By MANUEL MENDOZA Almost 40 now, Ms. Cho was less strident, less out to shock for the sake of it, and more outwardly happy than in the past….She was most at home when engaging the body, especially from the angle of identity politics…Ms. Cho seemed more comfortable in her skin than ever.” GRAND PRAIRIE – […]
By Todd Camp “Some of the biggest laughs were unprintably raunchy (but none the less hysterical).” GRAND PRAIRIE — During her packed show Sunday night at Nokia Theatre, Margaret Cho proved that even preaching to the choir can produce beautiful music. Cho came through town on her Beautiful tour and addressed everything from body issues […]
By Scott Kearnan “The sex-capade, and a subsequent tangent on pop culture divas…went over well with the packed audience, who was hooting and hollering its collective approval. Her political jabs, peppered throughout the show, were among her best and the show one of her consistently funniest.” There’s a certain formula that comes with a Margaret […]
By Sean Davidson “…her latest tour, Beautiful, which on April 4 saw Cho return to the more honest and personal material that marked her earlier years….Cho seems to have re-embraced the best of what made her big in the first place.” The last time Margaret Cho made the rounds her act didn’t look so good […]
By Katie Johnston Chase “Cho laid her dirty comedy on thick at the Orpheum Saturday night, and the near-capacity crowd ate it up. Cho was larger than life on the video screen above her – all the better to see her masterful facial expressions. She can contort her eyes, her mouth, even her nose into […]
By Michael Lyle Margaret Cho is beautiful. At least that is what she told the audience, who welcomed her with a standing ovation at the Pearl inside the Palms on March 29. Of course, it wasn’t her beauty or lessons of being beautiful that captured the audience’s attention of a nearly sold-out theater. It was […]
By Malinda Lo “In a way, Beautiful is a return to I’m the One That I Want, the hit 1999 tour that marked her comeback from the failure of her sitcom, All-American Girl…..She made me uncomfortable, but she also got my attention. That’s why Margaret Cho is so necessary. The sharpest comedy shows you the […]
By JACKIE BERG “There are few comedians who can get away with what Cho easily captures. Her rough-around-the-edges attitude is adorably contrasted by her ability to relate to every audience member with ease.” “It’s Margaret, bitch!” Armed, dangerous and flanked by sleeve tattoos, Margaret Cho comes prepared for another battle of the C.H.O. Revolution at […]
By LEONARD JACOBS “Margaret Cho’s burlesque-cum-variety act is worth every hoot and catcall, not only for her zinger-filled standup, but for the freewheeling sexual demagoguery of the whole enterprise.” Sometimes ads go up online for writers to review porn films and websites, and you have to wonder what criteria one might use. “The camera work […]
By Trav S.D. One wondered how long it would take the burlesque revivalists to remember that the form is as much about comedians as exotic dancers. It may be a show-business first that, in her new variety show, The Sensuous Woman, Margaret Cho reveals herself to be both; she spins pasties and one-liners with equal […]
By MARILYN STASIO With “S-E-X” spelled out in 3-foot-high lights at the side of the stage of the fabulously funky Zipper Factory, there’s no need to wonder what “The Sensuous Woman” is about. Giddy, gaudy and quite gay, this raunchy variety show sparkles whenever headliner Margaret Cho is front and center, alternating her standup gab […]
