The Beautiful Tour marks the first time Cho’s opening act has his own cult following. L.A. sketch comic Liam Sullivan is a bona fide Internet star via his YouTube and iTunes videos featuring his alter ego, Kelly.

“Kelly’s kind of a mix of all kinds of women I’ve known over the years,” says Sullivan on the phone from L.A. “She started out with a voice. I started telling people to shut up in the voice, and it sounded funny. But she didn’t work without the look. An ex-girlfriend of mine let me borrow her wig. I gave Kelly striped tights. I didn’t want to look like a man in a wig. I wanted to look like a teenage girl as best as I could.”

Yes, you heard that right. Ex-girlfriend. He’s straight.

“Man, if I were gay, touring with Margaret would be the best life,” he jokes. “But I’m a comedian. I happen to have this sensibility. I think it was hard-wired into me. I’m going to do with it what I should.”

Sullivan says our own Kids in the Hall were a defining influence on his comedy.

“They were so different than anything I’d seen before, doing all the characters, breaking down that fourth wall, doing monologues, little films and live sketch.”

Sullivan has plans to expand his act, both online and on TV.

“I’d love to do a TV show where they let me do what I wanted,” he says. “I don’t know if I can get that kind of deal. I think you need clout to get that.”

In the meantime, there’s the tour. Some audiences are showing up in Kelly costumes.

“And it’s not just girls or gay men!” he says. “A couple of weeks ago there was a guy with his girlfriend, and he was dressed up as Kelly.

That was amazing.”