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Saturday, March 21, 2009

Margaret Cho

Margaret Cho's hilarious, self-deprecating stand-up comedy quickly earned her a cult following as a kind of Korean-American Woody Allen or Richard Pryor in 1990s. A TV sitcom followed in 1994 on Fox, but the network's suits watered down most of her ethnicity humor, which defeated the purpose and the show - it bombed after only five months. Her fall from grace hit her hard, but she eventually came back fighting with 'I'm the One That I Want,' an uplifting and hilarious autobiographical comedy tale about defeat and redemption. Catch this final live performance of the show which is being turned into a feature film.

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