From Huffington Post TV: On Sundance Channel’s “Mortified Sessions,” celebrities reveal their dirty laundry. From how they learned about sex to childhood crushes, they’re not holding anything back. On the upcoming new episode, “Suburgatory” star Cheryl Hines and comedienne Margaret Cho are next to spill their secrets.

For Cho, realizing she wasn’t white was a shock.

“When I was maybe six, I was really angry that I was not white. When I realized I wasn’t white I was so furious … I still have deep fantasies about being white — it must be so relaxing to be white. I wish I could go to the spa and just be white for an hour,” she said.

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Today is the day! Get your copy of Margaret’s 6th concert film, Cho Dependent, filmed at the Tabernacle in Atlanta, GA!

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My new DVD Cho Dependent is out finally and I am so excited! I filmed this show at the Tabernacle in Atlanta where I have performed many times and gone to see such diverse acts as Elvis Costello in a country music guise (where I marveled at the man who I have hugged without the English restraint you need when you hug on some English people – they get scared so please approach them sideways like a crab and hug very quickly on the side or just prepare them in advance for the hug by telling them it is coming and wait about 3 minutes before you do it) and his impressive catalogue – as he has so many songs that he can just pick a genre he wants to do or revisit whether it’s the attractions or country or Juliet letters with strings and tour that – unbelievable – Elvis is the MAN and 30 Seconds to Mars which was probably the most unified front I have ever seen in live music. The entire audience knew all the lyrics to all the songs and Jared only had to lift his fine angelic hands and they knew what to do. It was similar to and rivaled only the great Neil Finn and Crowded House shows I have seen in the United Kingdom. Neil only had to raise up his hand, perhaps an opening guitar riff, and we all knew exactly what song it was and what part harmony we would be singing.

The Tabernacle is an old place, but it’s got banging new sound and a hotshit crew that took good care of us. Many of the people filming this show worked on Drop Dead Diva, and so there was family all around. We parked the beloved tour bus in the back of the theatre, and Al, my darling husband came to join the party, as we were set to leave on a long pasta eating excursion to Rome the next day.  It was the last day of a long tour, and I needed my man and I needed a break and I needed carbs and in their most potent form, pasta. Mmm.  We drove in from sunny, alabaster bright Miami, and I had gotten a Snooki-style tube dress at a South Beach tourist trap, so we were unprepared for the weather. It was actually snowing, tiny flakes of newly frozen water that melted as soon as it hit your bare skin – yes we didn’t even know to put jackets on – we weren’t ready for the surprise that Hotlanta actually gets really fucking cold sometimes.

My voice was in a good way, which is pleasing and not always the case, and I had a smashing set, even though it’s disorienting to film these shows, even though I have shot many of them now, and am accruing quite a library of standup comedy shows on DVD, VHS film – I am up for it all and I love it.  Let’s shoot one with a shoebox camera. When you shoot a comedy show, the audience is illuminated, as they are the stars of the film too, as are you. We are all stars. I saw all my friends in the audience, my Atlanta heartthrobs and heroines, and we stayed late at the Tabernacle afterwards with wine and cheese from my prodigious tour rider which is basically a breakdown of what is happening in the cheese world today. Bring on the dairy. If it’s a party, I want to get drunk on dairy. The wine is just to cut the richness, but seriously you could leave that off. I don’t care. I just want cheese.

I am proud of this show because there are lots of surprises, lots of variety elements, songs I love to sing and exciting new material which after months of touring is tight as a drum and I wanna bang it like a gong. Lorene did an awesome job yet again, as we’ve fallen into a familiar rhythm with these. We enjoy it and we come back and do another and another and it feels great. Now this is number 6.

I wanted to shoot in the great city of Atlanta because it is my second home, where I actually spend the most time during the year in one place. My friends there are tremendous, and I miss them during the times when I am off on the road laying awake in hotel beds with my frenemy that gruesome bitch Insomnia. Ms. Insomnia = who I don’t want to be with. My friends from Atlanta = who I do want to be with. And you = who I want to get with. And you + my new DVD Cho Dependent = me happy.

-Margaret

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We made this video in the height of summer at Bonnaroo and it was a great pleasure. The bands were so gracious, especially GWAR, and I was so saddened to hear about the recent passing of Cory Smoot. It’s dedicated to him. I love GWAR, and I love everyone in this wild freak fest. The cameras overheated in the muggy, sweaty moments we were trying to capture for posterity, and everyone had taken small bandannas and scarves and dipped them in ice water and wore them around their necks so we all looked a little like warped boy scouts. This is my rock and roll life as it is and has been for what seems like a hundred years, ducking in between tour buses and makeshift dressing rooms and trailers and port-o-potties, stealing water and food items from demanding and undemanding tour riders, being starstruck and overwhelmed and then among family and then new friends. The entire crew, including Liam Sullivan, who directed this little masterpiece, and John Roberts, my dude – about 8 of us stayed in a tiny trailer all together. We let all the beds down and everyone actually slept at night. We were overtired from the heat and trying to film so much and so many and it was a lot of great performances and no time in between to get from band to band. Brendan Benson brought along the very newly born Declan, and so we were truly an all ages extravaganza. John kept joking that he was going to flip over the trailer with his vogue dancing, and we laughed so much that the whole thing was really rocking. It was parked directly on a lake of mud, and so to get in and out of the trailer meant to soak your feet at least partially. We kept our shoes outside like a proper asian family, although I am the only one that was actually asian. We saw so many things and we captured some of the most amazing scenes in rock yet. Thanks so much to everyone who helped out in this video. Enjoy……

Baby I’m with the Band – featuring Brendan Benson

Margaret Cho – Asian Adjacent – featuring Grant Lee Phillips from Margaret Cho on Vimeo.

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“Asian Adjacent” is from Margaret’s Grammy-nominated comedy music album, “Cho Dependent.”
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