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Comedian Margaret Cho on Women in Comedy, #MeToo and Asian American Representation_ --- Jul 28, 2023 4:19 AM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [The #MeToo Movement: One Year Later](/video/qOAYRssp/) ### The #MeToo Movement: One Year Later [TIME100 Honorees Praise the #MeToo Movement](/video/I9sbzPGV/) ### TIME100 Honorees Praise the #MeToo Movement [Eddie Huang: "I'm Not Mad at Margaret Cho"](/video/4cs1aqbh/) ### Eddie Huang: "I'm Not Mad at Margaret Cho" --- ## Transcript [00:00] I think I have always been devoted, but the problem is [00:02] that you have to go far. You have to cross that line. [00:07] You have to be able to become completely offensive. [00:10] And, don't get me wrong, but that's the joy of [00:15] it too, that... That's where I think the mastery of it all [00:18] comes in. [ LAUGH ] And throughout my career as a [00:21] comedian, which is very long, it's been about 35 years, [00:24] it's changed drastically for women. The way that [00:27] there's so many more women out there doing comedy, [00:30] that there's so many more very successful women. Not [00:34] that there weren't in the past, but they were just so [00:36] few. The only person that I knew who had really [00:40] broken through was Joan Rivers who was incredibly [00:44] successful. And yet there weren't as many like [00:48] her around at that time. And so now there's quite a [00:51] few more Women, which I think is really great. Being a [00:54] rape survivor, those words, that is the perspective. [00:58] It's not, a victim, it's, a survivor. To be able to [01:03] find a way to talk about it, to bring it into comedy, I [01:05] think is really courageous and tremendous. The [01:08] # MeToo movement is So incredibly important in [01:12] getting these ideas across that we can tell our stories [01:14] and to find a place of peace with it. The [01:19] future of Asian- American representation in television [01:21] and movies is actually getting a lot better. There's no [01:24] way that Hollywood can justify casting Scarlett Johanson [01:28] or Tilda Swinton, they can't. Yeah, cast a white actress [01:31] to play the Yeah, [ UNKNOWN ]. Obviously, it was just a [01:35] huge mistake and a huge miscalculation, and a [01:39] very devastating thing. So, I think that Hollywood is [01:42] really understanding it can't do it. It can't do that type [01:45] of stuff anymore and that's a big deal. So, I think that [01:49] that's gonna Create a big shift and we're gonna see a [01:52] lot more Asians and Asian Americans on big screen. [01:55] Which is great. I don't know if I ever really looked [01:59] at myself as a role model. But I'm glad if I am because [02:03] I know that especially for Asian American artists that [02:06] they've been able to look to my work and say I'm able [02:09] to do this. I can do this. 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