Rebel Yell
Margaret Cho entertains, shocks at Palms
By Michael Lyle
Published March 31, 2008
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Margaret Cho is beautiful.
At least that is what she told the audience, who
welcomed her with a standing ovation at the Pearl inside the Palms
on March 29.
Of course, it wasn't her beauty or lessons of being
beautiful that captured the audience's attention of a nearly sold-out
theater. It was her comical anecdotes on political issues such as
Iraq, sex scandals, prostitution and immigration that induced the
entire laugh-filled evening.
For example, Cho had a simple solution for ending
the war in Iraq.
"We should just send Lindsay Lohan to Iraq and
bring the troops home," Cho said as her answer to end the war. "Tell
[Lohan] they have cocaine."
As a person engaged in the political
realm, Cho has taken great amusement in the amount of sex scandals
that have swept the nation.
One scandal in particular that lead
to many jokes, was of Sen. Larry Craig.
The audience was entertained
as she connected the dots between the fact that the politicians
who are the most against gay marriage and gay rights are the first
to "stick his dick in the glory hole."
"He is like Oliver saying
'please sir, can I have some more,'" Cho said. "He is a sorry queen
without a piano bar."
As a self-proclaimed "lifetime fag-hag" Cho
also enlightened the audience on how she became a fag hag and her
own sexuality.
"I'm not bi. I'm I," Cho said as she told the audience
she is interested in anybody who wants her as well.
The audience
was later appalled to hear the reason why she "compliments herself
daily" and talks about beauty was because of a talk show host who
asked her, "what would you do if you woke up one morning and you
were beautiful?"
The audience thought Cho was beautiful, shouting
it along with "we love you" through out the night.
Performing on
the same stage Britney Spears "danced" on for the MTV music awards
in September 2007, Cho decided to give a more energetic impersonation
of Spears' routine as she opened the show.
But it was made clear
to the audience that Cho thinks Spears is beautiful as well, and
was upset that people called her fat.
"High out of her mind, yes,"
Cho said. "But not fat."
The audience stood again with applause
as she sung a farewell song on oral sex.
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