Margaret Cho: I'm a lot like Taylor Swift

Margaret Cho is coming off her busiest year ever -- "Drop Dead Diva," "Dancing with the Stars," a new comi-music CD -- but it looks like she's been practicing super small penmanship in an attempt to keep adding more to an already jam-packed calendar. In addition to returning for another season of "DDD" and popping up on the third cycle of "RuPaul's Drag Race," Margaret is in the middle of The Cho Dependent Tour.

On November 5, the bus stops in NYC as Margaret participates in the sixth annual New York Comedy Festival. I caught up with my favorite comedian to find out what you can expect from her set, how she's feeling after being eliminated from "DWTS" and what's next on the agenda!

PopWrap: For those people who've never seen you live, what can they expect from the November 5 show?
Margaret Cho: It’s very funny, but it’s all about gay rights, living in the south, being a very progressive person and a very prominent member of the LGBT community yet living in a small town which is the capital of the Southern Tea Party movement. We’re not talking just Tea Partiers here, but Southern Tea Partiers. It’s soooo conservative, so it’s politically motivated, but I’ll also talk about “Dancing With The Stars,” immigration and my mom. There'll also be some songs and a couple of surprises. It’s a big extravaganza!

PW: I'm loving your CD, "Cho Dependent" -- you're kinda like Taylor Swift writing songs about all these exes!
Margaret: [laughs] I’m a lot like Taylor Swift. Although I did work with Kanye’s producers on the CD, so it would be a little strange.

PW: The night you were eliminated from "DWTS," the other "in danger" celebrity was Bristol Palin -- the irony of that couldn't have been lost on you.
Margaret: Not at all, she was teen abstinence versus me, gay pride -- which was simultaneously about the ending of gay teen suicide. And while the show made her all about that, I had to interject mine to tell them “we have to call an end to gay teen suicide.” So it really was these two issues going head to head. And I thought, mine is so much f***ing more important than yours [laughs]. You know?

PW: Absolutely. So were you like the Alexis & Crystal of "DWTS?"
Margaret: The odd thing is that I really like Bristol. Well, I guess that’s not so odd. I think she’s a great person and the fact that we don’t agree politically has nothing to do with us getting along. But I was disappointed to leave “DWTS” that night. I want to think it was because I didn’t dance that well, but ... I know that I did [laughs].

PW: It had to be a little disheartening to leave the night after you made that speech.
Margaret: My feeling is, if one gay kid saw that and felt better, making the decision to live, then I won.

PW: All in all, was "DWTS" a positive experience for you?
Margaret: I loved every aspect it. The show really challenged me to work harder on myself. It showed me how physically insecure I am. I had been in denial about my body insecurity forever. As a stand-up comic, I never have stage fright because I’m limitless when it comes to language, but as a dancer, I was very limited in terms of the dance language. It was very odd to me, but also a very nice discovery, so my next album will be a dance album.

PW: Oh, there's nothing your fans love more than a good dance CD.
Margaret: Yea, I’m totally going to work that. It’s going to be more Lady CaCa. To me, dancing and singing simultaneously is the ultimate – I just want the Madonna “Blonde Ambition” microphone. Bottom line.

PW: Which remaining dancer are you throwing your money behind?
Margaret: My favorite is Jennifer [Grey], she's above and beyond the best dancer out of everybody. She dances with her heart and soul, which is so beautiful to see. But she was in the bottom two weeks ago, so you never know.

PW: I know, I'm a little worried Bristol could win -- the judges are so much easier on her also.
Margaret: They judge on a curve. With Bristol, I think they’re judging her on growth and how out of her comfort zone she is. And she’s really been getting out of her comfort zone ... writhing on the floor in her underwear. And I wonder, what does this have to do with teen abstinence? Although, I have to say Sarah Palin was quite nice to me also. We never “met” but she kept waving at me. It was so surreal.

PW: Sarah probably thinks if she can win you over, nothing is impossible
Margaret: [laughs] True. They’re nice people – as long as they are there and not in the white house, I’m good. Now we need Christine O’Donnell on the next season.

PW: Oh, she'd have to dance to "Witchy Woman!"
Margaret: Only Stevie Nicks songs! [laughs]

PW: And then you'll back back on TV some time next year with season three of "Drop Dead Diva," which is very exciting.
Margaret: I know and we ended on such a cliffhanger – that cast doesn’t even know! We just barely get the scripts, it is a mystery to us also.

PW: What would you like to happen with Teri next season?
Margaret: Yea, I would love to do a stakeout! That would be fierce. Bring some Inspector Realness.

PW: That reminds me, when are you going to be on "RuPaul's Drag Race?!?"
Margaret: Well .. I think that question will be answered soon [laughs]! I love that show.

PW: And this comedy tour is sponsored by Logo, any chance we’ll get another Cho Show?
Margaret: I would love to reunite that cast. To me, that was one of the best jobs I ever had. It was with my true family so it would feel amazing to do something like that again.