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Margaret Cho (born Moran Cho on December 5, 1968
in San Francisco, California) is a Korean
American|Korean-American comedian and
actor|actress. 

==Biography==

Cho won the American Comedy Award for Best Female
Comedian in 1994. She made television history by
being the first Asian American (male or female) to
have a television series based around her. The
series, called All American Girl, was quickly
canceled after suffering major content changes
over the course of one season.  The program was
also problematic because much of the humor was
based on broad Asian stereotypical portrayals of
her relatives. Cho has discussed the fact that she
was forced to lose a very large amount of weight
in order to play what was essentially herself. She
was also told she was "not Asian enough," and then
later, "too Asian". Since then, she has had
several successful one-woman shows. The first,
called I'm the One That I Want, dealt with her
difficulties breaking into show business due to
her ethnicity and weight. The film version became
the highest-grossing film in history in proportion
to the number of prints ($1.4 million with only 9
prints).

The second, Notorious C.H.O. (the title a spoof on
rap artist Lil' Kim's album The Notorious K.I.M.,
and that in turn being a tribute to Lil' Kim's
late boyfriend's nickname "The Notorious B.I.G.")
dealt with her having been raised in 1970s San
Francisco and her own bisexuality. Both tours
spawned live movie versions, albums and books.

Much of her comedy is quite sexually explicit;
some of her favourite subjects include her
fondness for gay men and proud identity as a "fag
hag," sharp political commentary, descriptions of
her problems with prejudice, substance abuse, and
eating disorders, and her relationship with her
mother, which she loves to satirize.  She has
comedically mentioned her plans to "cover her
vagina with leaves" because of her belief that
falling in to such a trap was the only way that
someone would enter it. In the same vein, she has
also remarked that if one doesn't have sex for a
long time, say two years, then one's virginity is
automatically earned back. The poster for her
first one-woman show (and film), "I'm the One That
I Want," featured her holding her arms out as if
gripping a steering wheel but with her index
finger extended, an allusion to a joke she tells
involving using digital rectal stimulation as a
means towards more expediently ending a sexual
encounter. 

In 2003 filmed another comedy film, Revolution.
She also began an internet presence with the
advent of http://www.margaretcho.com and her daily
weblog. She began to draw intense fire from
conservatives over her fiercely anti-George W.
Bush|Bush commentary; a live performance in
Houston, Texas was threatened with picketing.
Although protesters never showed up, she held a
counter protest outside the club until security
told her she had to go inside. Cho also started
http://www.loveisloveislove.com Love is Love is
Love, a website promoting tolerance of
homosexuality and the legalization of gay marriage
in the United States. Additionally, a clothing
line called "High Class Cho"
(http://www.highclasscho.com) was started; with it
Cho hopes to bring attractive clothing to the
market for plus sized women.

In 2004 Cho was performing at a corporate gig in a
hotel when, after 10 minutes, her microphone was
cut off and a band was instructed to begin
playing. This was because the manager of the hotel
was offended by anti-Bush-administration comments.
Cho's payment, which was issued by way of check
directly to a non-profit organization, West
Memphis Three, initially bounced but was
eventually
honored.http://www.margaretcho.com/blog/theyturned
offthemic.htmhttp://www.onlineseats.com/margaret-c
ho-tickets/index.asp In July 2004 during the
Democratic National Convention, Cho was un-invited
to speak at a Human Rights Campaign/National
Stonewall Democrats fundraiser because of fear
that her comments might cause controversy.

In late 2004 Cho began work on her first
self-written and starring film role. The movie is
called Bam Bam and Celeste and is a low-budget
comedy about a fag hag and her gay best friend.
The film co-stars Cho's friend and co-touring act
Bruce Daniels. The film is currently in
post-production.

Cho has dated Quentin Tarantino (who appeared on
an episode of her sitcom as a favor), Chris Isaak
and Garrett Wang. In 2003 she married Al Ridenour,
a marriage she described as: "It's not a
traditional situation. It's not a committed
marriage. We're just friends who share space. My
parents don't understand it. They just send us
Yahoo E-cards wishing us well."  Some
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0350/baard2.php
offered criticism that Cho would marry a man while
complaining about the discrimination inherent in
not allowing gay couples to marry or have legal
rights. Cho was outraged at the idea that her
strong and constant efforts for gay rights would
somehow be invalid just because she got married.

In 2005 Cho started promoting and touring with her
new show "Assassin". The show will be turned into
a live concert film which will premiere on the gay
and lesbian premium cable network Here!. Posters
feature Cho in paratrooper gear holding a
microphone in the style of an automatic rifle.

Also in 2005, Cho adopted a dog and named it
Gudrun, announching on her weblog that the name
was in honor of  the noted 1970s German terrorist
Gudrun Ensslin
http://margaretcho.com/blog/gudrun.htm.

==Quotations==

:I just don't get it. People come up to me and ask
me where I'm from and it's such a loaded question.
And I'll say 'I'm from San Francisco,' and they
lean in and whisper 'No, I mean where are you
REALLY from?' And then I have to say 'Well, my
parents are originally from Korea.' And then I
have to listen to stories about all of the Korean
people they know, or some Korean food they ate
once, or how they're not sure they're pronouncing
a Korean word right. And it's like...I don't care.
I don't get it! I never walk up to white people
and say, like, 'Oh my God, are you from France?
No, not recently, I mean like a couple thousand
years ago? Oh my God I totally knew it! I love
your fries!

:I grew up in San Francisco... in the midst of
Polk Street, hanky codes, poppers, San Francisco.
... My parents owned a book store on Polk Street,
and my mother was in charge of the gay porn. Which
is like crazy. She would pull out these books and
show me to talk about them. 'Dese book? Dass call'
Ass Mastuh. Wha is Ass Mastuh? ... Dis is a gay, a
book for gay, because Mommy know about de gay. De
gay... dey like-uh ass. They like-uh ass soooooo
much. ... But dey like-uh ass too much. You have
to have-uh ass in moderation. You canno' have-uh
ass all da time. Because-uh if you have ass all da
time, den it not special. ... Dere is a boy, and
his name is Paul. And Mommy like Paul. He's a
nice, nice boy but he's-uh gay, and he only like
two sings. He like-uh ass...and Judy Garland, and
dass all. What kind of-uh life is it like dat?
Dere's-uh ass, and ass-over-the-rainbow, and dass
all.

==Bibliography==
*I'm the One That I Want (2000)
*I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight (2005)

==Filmography==
*Sweethearts (1996)
*Face/Off (1997)
*I'm the One That I Want (2000)
*The Notorious C.H.O. (2001)
*Revolution (2003)

==Discography==
*Drunk With Power (1997)
*I'm the One That I Want (2000)
*Notorious C.H.O. (2001)
*Revolution (2003)