The Notorious Cho is…
The most hilarious movie - the most hilarious thing - on planet Earth. - The Bergen Record
Gut-bustingly funny. - Variety
Surely every one of Cho's blow jobs is a blow for freedom. - Toronto Eye
Whether you love her or hate her, Margaret Cho is a comedic genius. She faces the challenges of her upbringing and heritage with an alternately ribald and sensitive touch. Notorious C.H.O., Margaret Cho’s hilarious follow-up to her hit comedy "I’m the One That I Want.”
Filmed live in Seattle and directed by Lorene Machado, the movie captures Cho’s boisterously entertaining one-woman show, which just completed a wildly successful tour to thirty-seven cities throughout North America.
A brilliant, taboo-busting comedy, the Notorious C.H.O. was inspired by the ladies of rap music, like Li’l Kim or Eve, particularly their wonderfully lustful and bawdy expressions of strength and sexuality through their images. Like those women, Margaret Cho has a dash of that "Queen Bee" and "Pit Bull in a Skirt" vibe. Her raw material has a decidedly female spin on machismo, tough as the perfectly manicured nails of her counterparts.
Margaret’s previous show, the 1999 off-Broadway hit, "I’m The One That I Want," dealt with her former bouts with drug and alcohol addiction. It also faced her external pressures to conform to body standards in television (most poignantly during her short-lived ABC sitcom "All-American Girl" in 1995). "I’m The One That I Want" was later released as a phenomenally successful movie, and it is now out on video and DVD through Wellspring, and the best-selling book version is out in paperback from Ballantine Books.
(Information taken from http://www.notoriouschomovie.com/)