Margaret Cho

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Margaret Cho (2008)

Margaret Moran Cho (born December 5, 1968 in San Francisco ) is an American actress and stand-up comedian of Korean descent.

General

Much of their comedy has sexually explicit content. Her favorite topics include her predilection for gays and her proud identity as " Fag Hag " (slang expression for the best friend of a gay), sharp political comments, explanations about her problems with prejudice (especially regarding her Asian background), drug experiences, Eating disorders and her relationship with her mother, which she loves to exaggerate in a satirical way. Among other things, she described her plans to "cover her vagina with leaves" because of her belief that falling into this trap is the only way to have sex at all. In the same breath, she emphasized that after about two years without sex someone automatically gets their virginity back. However, their tendency to be overweight is also part of their shows; especially around 1993-1994, when her television series All American Girl, written by Elizabeth Wong , was current and she was urged from several sides to lose weight because she would otherwise not fit into the show, she picked up this topic more and more. In her Comedy Half Hour show, for example, she says that she got a call from the producer of the series who, together with the other parties involved, decided in a meeting that she had to lose weight and that she couldn't believe that one was “a Meeting held to discuss my big fat ass ”.

biography

Margaret Cho at the 1994 Emmy Awards

Margaret Cho grew up on Polk Street in San Francisco , then the city's gay center in the 1970s, where her parents, who were from Korea, had a bookstore.

Around 1994

Cho won the American Comedy Award for Best Comedian in 1994 . She made television history by appearing as the first Asian American (male and female) to get her own television series. The series, All American Girl , was quickly canceled after major content changes were made during the course of the first season. The format was also problematic because of Cho's humor, which was based on broad, Asian-cliché portraits of her relatives. Since then, Cho has had several successful stand-up comedy shows. The first, called I'm the One That I Want , dealt with the difficulties she encountered in her foray into show business because of her race and weight. The film version of this became the highest-grossing film in history in proportion to the number of copies ($ 1.4 million from just nine copies).

The second, Notorious CHO (the title is a reference to rapper Lil 'Kim's album The Notorious KIM , and also the name of her former partner, The Notorious BIG ), looks at her bisexual childhood and bisexuality in San Francisco in the 1970s . Live recordings, albums and books exist for both tours.

The poster of her first show (and the first film), “ I'm the One That I Want ”, shows her stretching out her arms as if she were at the wheel of a car, but with an outstretched index finger; this is an allusion to a joke in this program, in which she talks about how difficult financial circumstances led them oral favors to offer to men that you did not care, and that it was this fall to a man once who ulcerative would have had , and she would rather "give him a quick blow and then leave" than risk his bowels emptying spontaneously, which can typically happen with colitis.

2003

In 2003 Cho made another film called Revolution . She is now represented on the Internet and maintains her daily weblog there . Not least because of her anti- Bush comments, she drew the wrath of conservatives in the USA; a gig in Houston was therefore not threatening to take place. Although protesters never showed up, she held a counter-demonstration outside the club until security forces told her to go inside. Cho also started a website promoting gay tolerance and the legalization of marriage . In addition, she released her own collection called High Class Cho ; With these clothes Cho would like to bring attractive fashion closer to overweight women.

2004

Margaret Cho (top right) on the cover of Ms. Magazine in spring 2003 as part of the “This is what a feminist looks like” campaign

In 2004, after a ten minute show for a company, Cho had the microphone turned off and a band started playing. Cho claims this happened because the manager of the hotel was upset about the anti- Bush comments. The check for their fee, which went directly to the non-profit organization "West Memphis Three", initially failed, but the fee was finally paid.

In July 2004, during the US Democratic National Convention , Cho was asked not to deliver the scheduled speech at a Human Rights Campaign / National Stonewall Democrats benefit event because there was apparently fear that her comments would spark a dispute.

In late 2004, Cho began working on her first self-written film, in which she would also play the lead role. This film, called Bam Bam and Celeste, is a low budget comedy about a fag hag and her best gay friend, and it also stars Cho's friend and tour act Bruce Daniels . The film is currently in the post-production phase.

Cho has dated Quentin Tarantino (who appeared once on an episode of their sitcom), Chris Isaak and Garrett Wang . In 2003 she married Al Ridenour, an artist involved in the creation of the Cacophony Society , which is the basis for Chuck Palahniuk's book Fight Club .

2005

In 2005 Cho began promoting and touring her new show Assassin . There will be a live concert film for this show, which will celebrate its premiere on the gay and lesbian channel “Here!”. On the posters, Cho can be seen in paratrooper gear holding a microphone in the manner of a machine gun.

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Others

bibliography

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

Filmography (selection)

Discography

  • Drunk With Power (1997)
  • I'm the One That I Want (2000)
  • Notorious CHO (2001)
  • Revolution (2003)
  • Assassin (2005)
  • Beautiful (2009)

Tours

  • "I'm the One That I Want"
  • "Notorious CHO"
  • "Revolution" (2003)
  • "State of Emergency" (2004)
  • "Assassin" (2005)
  • "Beautiful" (2009)
  • "Mother" (2013)

Web links

Commons : Margaret Cho  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ 'Weird Al' Enlists Jack Black, Aisha Tyler for Pharrell Parody 'Tacky' , accessed December 19, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Cho, Margaret
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cho, Moran (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American stand-up comedian and actress
DATE OF BIRTH 5th December 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco