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Margaret Cho Is Hot American Actress

Margaret Cho is an American comedian, fashion designer, actress, author, and as of 2008, recording artist. Margaret Cho is best known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems, especially those pertaining to race, s*xuality, and s*x.

In acting terms, Margaret Cho has played more serious parts, such as that of John Travolta’s long-suffering FBI colleague in the action movie Face/Off. Margaret Cho was born into a Korean family in San Francisco, California. She grew up in a racially diverse neighborhood in the 1970s and 1980s, which she described as a community of, “old hippies, ex-druggies, burnouts from the ’60s, drag queens, Chinese people and Koreans.

Margaret Cho has also directed and appeared in music videos, and has her own clothing line. She has frequently supported gay rights, and identifies herself as queer. She has won awards for her humanitarian efforts on behalf of women, Asians, and the LGBT community. After doing several shows in a club adjacent to her parents’ bookstore, Margaret Cho launched a stand-up career and spent several years developing her material in clubs.

Margaret Cho’s career began to build after appearances on television and university campuses. She secured a coveted spot as opening act for Jerry Seinfeld, and was featured on a Bob Hope special. She was also a frequent visitor to The Arsenio Hall Show. In 1994, Margaret Cho won the American Comedy Award for Best Female Comedian.

Margaret Cho

Comedian Margaret Cho has spent her career defying social norms and stereotypes, and has become a political icon in the process, writes Garrett Bithell.

“THIS IS A VERY HOT NEWS OF USA the news about couple of days before Mardi Gras there was a big drug bust in Australia. And I was like ‘oh no, that’s a hate crime’! Making all those gays stay up all night with no drugs.”

And there we go – another perfect Margaret Cho one-liner. She is, of course, talking about last year’s Sydney Gay and L*sbian Mardi Gras. She was in Sydney debuting her new one-woman show, Beautiful, and was also given the coveted role of ‘Chief of Parade’, along with locals Shane Brennan and Craig Gee, victims of a brutal gay bashing on Oxford Street just two months before.

“It was wonderful,” Margaret Cho tells SX. “It was the biggest gay pride event I’ve ever seen in my life – which is saying a lot because I’ve been to a lot of them!

There has always been a healthy dose of politics in Margaret Cho’s material. In 2004, she took her politically-charged State of Emergency on the road ahead of the US presidential election. She has also received the First Amendment Award from the ACLU of California and has been honoured by a number of GLBT organisations, including the National Gay and L*sbian Task Force.

This month Cho releases a DVD of her popular reality-sitcom, The Cho Show, which follows her, her real parents, and her eccentric entourage through a series of utterly outrageous experiences – all shaped by her ‘anything goes’ brand of stand-up. It is this irreverence that has landed her in hot water many times before – but she couldn’t care less.

“I think if you grow up and you’re called racial slurs and ‘fag’ and ‘queer’ and ‘homo’ and ‘dyke’ … you just don’t even hear them anymore and certainly don’t care. So yeah, I get a lot of that and I don’t care.”

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