Just angry ramblings?

I saw "Assasins" three times (so I obviously liked it) but I understand how some people thing its just ranting and preaching to the choir. But I think she injects enough humor into it to make it more than worth your while. There's some great bits about a "pussy tornado", comparing Reagens funeral to Weekend at Bernies, and even my dearest Bjork. I agree with some criticisms that her politcal ramblings arent the most inspired but overall I thought it was pretty damn funny. My friend wishes she just stuck with sex jokes, but I think Cho has pretty much used every sex-related event in her life already so she had to move onto something new eventually. And this new stuff aint bad.

I just got done watching it and it did seem mostly angry, but that is most comedy these days, unfortunately. She was much better years ago when she did routines about her family and growing up. The world is just an angry place these days and comedy simply reflects that. My advice, go get yourself a Richard Pryor dvd of one of his 70's performances. Whenever I hear him on Sirius Radio (Raw Dog Comedy 104), I always laugh no matter how bad things are at the moment. That's the way Chapelle was, before his "meltdown".

Assassin is terrible! Unwitty political rants that we have all heard a million times from other people. I am a hardcore Cho fan, but this show just didn't have it. A lot of the material is outdated (runaway bride, terry shiavo). My friends and I (a bunch of gay men, and myself, a loyal cho fan and faghag) actually turned it off after a good 45 min to an hour because it was that boring. We laughed twice during that time period.

I know that this is an old thread, but I had to comment. I just saw this Cho presentation this past weekend and I have to say that I laughed MAYBE five times watching this show! I was extremely disappointed! Being a fan of her earlier work, I guess I assumed that this one would be even better given the theory that you get better with age :) Well, I was sadly mistaken and my boyfriend and I were bored out of our minds for 45 minutes (which is when I left the room to clean. I’d rather clean the house than watch! That's pretty bad).

I agree with others who've commented that she's put too much angry ramblings in here and it covers up any chance she has at being funny. And, it's not impossible to be funny and still be political...many comedians out there do it now, like Jon Stewart, Al Franken, and heck, even Sarah Silverman in her own way:) My biggest complaint with this new stand-up of hers is that weird repeating thing she seems to be doing now. In not one, but many of her jokes, she said one line like a zillion times, as if it were going to make it funny if she repeated it several times. All this accomplished was her standing on stage with her face frozen in an odd contortion, saying the same damn line many times, and not making me laugh at all :(

Overall, I'm very disappointed in the turn her comedy has taken...sad, given that she's very intelligent and has so much to say.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance -- Socrates

Assassin was one of the most important live performances I have ever had the pleasure of watching. I commend Margaret for her efforts of progressiveness and for battling homophobia and racism through her art.

I think the issue is that she's trying to do something different with this film. There always are a fair number of people who will tend to want an artist to do what they fell in love with her for doing. For a lot of people, that was "I'm the One that I Want," which is understandable--that film is a masterpiece. The problem is, she can't just do the same thing over and over for decades. She has to move on and develop as an artist.

Furthermore, in addition to being a brilliant comedian, Cho is a dedicated social activist, and she is furious about the political situation as it's been developing during the past decade. As some posters here have noted, she's not alone among comedians--and, in fact, a few of you have accused her of doing "imitative" or "derivative" work, but I don't think that's a fair assessment. There are, plain and simple, an awful lot of outraged people in this country who do not at all like the way the Bush Administration has been running things. Comedians/satirists have the time-honored role of giving voice to those kinds of feelings, revealing hypocrisy, and speaking truth to power. And, in fact, that's what a fair number of them--including Cho--are doing.

I think it's probably fair to say that some of her later work has been less "stand-up" in the traditional sense than righteously angry, take-no-prisoners political commentary by an incredibly talented and funny woman. It's not fair, though, to accuse anyone who is as outstandingly talented and disciplined a writer as Cho of "rambling." Her shows are, in fact, beautifully structured. And I don't agree that her later work is, therefore, inferior to her earlier work. It's just a different kind of performance.

Cho is just anrgy asian ranting for an hour
go back to serving me my tai chicken and eggrolls

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