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Margaret Cho: Los Angeles
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Margaret Cho started performing stand-up at age 16 in a comedy club called The Rose & Thistle above a bookstore her parents ran. Soon after, she won a comedy contest where first prize was opening for Jerry Seinfeld. She moved to Los Angeles in the early '90s to pursue comedy and lived in a house with several other young performers. In her early twenties, Margaret hit the college circuit, where she immediately became the most booked act in the market and garnered a nomination for Campus Comedian of The Year.
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Korean-American comic Margaret Cho is as brazen as they come. Brassy, witty and flinging her personal life wide open, Cho rules the stage at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles and lets loose a revolutionary barrage on everything from Asian chicken salad, ex-boyfriends (and, sometimes, girlfriends) and sex shows in Thailand. Ever present are her usual riffs on her mother and extras such as the opening set from Bruce Daniels, trailers and more.
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Cho, the daughter of Korean immigrants, grew up in San Francisco's Haight district in the 1970s. Needless to say, her childhood was colorful and enlightening. She started performing stand-up comedy at age 16. Shortly thereafter, she won a comedy contest and the opportunity to open for Jerry Seinfeld. With her career taking off, Cho moved to Los Angeles and made the rounds on the talk-show circuit. A 1994 American Comedy Award for Best Comedian led to her own network show, CBS's All-American Girl.
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Cho's comedy career began at the young age of 16 when she started performing stand-up in a neighborhood comedy club called The Rose & Thistle. She knew the owner well, as the club was located above the bookstore her parents ran. Soon she won a comedy contest. First prize was opening for Jerry Seinfeld. The show gave her the break every aspiring comedian hopes for, and she moved to Los Angeles in the early 90s. There, she lived in a house with several other young performers, all chasing their dreams.
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"In Revolution, Margaret Cho returns to the screen with the same unbridled, no holds-barred humor that infused her previous films. With her signature style, Margaret tackles the axis of evil, her travels through Thailand's red light district, the explosion of child birth, bartering sex for household chores, Revolutionizing one's self-esteem, the joy of bodily functions, her loser ex-boyfriend, and of course, her now world-famous mother.
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The Sensuous Woman is a new burlesque, comedy and bellydance revue, hosted by and starring comedian Margaret Cho. Featuring an impressive lineup of the country's most renowned burlesque and bellydance performers, as well as hilarious stand-up and sketch comedy from both emerging and established artists, The Sensuous Woman has been playing monthly in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Featured performers include Los Angeles bellydance and burlesque sensation Princess Farhana, Miss Dirty Martini, emerging Trans comic Ian Harvie, the ingenious burlesque performer Selene Luna, comic actor Liam Sullivan as “Kelly,” and sketch comedians Diana Yanez and Kurt Hall, of the Gay Mafia Comedy Troupe of West Hollywood.
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