MARGARET CHO'S "BEAUTIFUL" TOUR CAPTURED ON DVD WILL BE RELEASED ON NOVEMBER 17, 2009

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In her fifth concert film, Beautiful, comedian Margaret Cho pulls back the veil on the myth of beauty, and exposes her audience to a raunchy and hilarious ride.

Learning to love her luscious self over the past forty years, comedian Margaret Cho realized that the eye of the beholder doesn’t hold all the power when it comes to beauty. Our tastes may be groomed by the media, but how we feel about how we look brings our self-image into focus.

Armed with something more potent than lip gloss — a mouth so shocking and raunchy it should be stamped with a warning – Cho toured America with her manifesto: “This show is really about how we should feel beautiful,” says Cho. “When you feel beautiful, you’re going to have more of a willingness to use your voice to speak.”

Shot at the Long Beach Terrace Theater, Cho’s latest stand-up concert film, Beautiful, explores the good, bad, and downright ugly in beauty, and the unattractive politicians and marketers who shape our world.

Reviews of "Beautiful"

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Cho laid her dirty comedy on thick at the Orpheum Saturday night, and the near-capacity crowd ate it up. Cho was larger than life on the video screen above her - all the better to see her masterful facial expressions. She can contort her eyes, her mouth, even her nose into the funniest positions, whether she's imitating her mother imitating Julia Child or
reenacting her horrified self..."
-- The Boston Globe

"...her latest tour, Beautiful, which on April 4 saw Cho return to the more honest and personal material that marked her earlier years....Cho seems to have re-embraced the best of what made her big in the first place."
--Eye Weekly/Toronto

"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."
--The Rebel Yell/Las Vegas

"In a way, Beautiful is a return to I'm the One That I Want, the hit 1999 tour that marked her comeback from the failure of her sitcom, All-American Girl.....She made me uncomfortable, but she also got my attention. That's why Margaret Cho is so necessary. The sharpest
comedy shows you the boundaries of your own tolerance, and pushes them.
--After Ellen

MARGARET CHO REVIEWS Photo credit: Phil Nee Click image for hi-res download “Margaret is comedy’s most fearless superhero.” Mary Kaye-Schilling, Entertainment Weekly “She makes Al Franken and Michael Moore look like Rush Limbaugh.” Kevin Nance, The Tennessean “Brilliant. Over the edge. One of the funniest comedians in America. I laughed until the tears were running down my face.” Stephen Holden, The New York Times “Outrageous! A one-woman comic army…with seemingly limitless wit at her command. She understands the power of humor to provoke thought and to liberate.” Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times “Grade: A- …gleefully, blasphemously invasive.” Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly “Honest and raunchy enough to make even Richard Pryor blush.” Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune “…the patron saint of anyone who has ever felt like an outsider.” The Washington Post “…I can say without reservation that Cho’s “Notorious C.H.O.” is the best comedy concert movie I’ve seen since Cho’s previous concert comedy film, “I’m The One That I Want,” in 2000.” Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press “the Richard Pryor of her generation.” Sacramento Bee “Exhilirates while it has you guffawing non-stop.” Brandon Judell, Detour Magazine “It’s humor with a message (love yourself as you are) that doesn’t forget to be funny.” Curt Fields, The Washington Post

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For more information, please contact Ken Phillips at The Ken Phillips Group (323.845.9997) or via e-mail (kpgroup@yahoo.com) or log on to Margaret Cho's official web site at www.margaretcho.com.