Chogasm! An Interview with Margaret Cho

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Metro Weekly cover in three decades, and I’m sheepishly begging forgiveness for how we handled the previous headlines, bastardizing her last name for the sake of a pun. “Cho-Zen.” “On With the Cho.” “Cho Girl.”“It’s all good,” she laughs, taking it in stride.

One thing about Margaret Cho is that she doesn’t offend easily, if at all.I then reveal to her that we’re calling this one “Chogasm!”She laughs again. “Oh, that’s perfect!”Naturally, this leads to a conversation about the 56-year-old’s sex life.“I have lots of sex, and I have lots of Chogasms!” she says, jubilantly bursting forth with the kind of personal details other celebrities would slink away from. “And I have lots of varied kinds of relationships with different types of people, whether that’s men or women or trans people or non-binary people.

Also my relationships with them are all the same. It’s very ‘friends with benefits.’ And there’s lots of benefits to that. And lots of friends.”Cho has been high on the public radar since the mid-1990s.

In addition to her famously short-lived (and controversial) 1994 sitcom All-American Girl, she had a small role in Greg Araki’s The Doom Generation, and a part in 1997’s action sizzler Face/Off, of which she laughs, “I gained so much weight!