Her last tour in 2003 featured a shot of a beret-wearing, black-clad Cho and the words: "Cho Revolution." Children of the '60s easily recognized it as a combination of two Che Guevara posters that adorned countless college dorm rooms.

Cho is back with a new show at the Temple Buell Theater on Thursday - and a new poster.

This one is a takeoff on Patty Hearst in the infamous "Tanya" photograph, which depicted the kidnapped newspaper heiress holding a rifle in front of a Symbionese Liberation Army banner.

Cho, however, holds a microphone. The poster bears the legend, "Margaret Cho, The Assassin Tour."

"I just like the image of Patty Hearst so much," Cho said in a recent interview. "So I thought aesthetically I wanted to go for that kind of Tanya image. I kind of put the show together around that. And it just seemed like the right title for that image.

"The show is less about any kind of assassination - well, I guess it's assassinating ideas that I don't believe in, things like homophobia and racism and sexism," she said. "So those are things that I target."

For years, Cho's material has been provocative - and not just for its political slant. She also has freely mined her sexual experimentation.

This time out, Cho said her show is weighted more toward looking at U.S. and world affairs.

"Those issues are larger than anything that I am doing about my own experiences," she said.

Her experiences, of course, do play a role. It's just that this time out her routine draws on how she refracts the political in her life, rather than the sexual.

"A lot of that is about gay marriage, and the political details and political journey I have taken working through these past couple of years as an activist on that issue," she said.

Cho also touches on Martha Stewart, the Iraq war, the Christian right and President Bush's stance on abortion. Dissecting current events demands that Cho rework the show as new issues and events make headlines.

"It's something I enjoy because it keeps it interesting for me," Cho said.

A long-time advocate for gay rights, Cho focused her activism on gay marriage since marrying artist Alan Ridenour two years ago. "Because I am so incredibly happy to be married, I honestly think this should be a right for everybody," she said.

Comedian Bruce Daniels opens for Cho on The Assassin Tour, as he did on her last tour.

The two also star in "Bam Bam and Celeste," a just-wrapped film, which Cho wrote and produced.

"It's this great fairy tale about these two kids who finally get the courage to leave their hometown," she said. "It's a buddy movie, a-coming-of-age movie. It is like a fag and a fag-hag 'Dumb and Dumber."'

No release date has been set for the movie, but some of us can't wait to see the poster.