1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:02,312 [Music and applause] 2 00:00:07,502 --> 00:00:08,988 Oh, thank you so much. 3 00:00:08,988 --> 00:00:12,708 This is so exciting for me this evening, taping a television show and everything. 4 00:00:12,708 --> 00:00:13,999 It's always a thrill. 5 00:00:13,999 --> 00:00:15,210 I love doing TV. 6 00:00:15,210 --> 00:00:19,019 I was recently on a show called "Star Search", heard of it? 7 00:00:19,019 --> 00:00:20,699 [applause] 8 00:00:20,699 --> 00:00:22,529 But actually I wasn't on the real Star Search, 9 00:00:22,529 --> 00:00:25,278 I was on Star Search International. 10 00:00:25,278 --> 00:00:28,589 Because I'm so very international. 11 00:00:28,589 --> 00:00:33,024 They had a real problem with me because I look this way, but I talk this way. 12 00:00:33,024 --> 00:00:35,574 [laughter] 13 00:00:35,574 --> 00:00:38,154 That was like a problem and they're trying to be sensitive about it. 14 00:00:38,154 --> 00:00:41,910 They're like, "Margaret, we don't want you to take this the wrong way but 15 00:00:41,910 --> 00:00:45,071 could you be a little more, oh I don't know, Chinese"? 16 00:00:45,071 --> 00:00:47,595 [laughter] 17 00:00:47,595 --> 00:00:50,208 Well, actually I'm Korean. 18 00:00:50,208 --> 00:00:51,878 "Whatever." 19 00:00:51,878 --> 00:00:53,592 [laughter] 20 00:00:53,592 --> 00:00:57,155 I was supposed to go on this show and tell jokes, what was I supposed to do? 21 00:00:57,155 --> 00:01:08,359 Oh, my husband is so fat, that when he sit around the [unintelligible] 22 00:01:08,359 --> 00:01:10,448 he really sit around the [unintelligible]. 23 00:01:10,448 --> 00:01:11,598 [laughter] 24 00:01:11,598 --> 00:01:12,678 Gong. 25 00:01:12,678 --> 00:01:18,242 I don't go to church anymore, and my grandmother follows me around 26 00:01:18,242 --> 00:01:24,188 "Margaret, Margaret, how come you don't go to church?" 27 00:01:24,188 --> 00:01:29,636 "You have many friends at church." [snoring] 28 00:01:29,636 --> 00:01:32,160 [laughter] 29 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:39,605 [snoring] Bingo! 30 00:01:39,605 --> 00:01:43,586 [laughter and applause] 31 00:01:51,789 --> 00:01:56,810 My mother is convinced that everybody in show business does drugs. 32 00:01:56,810 --> 00:02:01,705 She's like, "Oh you cannot go to the club because they take the drugs." 33 00:02:01,705 --> 00:02:08,422 "Those people they take the cocaines and then they take the D, the D, the D." 34 00:02:08,422 --> 00:02:09,920 Mom, it's LSD. 35 00:02:09,920 --> 00:02:11,193 "How do you know that?" 36 00:02:11,193 --> 00:02:13,474 [laughter] 37 00:02:13,474 --> 00:02:16,938 My mother really wants me to get married but I don't know if that gonna happen soon. 38 00:02:16,938 --> 00:02:18,359 I have trouble with men. 39 00:02:18,359 --> 00:02:20,343 Do you ever go out with somebody and you like them so much, 40 00:02:20,343 --> 00:02:21,907 you like them so much, you like them so much, 41 00:02:21,907 --> 00:02:24,085 you like them so much, you like them so much, 42 00:02:24,085 --> 00:02:29,379 and then they do something, and then you don't like anymore? 43 00:02:29,379 --> 00:02:31,032 I went out with this guy recently. 44 00:02:31,032 --> 00:02:32,462 I liked him so much, I liked him so much, 45 00:02:32,462 --> 00:02:33,772 I like him so much, I like him so much, 46 00:02:33,772 --> 00:02:36,882 we went out and we went dancing and he started moon walking 47 00:02:36,882 --> 00:02:43,842 around me [audience laughs] and I didn't like him anymore. 48 00:02:43,842 --> 00:02:46,503 [laughter] 49 00:02:46,503 --> 00:02:48,839 I dated one guy who said that if I broke up with him that he would 50 00:02:48,839 --> 00:02:52,462 kill himself, and I broke up with him but he's not dead yet. 51 00:02:52,462 --> 00:02:54,772 [laughter] 52 00:02:54,772 --> 00:02:57,134 And I want to call him up and go, "You know, what's the deal?" 53 00:02:57,134 --> 00:03:00,615 [laughter] 54 00:03:00,615 --> 00:03:02,105 I thought we had a agreement. 55 00:03:02,105 --> 00:03:04,685 [laughter and applause] 56 00:03:07,450 --> 00:03:09,407 I love being her in Montreal, it's a beautiful city. 57 00:03:09,407 --> 00:03:12,527 I travel a lot, I like traveling but I get kind of nervous when I go 58 00:03:12,527 --> 00:03:16,165 to places where there aren't a lot of Asians like Alabama. 59 00:03:16,165 --> 00:03:18,692 [laughter] 60 00:03:18,692 --> 00:03:21,445 I was in Mobile Alabama, I was walking down the street and this man actually 61 00:03:21,445 --> 00:03:23,839 called me a "chink". 62 00:03:23,839 --> 00:03:28,407 I mean he actually called me a chink - I was so mad I just looked at him 63 00:03:28,407 --> 00:03:33,646 and I said, "Chink? I'm sorry Chinks are Chinese, I'm Korean, I'm a gook alright." 64 00:03:33,646 --> 00:03:35,819 [laughter] 65 00:03:35,819 --> 00:03:40,061 If you're going to be racist, at least learn the terminology. 66 00:03:40,061 --> 00:03:42,530 Get like a redneck to English dictionary. 67 00:03:42,530 --> 00:03:45,225 [laughter and applause] 68 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:56,280 I think that racism is the biggest disadvantage to being Asian in 69 00:03:56,280 --> 00:04:00,597 America but if I was to choose, I think the biggest advantage to being 70 00:04:00,597 --> 00:04:03,857 Asian in America is that if you're at an airport or a bar or something, 71 00:04:03,857 --> 00:04:06,406 and somebody comes up and talks to you, and you don't want to talk 72 00:04:06,406 --> 00:04:10,019 to them you can just pretend you don't speak English. 73 00:04:10,019 --> 00:04:12,715 "Oh no, I don't know." 74 00:04:12,715 --> 00:04:14,240 [laughter] 75 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:15,540 Thank you very much. 76 00:04:15,540 --> 00:04:16,977 [music and applause]