentioned it let's show a quick clip from that what we can show here yeah.

Anything like this to hard check it out.

Dancing With The Stars is old people's.

-- -- pop old people and my mother loves it so much -- seven.

She would pump every rehearsal -- every every ABC we -- in the front row the taping and I could not even.

Look at here because she would he made his low pitched -- that only I could hear.

Nothing.

Dan boom -- so she didn't fall -- I'd sit there your mom from his -- character makes it into the act many times and what is her reaction.

She -- editing she vetoes it that she does tend to give me things like.

-- -- These -- each.

Really did seem to Syria had -- resonate with the stories he tells me I get -- -- late this grabbing little things that he says so.

But she's very into it she thinks it's really funny and fun and she's credit starved -- Analogy -- father and are dead you write jokes as well yeah my Brothers that -- to -- prayer that he was also -- Does it -- to you read all different kinds of books and and I think that is where I learned that my reading Simon and he committees typewriter.

That it's actually -- I held pencil -- correctly I still do.

It's something that you know we don't really think about -- you you know you teach kids that how to -- I was never really taught how to write correctly say sell.

Have like kind of difficult -- that says.

When he taught me how to use the typewriter I really started to understand how her wits together and -- -- -- lets -- -- becoming more for a red and also.

A blocker -- every -- there's a lot and think that he taught me that I think really -- in my -- in the arts action and even doing this since you were fourteen yes and stand up to sixteen and you know what you learn a big lesson in this industry and we saw about a little before in terms of how you for women in the industry now I -- you take a little bit more more creative control.

Over your own war excellent lesson plans well I mean I think it's really about creative control and really thank you making your own thing in the -- love to do you standup comedy so much and that's like me who job and then I I can -- and different things like and the actor also has never gonna show contacted the event which is great and so I split my time between -- and then dealing standup comedy bits and Connie -- that I -- always do because it is.

Play all of that created control in really.

Telling your story and ending your own thing and it's very independent and I really love -- -- of the sport women -- comedy there's not a lot of women comedy.

And they should be -- so I'm.

Always trying to push like a feminist points out there has for something that and is not heard enough.

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