Margaret Cho - Notorious C.H.O.

Product Description The pint-sized powderkeg lets loose on her emotional problems, sexual situations, trip to a swingers' club and encounter with a Valley Girl dominatrix and distills it into a hysterical live performance recorded in Seattle. Includes deleted scenes, an animated short and more. 2002/color/95 min/NR/fullscreen. Amazon.com Margaret Cho is an NC-17 woman in a PG-13 world. Very, very little can be quoted from this concert film, as can be expected from a woman who, in the film's empowering conclusion, sounds the rallying cry to live "without restraint." Leave it to Cho to reference September 11 with a joke that is at once profane and respectful. Like Richard Pryor, the Korean-American outlaw comedian has found her niche with concert films that allow her the freedom to be her "actual self." She riffs unabashedly about relationships gone sour and relates her experiences as a sexual Captain Kirk, boldly going where she has never gone before. Notorious, yes, but not as accessible for the uninitiated as her last concert film, I'm the One That I Want, which recounted the rise and fall of her ill-fated sitcom. The faithful, though, won't pass up the chance for a private audience with the diva of the disenfranchised. --Donald Liebenson