Margaret Cho's movie is extremely funny. It's also an occasionally uncomfortable viewing experience. She clearly has a major talent for stand-up comedy which allows her to ultimately triumph over some bad material. The one woman show which has been filmed primarily relates the story of her experience having a primetime network television series built around her stand-up act. Cho, who was in her early twenties at the time, was the first Asian performer to star in a network television series. She wasn't prepared for TV executives pressuring her to lose weight or their complaining that her show wasn't Asian enough or later that it was too Asian. She had to endure rude comments about her weight and racial slurs. The show was soon cancelled. Aside from brilliantly amusing people with her comedic skills, observations, and impressions of Asian stereotypes including her representation of her mother, she has a serious message about the racism and the images of female beauty that prevail in Hollywood and the rest of the country. It will be hard for most people to have the sympathy Cho feels she deserves for the indignities she's suffered because of the way she looks. It's hard to accept that someone as observant and smart as Cho was blind to the obstacles she would face pursuing a television and film career. That said, I did laugh out loud during this movie more than I have at any other in recent memory.
