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Margaret Cho Staff Pick
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There's a joke—most popularly told in Watchmen, but old even then—that's true of nearly all comedians to a certain extent, but particularly of Margaret Cho. In it, one man speaks of apparently incurable sadness to a doctor, who advises him to see the great clown Pagliacci; that that will cheer him up. The man replies, "But Doctor, I am Pagliacci." Some comedians prefer to keep things light in order to keep that pain at bay, but Cho has always—quite boldly—mined the most painful parts of her own life for extraordinary, exhilarating comedy. Her stand-up films—notably Notorious C.H.O., Assassin and I'm The One That I Want—are among the better examples of the genre, balancing stark, painful confessional with the political activism that has always been less parallel to and more intertwined with her comedy career, into all of which is woven a welcome strain of good old-fashioned silliness. That last, of course, should not be taken to mean "less important" than the other elements, or contradictory to the more serious elements. The whole point of comedy is to make people laugh. Cho's latest show, Mother, is her critically acclaimed look at motherhood within queer culture, that she personally describes as "probably my edgiest show to date." That's saying something, given the standard she's set. (Danny Bowes, City Weekly)
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