Margaret Cho’s LUCKY GIFT her first new music album in 8 years will be released on Valentine’s Day

There couldn’t be a better time than now to catch up with Margaret Cho currently touring the US on the 2025 leg of her Live and Livid tour that continues at North American theaters and clubs through May.  As we are still reeling from the news about the Convicted Felon moving  into The White House,  the silence from any opposition is deafening, and so so we need the fearless Cho to call it as it is. One (of the many things) we love about  her  is that she will so not pussy foot around about what should be said and done.  When it comes to who Oueerguru loves and worships (!) she is right up there.

Ms Cho recently told the NY Times .“People are excited to hear a take on what’s going on, to hear a progressive woman’s perspective, a queer woman’s perspective, an Asian American woman’s perspective.”  So very true.  She also announced that she is  turning to music and theater in the face of 2025 upheavals.  Thus this Valentines Day the five-time Grammy nominee for best comedy album will be celebrating her new musical release LUCKY GIFT.  Its actually been 8 years since her last music album and she told the LA Times  Some of these songs I recorded a long time ago and didn’t have the thought to release them. Then other songs were newer, and I realized they actually came together great as an album. My normal life is focused on being a stand-up comedian. That’s really what I do. And then on top of that I’m an actor as well. Music is a passion outside of any other kind of work. So music is something that I always do, but it’s more social and it’s relaxation. It’s like a form of therapy to write songs, as a way to make sense of the way that my life is going.

One of the tracks “Funny Man” it’s addressed to Robin Williams and she explained “I wanted to address that melancholy that comedians have, because comedy is a form of coping. Laughter and making jokes is a trauma response. It does make sense that people who have a highly evolved sense of humor do that, because they’re people who have been in pain.”

Another track is“You Can Be You”. about Nex Benedict, who was the nonbinary teenager who died. “It was a horrible situation that happened in Oklahoma. They were getting bullied at their school, and they were beat up. The government failed them, teachers failed them, the community failed them. And right now, we have a horrible situation where these trans, nonbinary and queer kids are under siege by our government, which makes no sense. The song is about talking to queer kids in this situation and urging them that they can be themselves, they should be themselves, and it’s OK to be themselves. It’s a responsibility for queer adults to try to reach out in whatever way that we can. For me, it’s going to be art. I do it in my comedy, but I thought it was effective in a song.  So that was my response to “What can we do to help younger people feel like they’re being understood and seen?”