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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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