Margaret Cho: Assassin

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Margaret Cho: Assassin

2005

1h 25m

Documentary

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Filmmaker Kerry Asmussen captures the comedian performing her stand-up routine.

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Margaret Cho: Assassin finds the comedian playing to her base with a set full of would-be provocations that amount to disappointingly little in the way of laughs.

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J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

07/13/2022

...like most stand-ups who decide to go political, her observations are so banal this seldom rises...

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Janice Page

Boston Globe

09/16/2005

2.5/4

Pointed sociopolitical commentary that's thoughtful and impassioned, if not always hilarious.

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Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

09/07/2005

B-

Anger is the gasoline of stand-up comedians, the fuel that gets them revved. But just as too much gas will flood a carburetor, an overdose of anger can stall a comic's inspiration.

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David Lamble

Bay Area Reporter

05/09/2020

Cho is back, with her claws out, for 85 laugh-out-loud minutes...

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MaryAnn Johanson

Flick Filosopher

11/17/2005

We're told she's 'controversial,' but honestly, all she does is lob obvious cheap shots that do nothing but sanction her audience's status quo. Where's the controversy in that?

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Eric D. Snider

EricDSnider.com

10/20/2005

C

You know, the surest way to stop being considered 'edgy' is to brag constantly about how edgy you are. Get over yourself and get back to writing good jokes.

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03/26/2014

my least favorite of her 5 films still funny funny though

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07/09/2011

As usual, laugh out loud funny. Miss Cho at her best.

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03/07/2011

I think she's great, but this one wasn't the funniest. Still good, but not "ROTFL" (as the kids say). Die-hards will adore it, of course, but for the casual fan, it didn't blow me away.

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11/25/2009

Not her best but clever and better than an average stand-up

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09/07/2009

Not her best work but still entertaining.

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07/06/2009

This is my least favorite Cho stand-up to date. For one, her monologue used to rely on yelling at the Hollywood mucky mucks for trying to make her conform to an unattainable aesthetic standard. Now that she's actually skinny, those humorous vignettes have been excised from her repertoire. It's too bad, because some of that material is hilarious. Also, she spends too much time railing against the Bush administration. These jokes are way too easy, and therefore not as funny as her usual stuff. Lastly, she's using a different on-stage voice now, like she's channeling a black cross-dresser when she speaks. What's up with that? Still, she can be irreverent and raunchy when the time calls for it, and that material still makes me laugh.

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Synopsis

Filmmaker Kerry Asmussen captures the comedian performing her stand-up routine.

Director: Kerry Asmussen
Screenwriter: Margaret Cho
Distributor: Regent Releasing
Production Co: Autonomy Inc.
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 2, 2005, Original
Release Date (DVD): Nov 22, 2005
Box Office (Gross USA): $39.7K
Runtime: 1h 25m