NOTORIOUS C.H.O.
"... brilliant, over-the-edge concert film 'Notorious C.H.O.' carries
candid sexual humor into previously uncharted territory...Not since
the heyday of Richard Pryor has a stand-up comic reached so deeply
into the confessional realm to exorcize lifelong feelings of alienation.
But where Mr. Pryor's humor is inflected with a hipster's sarcasm
and conveys the wild-eyed paranoia of a man still hunted down by demons,
Ms. Cho's seems to come to terms with those demons. She almost makes
it look easy. The liberation she invokes is finally a matter of willpower
tempered by what may be the ultimate gift, a sense of humor." --Stephen
Holden, The New York Times
"She begins, topically enough, with a preposterous account of 'giving
blowjobs to rescue workers' at ground zero; similar blue gags follow,
often with punchlines repeated up to three times, with diminishing
returns...She'd like to empower some us: 'For us to have self-esteem
is an act of revolution,' she says. Such banal sentiments ring false,
even pathetic. She needs us far more than we need her. --Ed Park,
The Village Voice
"If you like your language blue and your humor coarse, Margaret Cho
is for you ...Although Cho, a straight, gay-friendly female, milks
humor from her minority status, she finds the bulk of her gags in
the overly mystified realm of sex. Her funniest riff is one speculating
on what would happen if men got periods, but Cho also hits with jokes
about gay personal ads and G-spots." --Megan Turner, The New York
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