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Margaret Cho - I'm the One That I Want
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780794201234
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0794201237
Label: Winstar
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Manufacturer: Winstar
MPN: 73146
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Winstar
Release Date: October 09, 2001
Running Time: 96 minutes
Studio: Winstar
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
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Editorial Review:
This concert film becomes gripping, moving, and triumphantly funny when Margaret Cho stops with the "fag-hag" jokes and gets real in recounting her ill-fated sitcom and its devastating effects on her mental and physical well-being. In the spirit of Richard Pryor talking about his infamous freebasing accident in Live on the Sunset Strip and Julia Sweeney discussing caring for her cancer-stricken brother in God Said, "HA!", Cho's account of her ill-conceived 1994 ABC sitcom All American Girl is victorious, a "you go, girl" call to empowerment. Her happiness at finding mainstream acceptance was short-lived when the network expressed concerns about her weight. A desperately insecure Cho proceeded to lose 30 pounds in a month and wound up in the hospital with kidney failure. Even more humiliating was the special consultant hired to instruct her how to appear "more Asian." Cho recalls receiving a phone call after the show's premiere from an enraged Quentin Tarantino, her then-boyfriend, who screamed at her, "They took your voice!" The capper was when her show was cancelled to make room for The Drew Carey Show ("Because he's so thin," Cho asides). Drink, drugs, and promiscuous sex followed, until Cho gave herself a wake-up call. "I'm not going to die because I failed as someone else," she proclaims. "I'm going to succeed as myself." This is the one Cho's legion of devoted fans want. More sensitive viewers are advised to fast-forward through the raunchier bits. --Donald Liebenson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Still her best show!
My partner and I have all four of her shows on DVD, and this is still our favorite. Why? Because though she digresses and takes time to channel various characters, all the elements are still unified by the thread of her own story. She's a pottymouth, but not as gratuitously as in her later shows, and the timing (or the editing) seems faster.
This is a great introduction to the magic of Margaret!
Rating:  - Finding Her Voice
I've seen snippets from Margaret Cho's other comedy routines, but this, her first, is the only one I've watched in its entirety (and more than once). You'd think I was afraid to watch the later ones--not because I'm easily offended or put-off--but simply because this show is so solid (laugh-out-loud funny, but also touchingly honest) that maybe I'm almost afraid I'll be disappointed in the follow-up films. Definitely something to work on in this new year.
It's not that this recorded ... Read More
Rating: - Hilarious! Touching.
One learns a lot about Cho from this DVD. While maintaining hilarity, Cho tells the story of her time as a child star, and her battle with weight disorders.
Very great, and a definite purchase for a Cho fan.
Rating: - Pretty funny, but a little too much info at times...
I like this film quite a bit. Normally, I don't get into standup comedy films, but I like Margaret Cho for the most part. She is usually very funny, and her audience is really having a good time here. Some of my favorite parts are where she impersonates her mother and that ABC hired an "Asian consultant" for her horrible sitcom. The mother bit is hilarious, and the ABC bit is hilarious as well as outrageous (maybe the folks at ABC didn't realise that Korea is considered part of Asia). I did object ... Read More
Rating: - Stick It In!, My Name is Gwen and I'm Here to ...Get a Driver's License.
Love, love, love, love, love Margaret Cho's I'm the One That I Want (and really all of her stand up films). It could be because she makes me want to laugh so hard that my body simply cannot facilitate the amount of laughter desperate to escape and I find myself on the verge of convulsions. Or it could be because she is one of the best social commentators of all time. It could be because she is so beautiful in every way and that she's an uninhibited, intelligent individual of a woman...or because she is ... Read More
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