Yup. Once I get my site going again, the gravy train ends.

Looked at the pictures at the linked review.

Hmmm.

Yep, guess I'd hit it.

Does that make me a bad person ?

Awwwww, innit cute how she's dressed up like SLA-brainwashed Patty Hearst on the cover?

Remember, kids, terrorism is chic.

Now, Ace, as a gay man, you know that Cho WAS funny.

Kidding...

I seem to be the only guy who can't access my own frickin' site. Criminy...

My site's down too. There's been a DoS attack on the hosting service I use. DoS attackers must die, preferably by being drawn and quartered.

We will assume that everyone's "you should move your blog to the service WE use, it's the cheapest and never has suffered a DoS attack or gone down for any reason whatsoever!" comments have already been made.

I don't think comedy is paying off for Cho. I think that's the only thing that can explain why she's become a starving artist.

Oh and Ace, you site is really slow. You getting DOSed again?

I think it's one of the sites he links to in his sidebar. Hostmatters (a server lots of blogs are on, including mine) is offline while they isolate a server that's been DoS'd. They have an emergency forum, if anyone is interested.

Now, Ace, as a gay man, you know that Cho WAS funny.

Margaret Cho was a gay man?

To paraphrase Dean Wormer: Fat, unfunny, and stupid is no way to go through life. (OK, she's not fat anymore, but two out of three ain't bad.)

Holy crap! That is a LOT of weight loss in a little while. In fact, I didn't know it was possible to lose so much so fast. Wasn't that Madison Square Garden performance not all that long ago? Backstory...?

I love that little sop to the moonbats in the audience ("I can't endure more than about 10 minutes of Rush Limbaugh's pontificating before I have to change the station") as if Cho and Rush were at all similar.

Like him or not, Limbaugh isn't a rhetorically-stunted, logically sloppy America-hating, no-talent hag-wench.

But hey, whatever lets the guy sleep at night, more power to him.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

He's probably right that Cho's new act isn't funny, but this line:

In the end, it all feels too mean-spirited to be humorous.

As for Cho, her first concert film had a few moments that were hilarious, mostly the sex jokes about the gay guys she hangs out with. I have a co-worker who went to see her perform a couple months ago and told me, "I'm not crazy about her sex jokes, but I like her political and racial stuff." I told her that I felt pretty much the exact opposite way about Cho.

"I'm not crazy about her sex jokes, but I like her political and racial stuff."

Heh. You know what I like about Cho? Her pauses, moments of silence, and exits.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

She used to have some good stuff, but it was all premised on her imitation of her mother, a kinda old-world, heavily accented little old asain lady - the joke rarely in what she said, more in her over-the-top stereotype delivery. Ok to laugh at cause it came from her, but would've got a non-asian crucified.

Now it seems she's going for the approval/recognition laugh from politically like minded people - comic hackville. Next stop, 'Didn't-you-used-to-be-someonetown'

Reminds me of the 2nd time I saw Louis Black perform. The first time was at a small comedy club, and the guy just killed. I thought it was one of the funniest acts I'd ever seen.

The 2nd time was shortly after the 2004 election, and the man was so pissed off about his guy losing that his entire act was based around Republican and Christian bashing. My friend and I left before it was even over. It was so bad that not even the lefties were laughing, but instead simply applauding their approval of his politics.

Nothing like a New York Jew telling us rubes in the heartland what we really think and believe. Can you imagine if the roles were reversed and a Christian comedian from Columbus, Ohio sat up on stage and generalized about the Jewish faith? I don't think it'd go over so well. In fact, I'm quite sure Mr. Black would charge antisemitism.

No, seriously. Would anyone else hit it ?

Anyone ?

Aw, c'mon, I can't be the only one here.

That is, if she wouldn't freak out after she finds out I'm a Bush voter and all.

I suppose I could bring along a couple cases of Twinkies.

That would keep her around for a while, might even get the ol' motor revving for her right there.

...and if she still can't get past my Bush voter-ness, I bet all those Twinkies will distract her long enough for me to finish my business.

That's my plan anyway.

Dude, you need serious help.

Plus, you're going to need something stronger. Like Boston Creme Rolls or Swiss Cakes.

And some clothespins to hold up the extra skin flopping around her gut.

lauraw, I think you're mixing Cho up with a Kalahari Bushman. You're right about the need for clothespins, though.

I used to date a San chick from the Kalahari once.

It was great for a while, but after the romance wore off, she would get going at me full speed in the click language, and she sounded like Flipper.

From the review: "This kind of "shock comedy" often does not play well when recorded. "

I don't know. Seemed to work for Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy. Course, they were comedians.

I get so tired of these twits who like to think they're politically neutral. He recites the mantra:

I'm neither a liberal nor a conservative

But earlier, he admits:

Even those who agree with every one of Cho's positions (and I agree more often than I disagree)...

OK, so if you agree with a lefty moonbat like Cho more than you disagree, that MAKES YOU A FREAKIN LIBERAL, DOESN'T IT??

I mean, c'mon people, this isn't rocket science.

And no, I wouldn't hit it. Thank you for asking.

Dude's a dern good movie reviewer, though. Best on the web, IMHO.

Berardinelli is a great reviewer, but Ace missed the key review of Assassin. The Village Voice is on f-ing fire:

Bisexual Korean American comedian Margaret Cho continues to damage the struggle of bisexual Korean American comedians fighting for the right to be gay and funny, gay married and funny, or straight, funny, and just a li'l bit gay, primarily by being mostly unfunny. Assassin is the listless signature on her career-long comedic suicide note. The Notorious one sure is a fierce competitor, though. Endurance? Commitment? Please, homegirl makes Lance Armstrong look like a pussy. LIVESTRONG? Try standing in front of a crowd for 80 minutes with her material and we'll see who deserves their own rubber bracelet.

Am I the only person who cannot tolerate this woman's comedy bits? I feel like this woman would be more suited for rambling on at the dinner table then on stage claiming to be a comedian. Ellen is a comedian. Steve Martin is a comedian. 80 minutes of Cho?,..please hand me a good book and a stiff drink cause this is going to be painful.
-and no, I'm not a republican. If I wan't to hear someones opinions, that's fine and dandy- but dont disguise it with half a**ed comedy.