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Originally posted by purse junkie
Elayne Boosler was also hilarious and take-no-prisoners. Where the hell is she?
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Originally posted by robustpuppy
What about Margaret Cho?
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She definitely falls into my overrated comic category. You know who's really funny? Margaret Cho's mom. After all, her mom is the one with the funny heavy Korean accent, and the bookstore with a gay clientele, and a different view of the world. Margaret Cho's
mom should have a show on ABC.
What really bugs me about Margaret Cho is that she seems to be
trying to cultivate a cult of personality. I think it's great that she supports LGBT issues, and that she's not a size 6 (or a size 10 for that matter), and that she's a woman of color in a profession that doesn't have many, but job 1 is to make me laugh. That's also job 2 and 3. In her one-woman shows, she gets a little too preachy and motivational-speaker for my taste. All of the people who go to comedy shows to be "empowered" should be diverted accidentally to a Richard Belzer show the day after Richard gets dropped by Law & Order: SVU and gets an audit notice from the IRS. (Belzer was notorious for being rEdiculously cruel to hecklers and others in the audience.)
FWIW, I also like Wendy Liebman, master of the throwaway line. She's very funny.
"I'm old fashioned. I like it when the man pays....for sex."
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