Name: Atsuko Okatsuka - Why She's "Father" In Her New Special | The Daily Show
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Queen of comedy and queen of fashion, always bringing it.

I feel like I'm giving a little Ronald McDonald today.

Wow, that's our, you know, that's our MO, make a girl.

And you say it came because your fans call you mother, but you identify more as father.

Is that because you're not a fan of unpaid labor?

Desi, you know, now that I'm in father's position, I'm not.

I mean, because, well, I mean, fathers do less and I wasn't aware of that.

Maybe I'm like, yeah, yeah, you keep laboring.

You talk in your special about how your husband does all the laundry.

It was a devastating day when we found that out.

We weren't, it wasn't, we weren't trying to do it that way.

By the way, like I wasn't trying not to do the laundry.

I truly did not know I hadn't been contributing for seven years.

Like we were both, I asked him, I was like, hey, which setting is the best?

When I went to try to do laundry and that's when he was like, wait, wait, hold on.

Have you not been doing the laundry this whole time?

So it was, you know, it wasn't on purpose.

And I will tell you, I have always identified more with the father side of parenting.

I always say, if the world could look at me like a working dad, I'm an excellent father.

One of the things that I appreciate so much about it, there's this, it's so beautiful and colorful between the fashion that you're wearing and the set decoration.

You tell these really deeply emotional stories.

Was it fun for you to get to play with that juxtaposition?

Yeah, I mean, you know, comedians, we have also like, we have a duality, right?

Like to get to levity, there was sadness, you know?

And so, yeah, I wear bright colors and things like that.

It's like, you know, it's a sunflower, you know?

I realized like, you know, you don't see actually for most of the day.

And it's kind of what I wanna, that's why I got into performing too, you know?

And so, yeah, yeah, it's definitely a duality that exists, you know, for a reason, yeah.

You're a total open book about your family dynamic.

You talk about your grandmother kidnapping you as a child.

You talk about your mother's mental health struggles.

You talk about being an undocumented immigrant in LA as a child.

Just super, super laid back, just normal.

Like a real easy read, if it were a book, you know?

Did you, was it hard to have those conversations with your family about being that open?

Well, you know, they, not that they owe it to me, but.

When you put it out like that, I've told my family,

I said, look, undocumented, we lived in a garage for seven years in hiding.

I said, if you wanted to be, if you wanted me to be a comedian, you.

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