Comedian Margaret Cho is waiting for the punchline.
Ashton Kutcher is going to jump out and exclaim, “You’re being punked.”
That’s the only way Cho can explain billionaire Donald Trump’s front-runner standing in the GOP presidential race.
“This has got to be a joke or a very, very long teaser for his new reality show ‘Presidential Apprentice,’” she added. “You know it’s like, ‘You’re impeached!’ That’s what I’m thinking.”
It’s all fodder and foil for Cho’s “Psycho Tour,” coming to the Rialto Theatre on Sunday, Oct. 18. Through the lens of her take-no-prisoners comedy, Cho gets a chance to express her “rage reaction” to all the insanity she sees going on in today’s world.
“I feel like that’s the only thing that will solve anything is if we would get as angry as we should be,” she said.
And the 46-year-old San Francisco comedian said we should be plenty angry. Here are a few of things that are boiling her blood:
- Donald Trump:
- “ He’s utilizing sexism and racism but only as it applies to Latinos, I guess. It would be one thing if he attacked everyone, but he really sort of is only going for women’s appearance and stereotypes about Latinos. Not even real stereotypes. … They are paranoid delusions. . There’s no actual debatable facts he’s presenting. He has no business attacking people’s appearance because he’s not going to win there.”
- Defunding Planned Parenthood:
- “They are treating it as some sort of wrestling match. … (Trump) is a danger to women especially. It is really a nightmare but also a joke. I think he’s a smokescreen to distract us from the fact that Republicans are going to defund Planned Parenthood, and that is the worst offense. That is almost as bad as reversing Roe v. Wade. You are literally taking women’s bodies away from them. That’s the thing that I wish the press would focus on.”
- Rape accusations and Bill Cosby:
- “I will never forgive Bill Cosby. … Rape for me is an unforgiveable act. It is something that can never be returned. You can never access that part of you, the innocence. The trust.”
(During her show Cho recounts her own experiences. She has said she was raped several times when she was younger. “I think by coming forward we can eradicate a lot of that suffering,” she said.)
Cho’s show Sunday will include a sing-along to her song “I Want to Kill My Rapist.”
“It’s an anthem to everyone who has been victimized and had so much stolen from us by rape, by molestation,” she said. “People sing along and come up afterwards and share their stories.”
And there may be a wedding on stage. Cho, who is licensed to preside over weddings, is hoping to marry one gay couple in every city she plays. It’s not known if she had recruited a Tucson couple, although as of mid-September, she was still looking.
