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Margaret Smith, winner
of the 9th Annual American Comedy award for "Best
Stand-Up Comic - Female" in 1994, makes
dysfunctional family life the backbone of her act.
Dead pan delivery, blank-faced and funny sums up her
dark humor. She is a child out of six in a demented,
dysfunctional Middle American family. However, she
contends that all families are dysfunctional in some
way or another.
She then went away to college, and eventually needed
money. Since she was from Chicago, she tried to get
a job at Second City as would pay half of the
tuition for classes. Second City lasted
three-and-a-half years. Writing many of the sketches
for the group. She gravitated to New York City,
where she began her stand-up career.
MARGARET SMITH
Stand Up Comedian, Actor, Writer and Producer,
Margaret Smith does it all! A Six-time Emmy Award
winner, Margaret recently left her gig as a writer
and producer for the Ellen Degeneres Show to work on
her own projects. She is currently in negotiations
on a pilot she has developed.
She also recently
published her first book. A hilarious yet poignant,
partial memoir about becoming a single mother. It’s
titled, “What Was I Thinking”.
Additionally, she has
won the American Comedy Award for Best Female Stand
Up Comedian. She starred in her own special for
Comedy Central and has produced and starred in her
own independent projects. Her incredibly funny CD,
titled “As It Should Be” has a liner note on the
cover from Jay Leno. Jay writes, “, “The best
comedians are the ones that write and perform their
own material and Margaret Smith is at the top of
that list”,
She played the
standout record store owner in the hilarious, yet
short-lived, spin off of “That 70’s Show” aptly
titled “The 80’s Show”.
Her list of roles in
Television and Film include parts in Martin
Scorsese’s “Goodfellas”, the remake of “The Blob”,
the Wachowski brother’s hit thriller “Bound” with
Gina Gershon and Meg Tilly, and a guest starring
role in the Pamela Anderson series, “VIP”, to name a
few.
You may have also
seen one of her many performances on both The
Tonight Show with Jay Leno as well as Late Show with
David Letterman.
Margaret has toured
the comedy circuit doing live performances
throughout the United States and beyond including
Britain, Ireland and Australia, not to mention a
one-nighter in Tasmania. “Have you ever seen a
Tasmanian Devil? They’re so cute. You want to pet
them, ‘till they yawn.”
She’s worked with
everyone from Rosie O’Donnell to the late Bob Hope.
She says, “Phyllis Diller told me the dirtiest joke
I’ve ever heard,” and claims to have had an
emotional bottom on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
You might want to
keep your eyes open for Margaret during her summer
hiatus when she hits the road and tours. She may be
coming to a theater in your area.
