Comedian Margaret Cho reschedules Sands Bethlehem Event Center show for Nov. 17
From a press release:
Originally scheduled for Friday, Sept. 29, award-winning stand-up comedian, actress, singer/songwriter, and author Margaret Cho will now perform at the Sands Bethlehem Event Center on Friday, Nov. 17 at 8 p.m. due to a scheduling conflict.
Tickets, which are $25, $35, and $39.50, are on sale now and can be purchased at sandseventcenter.com, the Event Center box office (77 Sands Blvd., Bethlehem), ticketmaster.com, all Ticketmaster outlets, or by phone at 800-745-3000. Tickets purchased for the previous date will be honored on Nov. 17.
Beginning with her early days as an up-and-coming stand-up comedian in San Francisco, Margaret Cho has always been the agent provocateur of entertainment. Never one to shy away from any topic, there is literally nothing off-limits when it comes sharing her views on family, gay rights, politics, sexuality, bullying, and oh-so-much more. Her socially aware, no-holds-barred type of comedy has made her both a thought leader and a tolerant teacher for those with open minds and open hearts.
Cho could be called the “Queen of all Media,” having conquered the worlds of film, television, books, music, and theatre. Nominated for five Grammy Awards and one Emmy, her comedy tours are a constant sell-out both here and abroad. She’s had two shows debut off-Broadway (“I’m the One That I Want” and “The Sensuous Woman”), and her last stand-up, “psyCHO,” was filmed at the historic Gramercy Theatre in New York City.
The film and DVD releases of Cho’s comedy shows have broken records as well, with “I’m the One That I Want” still holding the title for “Most Money Grossed Per Print” for an independent film. Her other releases, which Cho fans collect and swap with zeal, include “Notorious C.H.O.” (2001), “Revolution” (2003), “Assassin” (2005), “Beautiful” (2009), “Cho Dependent” (2011), and “psyCHO” (2015). She has always been responsible for the distribution and sales of all her content via her own Clownery label, a move that was extremely forward-thinking when she made it in 1999.
Cho has also made an indelible mark in television, starting in 1994 with the trailblazing network comedy “All-American Girl.” This was followed by the first “reality sitcom,” “The Cho Show” on VH1, six seasons on the Lifetime series “Drop Dead Diva,” one season of TLC’s late night show “All About Sex,” a seat at the table as a special guest host of E!’s “Fashion Police,” and an Emmy nod for Outstanding Guest Actress for her hilarious turn as Kim Jong II on NBC’s “30 Rock.” She recently developed “Highland,” a dramedy for TNT about a woman fresh out of rehab who has to oversee her very needy, very dysfunctional Korean-American family.
Her music career has been equally as successful. The acclaim her Grammy-nominated “Cho Dependent” record received was earned, as she took both vocal and instrument lessons to make sure she could keep up with guest performers like Tegan & Sara, Grant Lee Phillips, and Fiona Apple. Her follow-up release, 2016’s “American Myth,” would go on to earn her another Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album. With songs such as “Fat Pussy,” “I Want to Kill My Rapist,” and “Anna Nicole,” “American Myth,” made with collaborator Garrison Starr, showcased Cho’s first efforts as a composer. She has described the album as a mixture of “Americana, Beatlemania, and ’90s riot grrrl.”
With so much success in her creative life, Cho has never turned away from causes that are important to her. She is incredibly active in anti-racism, anti-bullying, and gay rights campaigns and has been recognized for her unwavering dedication over the years with many accolades and awards, including the Victory Fund’s Leadership Award, the first-ever Best Comedy Performance Award at the 2007 Asian Excellence Awards, the First Amendment Award from the ACLU of Southern California, and the Intrepid Award from the National Organization for Women.
Earlier this year, Cho was named one of the “50 Best Stand-Up Comics” by Rolling Stone magazine, which called her “the sort of funny, sex-positive feminist and LGBT activist younger comics continue to look up to.” It’s no surprise then that she continues to innovate. Her upcoming tour, Fresh Off the Bloat, set to start this fall and continue into 2018, is all about the politics of disgust and what is disgusting about politics. In other words, classic Margaret Cho. As she says, “It’s meta. It’s magical. It’s me.”
