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Be So Good No One Can Tell You No

Posted by Dianasaurus Rex on March 15, 2008
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Pop Matters has a twenty questions session up with Ms Margaret Cho and she’s as charming and insightful as usual.

7. You want to be remembered for?
Everything that I do. For being a great comic, for helping out younger comics, for being a good student of comedy, for being a great mentor of comedy. I would like to be remembered as someone who can really make others laugh.

8. Of those who’ve come before, the most inspirational are?
Probably Madonna, then Björk, Roseanne, Rosie O’Donnell – they’re all very inspiring. They are all very different from one another, too. But they’re alike in that they’re true trailblazers.

I live by a Madonna timeline. When she was on the Blonde Ambition tour, I was just getting started on touring myself. When she did Truth or Dare, I was coming into my own as a comedian. When she did the Sex book, I was starting to headline in Las Vegas. By the time Ray of Light came out, I was also getting inspiration from yoga and becoming a mother—a dog mother.

9. The creative masterpiece you wish bore your signature?
I really don’t know. I like my work best! But besides me, I think I would have liked to be as great of a comic as Richard Pryor. He was incredible.

11. The best piece of advice you actually followed?
Be so good no one can tell you ‘no’.

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