Credit: Photo via Margaret Cho
St. Pete Pride is still a month away, but the grand marshall of Los Angeles’ Pride celebration is in town to help Floridians laugh as the state goes to hell in a handbasket.

Margaret Cho, 54, was an outsider just finding her voice in the ‘90s but has since established herself as not just one of comedy’s most sought-after artists, but an author and actor in serious demand, too.

The “Live & Livid” tour promises to be a “livid” affair (in an interview with St. Pete Catalyst, Cho said DeSantis eating pudding with three fingers “is basically fisting”) so be prepared for some hurt feelings as the aisles clear after the show wraps.

Friday, May 19, 7:30 p.m. $34.50. Louise Lykes Ferguson Hall at David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts, 1010 W.C. MacInnes Pl., Tampa. strazcenter.org

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...