Margaret Cho finds the humor in Katrina, a voice for the voiceless
Bisexual comic Margaret Cho talked with Sheerly Avni about Hurricane Katrina, stupid white men, and the question: when can we be funny again? Her answer? "Oh, immediately. You have to start right at the moment it's happening, because there's nothing worse than having no hope, and humor represents hope." She did just that regarding Katrina too: "I was talking about how people were just shooting at clouds, shooting at anything looked like weather and also that [switches into her patented Valley girl accent] me, personally, if I didn't, like, have a house and I was all wet? I'd be soooo looting."
Her new film Bam Bam and Celeste premieres this week at the Toronto Film Festival - and her new self-produced concert film Assassin is available now in select cities - and yes, no surprise here, but Assassin's more political. She notes, "The thing is that no matter what I actually say, the nature of my existence is political, because I'm an Asian American woman talking about queer rights and race and gender."
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