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While I wasn't dying laughing throughout her entire performance, her true life experiences about her sitcom TV show and mother were well told and delivered. Like a good storyteller, she kept me following along through the sections that were meant to be more sincere than humorous. There were of course definitely moments when I could not help but laugh wildly out loud.

90% of her material is either gay- or Asian-based, so you may not be able to fully-appreciate the dead-on, true-to-life anecdotes and impressions if you've been living a sheltered life. Some may feel uncomfortable with the heavy emphasis on these topics, but Margaret tells it the way that only someone who grew up in a predominantly-gay neighborhood with Asian parents could tell it. Her facial expressions are priceless. Overall, this is the best Margaret Cho performance I've seen on video (actually film). I only rented this DVD, and I'd recommend watching it once just for the experience. This particular film is even used in colleges and universities in women's and cultural studies classes.

So THAT'S Where She Went!
Like most Americans, I never heard of Margaret Cho until her ill-starred sitcom appeared in 1996. I remember at the time thinking that she herself was funny, but that the show, featuring the first Asian-American family on network, thought it could just coast by on being Korean. Wrong answer. I was sorry, but not surprised, when the show disappeared from the face of the earth.

Now we know why. This concert, more a one-woman show than a stand-up routine, details her relationship with her immigrant mother, the men she's loved, and her "fag-hag" history before spending the bulk of its time on how she got her show, how it went, and how and why it failed.

The content is blue in the extreme, and she's frank about her sexual experience. She doesn't dilly-dally or waste your time in telling you what she thinks you need to know, but she takes her time in telling the story the way she wants to tell it. If that means taking ten minutes aside to make fun of her immigrant mother, you just have to wait. But don't worry, you'll be amused in the meantime.

Cho exposes the brutality of the entertainment industry and how it chewed her up as grist for the mill, yet instead of feeling sorry for her at the end, you cheer her perseverance. She's a hero for the media age, someone who's better off having left than being trapped in the system. More than just a funny person, she's a post-modern Frank McCourt, using her life story to reveal to us how we can refuse to participate and still come out alive in the end.

Margaret Cho someone we can all admire. Oh, and she's funny as hell, too.

Decent material before she really finds her voice
I saw Notorious C.H.O. before I saw this, and I have to say that her most recent work is a lot better than this, which was recorded in 2000. This one is fairly funny, but seems like a less passionate performance than her "Notorious" performance, which is brilliant in it's topics, her voices, and her FACES!!! Her faces are priceless. This is decent stuff, but if you want to see Margaret shine, get Notorious C.H.O. intstead, where she is much more confident and much funnier...