Margaret Cho - Notorious C.H.O.

Margaret Cho - Notorious C.H.O.
by Lorene Machado

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Actor: Margaret Cho
Director: Lorene Machado
Brand: Genius
Producer: Margaret Cho
Writer: Margaret Cho
Cinematographer: Kirk Miller
Editor: Lorene Machado
Producer: Lorene Machado
Producer: Andrea Cunningham
Producer: Karen Taussig
Producer: Ran Barker
Producer: Suzanne Ali
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Unknown
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-11-19
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Winstar

DVD Reviews of Margaret Cho - Notorious C.H.O.

DVD Review: Commentary by Mommy!
Summary: 4 Stars

I love Margaret Cho!! Great performance!! Almost as good as "I'm the One That I Want", but if you like Mommy, don't miss the Commentary track. The entire Commentary is done by Margaret's mother from her home.
About a third of the way through the doorbell rings and her 60-ish neighbor comes to return the casserole and Mommy invites her to stay. The Commentary continues and the doorbell rings again. This time a police officer comes and joins the Commentary.
Hey! This is the best Commentary feature I have heard!!

DVD Review: Her Parents Must Be So Proud
Summary: 5 Stars

Even before the release of NOTORIOUS C.H.O., Margaret Cho was a force to be reckoned with. And here in this highly recommended, 90-minute DVD, she delivers all the fun, shock and good-natured madness you'd expect from one of the bad girls of American comedy.

From the moment she said goodbye to staring in her own sitcom, Cho's quirky brand of humor has wreaked havoc in the minds of everyone who has ever heard her speak. A one-woman block party gone awry, Cho is hilarious, sweet, raunchy, insightful and charming all at the same time.

Though I must warn you that if you are easily offended or squeamish, this may not be the DVD for you, I also have to say that I am definitely squeamish -- and I still loved NOTORIOUS C.H.O. because it's funny, shocking and a strange love letter of sorts to her parents, who are interviewed at the beginning of the film.

I positively loved the chance to meet Cho's mother, who refers to herself as `Mommy.' Eccentric, protective, blunt and suspicious, Mommy is a proper looking Korean-born woman whose comments and observations will shock anyone. After hearing about her so often in Cho's earlier performances, it was great to see the innocent-looking face of one of comedy's legendary characters.

- Regina McMenamin

DVD Review: Notoriously Hilarious
Summary: 5 Stars

Out of all of Cho's currently released films, I found myself enjoying this one the most. I can't think of one moment on the entire DVD that was boring. It's notoriously delicious!

This performance is much more matured than her first, in every single way possible. If you are new to Cho's comedy, I would highly recommend trying this one out first.

DVD Review: Margaret Cho Notorious Cho
Summary: 5 Stars

Her verifications is excellent. Her use of the dactylic and ampabactic cutlets were fabulous and her iambic pentameter and polyrhythmic elutriation were incredibly examplatory .

DVD Review: Annoying and unfunny
Summary: 1 Stars

I am glad I rented this DVD. It actually is not even worth the rental price. It is that unfunny. I think her impressions are horribly annoying. She sounds bitter and evil rather goofy and funny. I would be surprised if a laugh track wasn't used. The camera never focused once on the audience. So who knows if they were really laughing. I think she is unattractive and that adds insult to injury. She think she is all that and a bowl of soy sauce but she isn't. Her only funny impression was when she was making fun of her asian parents. Other than that the best way to describe her unorignal comedy style is that it is comprised of generic and vulgar anecdotes that are more annoying to hear than funny. I think after her shows she is laughing at her audience back stage because she is managing to get away with telling awful jokes and stories and making it huge. She has the last laugh.

Description of Margaret Cho - Notorious C.H.O.

Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 06/19/2007 Run time: 95 minutes

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

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