Mr. Floppy Goes To Washington
March, 1988
it's no wonder that Margaret Smith, 33, is known as the Emily Dickinson of comedy. She looks frail, frazzled and deadly serious, even on stage at a comedy club, where she mumbles sorry-sounding punch lines about her alienated social life and her crackpot family, "lt's that time of the month again," she sighs. "The rent's due." Her romantic life is terrible--"I'm always attracted to men I can't have. My first love was the guy on the dime"--but her career is going gre...
