One group who won't be at Margaret Cho's show Saturday at the Carnegie Music Hall in Homestead: Miley Cyrus fans.

Of course, most of the singer's tweener fan base are too young for Cho's raunchy stand-up. The Korean-American comic dishes with caustic hilarity on her bisexuality, race and her travails in show business.

But Cho evidently is on their radar now. After Cho denounced Cyrus for allegedly mocking Asians in a photo, some Cyrus fans defended their idol a little too ardently.

"I'm getting death threats from 12-year-old kids because they really love Miley Cyrus," Cho says.

If anything, that will only motivate the contrarian comic to turn up the volume. She reportedly has written a song about Cyrus and the controversy. A rabid punk-rock fan whose favorites include the Hives and Broken Social Scene, Cho often breaks out her electric guitar during her stand-up routine.

"I'm writing a lot of new things," she says. "I'm writing comedy songs. That's a big part of it. I play guitar, so there's a lot of that. I'm kind of becoming a guitar comic, which is fun."

Cho grew up in San Francisco and spent part of her childhood in her parents' native Korea. By the time she was 16, she was performing stand-up comedy. She developed her aggressive stage persona out of the need to be forceful, she says.

Cho is giving television another try. She'll appear in "Drop Dead Diva," a comedy drama on the Lifetime Channel. She also has a concert film, "Margaret's Beautiful," set for release this year.

In 1994, she had her own sitcom, the ill-fated "All American Girl." The show's producers considered her character to be too Asian one moment and then not Asian enough the next. She landed in the hospital with kidney failure after trying to lose weight for the role.

She talked about that experience in her 2000 one-woman show, "I'm the One That I Want."

"I noticed that most comedians are pretty shy people," she says. "We all try to find a way to make our voices heard. For me, because it was when I was so young when I started, I just had to be very, very outrageous to get attention."

That certainly hasn't changed. Cho, who says she has an open marriage with her husband, artist Al Ridenour, talks frankly about her bisexual affairs.

"I'm not curious," she says. "I know."