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Jut you know he’s just got something brew- undemeath—it’s a Southern thing, it’s very iring. He’s wonderful. Margaret Cho and childhood idol Big Bird What’s it like to be on Sesame Street! Is it difficult, to keep a straight face while talking to a puppet? No! Especially Big Bird, because Big Bird is ¡o real, he’s so yellow, and he’s so Winner of The American Comedy Awards “FUNNIEST FEMALE STAND UP COMIC" MARGARET SMITH Did Hillary flirt with you? No! But she’s somebody that I actually jw pretty well, and I really admire her. I’ve n going to New York and attending func- ns to raise money for her campaign. She’s ng to win, and I know that she’s going to do reat job in New York, so I’m behind her all _> way. I’ve been going and doing little cock- _,| things with her. She’s really amazing, I I link she’s the best first lady ever. Many articles about I’m the One That I call you “clean and sober.” Does that you’re straightedge and you don’t even cigarettes anymore? Yeah, actually I gave up cigarettes quite a ago. 1 don’t really do anything.... You ow what I just gave up, which is really ird? Nuts! Isn’t that a weird thing to give up? ealized that I had kind of a problem with ts—it was the cashews and almonds and anuts and all sorts of nuts—and I got to the int where I hit a “nut bottom,” and I had to Itop eating nuts. mini min ii »mu iii-m at Harvey’s Comedy Club! 2 Friday Shows: 8:00pm & 10:30 3 Saturday Shows: 6:30 Dinner Show, 9:00pm and 11:30 Party Show polyamory, freaky, wild, sex deviant march. That’s where my head is at—I’m really into that. 1 want to walk with the leather daddies and the bears, the people that I really connect with in the gay and lesbian community. I’m there representing Slut Pride, which is my own movement. I think it’s going to be a really fun weekend; it’s so volatile, all the stuff that’s hap pening. I’m having my own sort of anti-March thing, but yet still being totally i rrf! .....*..... illu m in im i m m m r rrr m COMEDY May 19th & 20th OHLY! s15 per person. Make your reservations NOW! All shows non-smoking. Tickets on sale now. Order by Phone. Call 241-0338 for reservations • 436 NW 6th at Glisan tall.... When you’re near Big Bird, the emo tional memory of always wanting to be near Big Bird comes out, you really become a child again. I felt really young, I felt really excited and very close to Big Bird. I also felt like it wasn’t a man inside there—I thought, Big Bird is Big Bird, it’s not a man in a suit, it just wasn't. It really made me believe in the magi cal land of Sesame Street and made me remem ber how important Sesame Street was to me growing up. Speaking of puppets...what’s your involve ment in the Millennium March on Washing ton, and what do you think about the anti March movement? I’m actually somewhat involved in the anti March movement myself, because I’m going to be marching with the Freak March. I’m not actually marching in the Millennium March, although I’m going to be speaking at the Mil lennium March, which is great. But I’m march ing in the Freak March, which is the leather, part of the March. I think it’s just going to be awesome for everybody! What’s the status of your book and the film version of your show? The film version of my show is coming out later this year. It’ll be out in theaters in August. The book I’m still writing, and it’ll be out next spring, in 2001. You once said in a standup routine that your favorite pickup line is “Hi, my name’s Margaret—stick it in!” Do you have a new line now that you’re more at peace with yourself, and what line do you use when you’re picking up a girl? I think that my pickup lines are generally gender nonspecific, so that they would work well with men and/or with women. And 1 find that I don’t really have pickup lines anymore. It’s more about finding communication—a look, a smile—it doesn’t take much. Once you’re about my age, you kind of get to under stand people, you get to know people, and it’s pretty easy. Easy—that’s Margaret Cho all right, easy like a fox. Slut pride forever! Chat I Personals | News | Travel | Entertainment | People ■ Margaret Cho performs I’M THE ONE T hat I W ant at 8 p.m. May 5 and 6 at the Crystal Ballroom, 1332 W. Bumside St. in Portland. The show is open to patrons age 21 and over. Tickets are available at selected McMenarruns locations, online at www.ticketweb.com and by phone at (503) 225-0047, ext. 239. C hristopher D. C uttone is a Just Out staff writer and a trashy whore. Planet Outcom WWW planetout.com | AOL Keyword. PlanetOut \_________________________________________________ engage -a- enjoy ___________________________________ __________ /
