Margaret Cho, the second speaker in this season's Distinguished Speaker Series, "rocked the house" in Eisenhower Auditorium last night just as she promised she would.

"I feel kinda weird," said Cho to the sold out crowd of 2,500 people. "I'm supposed to be a distinguished speaker? Wow. What do I do?"

Cho was at Penn State last night as part of her tour, CHO Revolution. Her work is known for its political foundation, and she did not stray from her biting political comedy last night.

"I am staying away from California," she shouted to the crowd. "We already had a governor! No take-backs!" Cho said Schwarzenegger referred to Hitler while campaigning, which should have kept him from winning the position.

"The one person you cannot give a shout-out to is Hitler," she said. "You cannot say that Hitler is a homie. Maybe Mussolini, maybe."

Cho said voters were misinformed, which is why people voted for Schwarzenegger at all. "People are so stupid and voted for him because they actually think he is a robot from the future."

Cho received the greatest reaction when she turned her comedy towards Bush.

"If we were gonna have a recall election, why don't we recall the presidential election?" she shouted above roaring laughter and applause.

Cho's ultimate message was that everyone should unite against inequalities. "We should have a million minority march," she said. "That would include everybody."

Cho criticized the government's action to ban same-sex marriages under the premise that "marriage is sacred." She said the government should look at marriage before they make such a statement.

"Carmen Electra and Dennis Rodman got married," Cho said. "Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley. Liza Minelli and David Gest--now that is my idea of marriage."

She took on a more serious tone as she reminded the audience members to "de-colonize" their minds. Cho spoke about how 1,049 federal rights are denied when lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people are not recognized as married couples.

"This can mean so many things, from becoming unable to collect social security after the deaths of their spouses to being unable to adopt children," she said.

Cho asked the audience to extend the right of love to others no matter what they thought about LGBT issues.

"LGBT people are defined by who they love and how they love," she said. "They exist in the world and they are there because they love."

Cho also addressed issues of abstinence, safe sex, pro-choice and religion.

She said the position of abortion rights supporters is not extreme, and though she isn't "pro-death," she thinks people should be able to make choices for themselves.

"I brought something for all of you who aren't pro-choice," Cho yelled as she gave the audience the finger. "I saw it and thought of you and said I had to get it."

Cho told the audience about her childhood, which gave her the experiences behind her views. She said she was "raised by seven gay men" while spending time in her father's bookstore.

She said their issues have led her to make the progress she has with the LGBT community. Cho said that she has struggled but she has always tried to be supportive of everyone.

"I've had every door slammed in my face," Cho said. "I've met every kind of rejection everywhere and I could never get a break. I felt totally hopeless and there were no Asian American icons for me."

Cho created laughs when she said Hello Kitty was her only icon, but because Hello Kitty did not have a mouth Cho considered her a weak role model.

"I had to forge my own path, and it was really lonely," Cho said.

She spoke about her sitcom All-American Girl which was canceled after only a year because it was not realistic.

"We had to be really Asian to make it work," Cho said. "They used my own self-hatred against me and I was so terrified of making a mistake that I didn't realize I was the star."

Cho spoke about being the star of the sitcom and dealing with weight issues because she was told she was too fat to play herself. She said since then, she has battled anorexia and bulimia.

Cho said she is older and wiser. She is learning to spend less time caring about her body image.

She said she follows a diet and exercise program where she delves within herself and then decides to eat anything she wants.

Matt Boyer, chair of DSS said he was glad Cho talked about more serious issues.

"I think to maintain the dignity of the message she needed to balance comedy with serious issues and she did that tonight," he said.

Allan Gyorke (graduate-adult education) said he agreed that her comedy added to the show.

"She is able to use comedy as a device to point out the absurdity of discrimination," Gyorke said. "A lot of what she says is true but we laugh about it because it's ridiculous when you look at it differently."