Comedian Margaret Cho: 'I Invented The Cancellation'
Loud and unapologetic, and a trailblazer on race and sexuality, the stand-up comic discussed "cancel culture," Asian American comedy and her short-lived sitcom All-American Girl.
Comedian Margaret Cho has spent decades as a trailblazer on race and sexuality, carving out a loud, unapologetic brand on stage and screen. One of her bits is about Asian American women dating white men.
"I think as an Asian American women, we're really fetishized by white culture and white men in particular," she said. "And so there's this thing that we sort of gain power through having relationships with white men. And that kind of thing is like ... our own value pales in comparison to the value of whiteness. So that's really what the joke is trying to say and trying to talk about.
"[The joke] crawls inside the stereotype. It is like a fortune cookie."
Cho grew up
