Margaret Cho vs White Supremacy: High-Minded Comedy from the Gutter

“You have this sort of great ability to be high-minded and also gutter... I'm not so woke that I can't be in the gutter. You know, you have to like do it from the gutter because it's so important. That's what comedy is. It's But to hit the high and low, that's where I want to be all the time.”

“It's a kind of um reestablishing of white supremacy that you don't want to do, that you don't need to do because society's always going to do that for us. So, if we can stand out against that and use our intelligence and our gifts to supersede that, then you're making a dent in the idea of white supremacy entirely.”

“I think there's all these false equivalencies of like well Pete Davidson's dad it's like yeah but Pete's made a sort of talked about that a lot... But I was like, it's weird to have to Google someone's tragedy in the middle of a roast to understand why the joke makes sense.”

“I try every day. Every day, regardless of whether I'm like going on the road or doing a new show, I write a joke every day in the morning. Always. It doesn't have to be funny, okay? Doesn't have to be usable, but it's like it just starts my mind going.”

“He was just such a great he really taught me how to write topically and how to like get all the meat off the bone. He was just such a special person... I almost was called Jokes Slinger.”