“The Cho Show” – A New Not-So-Good Attempt for Margaret Cho

By Rebecca Brody
13:00, August 21st 2008
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“The Cho Show” – A New Not-So-Good Attempt for Margaret Cho

Fourteen years after the “All-American Girl” left the screens, it’s “Cho Show’s” time to come to light. Korean American comedian Margaret Cho is preparing for her VH1 show due to debut tonight at 11 p.m., although she’s not completely over 1994’s unfortunate short-lived ABC sitcom. However, this time she’s doing it her way, The Hollywood Reporter cited her as saying.

Producers of “All-American Girl” told her she needed to lose weight, so she lost 30 pounds, which caused her serious kidney problems. They subsequently told her she was “not Asian enough,” so she changed her approach. No, it wasn’t a good option either. Now she was “too Asian,” so the show was cancelled.

The semi-scripted “Cho Show” portrays the lives of Margaret, her parents and her 3-feet-10-inches-tall assistant. Nevertheless, there will be no husband in the show, as the program’s host told TV Guide, “We want to stay married.” In addition to this, she informed the same source that, “The first episode is about [my] getting an award for Korean of the Year and my own relationship - which has been pretty strained - with the Korean community. Subsequent episodes deal with aging, Hollywood, sexuality... On one episode, we go off the grid and live in a canyon.”

The premiere episode rotates around Margaret Cho’s endeavor of attending an event where she is due to receive a Korean of the Year award from a magazine. One of her gay stylists (if you didn’t know yet, the comedian is very fond of homosexuals) suggests her to appear all covered in body paint and she says they’d better test it at first. Sounds appealing? Your choice.

Now it’s parents time to come into scene. They look very nice and this fact raises numerous questions about her reasons of badmouthing them so many times. They bring their daughter a gift-wrapped box of baby clothes, but there’s a small problem: Margaret is not pregnant. However, chitchat between parents and daughter unleashes, leaving the comedian flabbergasted.

“The Cho Show” is not unpleasant at all, but it is quite unrefined and bumpy. One can really notice Cho’s been away for too long from the TV screens. And what’s more, it’s not certain to make one laugh.



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