This just tickled my funny bone because you just have to love the sheer joy of Cho.
Does it get any better than THIS in TV Land people? I'm gonna say No for right now because I can't begin to even imagine the on-screen and off-screen drama that I'm sure has to ensue and I'm really hoping The Hoff gets shitfaced, vomits on the "The Situation", Sarah Palin makes a guest appearance and Cho proceeds to beat all their asses down just because she can.
Say it with me.
MF Awesome.
And don't deny it - you're gonna watch this train wreck of a what the hell did we do to deserve such spectacular TV???!!!!!!!!
And A Few Words From The Cho Blog
I’m so excited to be doing Dancing With The Stars, but I’ve got a lot to learn. I’ve got some mean stripper moves and I can pick up a dollar with my butt, however the Viennese Waltz is all new for me! I’ve been training with my partner for three days now and I can’t believe how much my body hurts! I’m trying to embrace the pain.Sweet.
Margaret Cho & Friends – plus music video shoot!
I’m doing one last Margaret Cho and Friends show at El Cid in February. We’ll be filming the audience during the show, as part of the video for “Eat Shit and Die,” the song from my new album that I wrote with Grant Lee Phillips.
Please come and be a part of it! It’s gonna be a lot of fun and at the helm will be the amazing Liam Sullivan!! Liam has signed on to direct videos for my record, which I am so thrilled about – so if you always wanted to be in a music video, and you are fans of me and Liam – it’s gonna be a dream come true. We are doing a 1920s extravaganza and if you come dressed in 20s attire, we will put you front and center, and you will get a free Revolution DVD. And I am sure you will look super cute too. So please come and join us in this very very special event. I will be performing, along with some special guests, we will film me, we will film you – it’s gonna be amazing!!!
Just an FIY that Cho's Beautiful - concert and soundtrack - is available on iTunes and Limewire.
Search and you will find.
In case you were wondering "Hmmm...I wonder what Margaret Cho is up too?" look no further because who would have thunk it - that's what this post is all about.
This has been making the rounds and I thought I'd post it up here as well.
If you're interested, there's a review on The Cho Show down at the LA Times and while it focuses half of the article on her and her past, it's there if you want to check it out:
Still, comedy subsists on pain, and the show, whose tenor is largely happy and light, goes for fuel to still-painful memories of darker times.Read the full article here.
"I totally forget," she says, tearing up. "Like, I'm so, like, fabulous now, I'm so glamorous now. But I really didn't feel like that when I was a kid at all -- it was really hard."
On the premiere episode, Cho is to receive an award -- KoreAm Journal’s "Entertainment Achievement Award" and not, as she insists, "Korean of the Year" -- which brings up questions of acceptance by her community.
She's "angry" about the years she felt rejected by them, she tells her "spiritual advisor." (This overplays somewhat the hostility of a group that is, after all, throwing her a party, but it ends in love.)
If you're interested, you can check out Episode 1 of The Cho Show online down at Logo's website by going here. It's definitely different and something new, and from the "supertrailer" it looks like there's going to be some pretty funny cameos in upcoming episodes.
If you're going to be checking out the new Margaret Cho reality series The Cho Show on VH1 - and who isn't interested to see what it's going to like - the New York Times has a preview into what it will be offering:
Like her friend and fellow comedian, Kathy Griffin, who has found television stardom through a reality show, the Emmy-winning “My Life on the D-List,” Ms. Cho has a faithful gay following and parents who are game to be the butt of the joke. But the stakes seem higher for Ms. Cho, who also brings to the table a vulnerability born out of being an anomaly among generally conservative Korean- Americans. Much of the first episode of “The Cho Show” is devoted to her fretting over whether to accept an entertainment achievement award given to her by KoreAm Journal, an English-language monthly magazine that covers Korean-Americans nationwide.It'll be interesting to see how the show actually is, what the response is like, and if we'll be seeing more of Cho, and her parents in a season two.
“You’ve never supported me, you don’t care about your kids, you want us all to be pianists,” is what Ms. Cho says she would like to say to the Korean-American media, who once skewered her as “the worst thing to happen to Koreans since they put up the demilitarization zone.”
Her father advises her to cover up her tattoos and accept the award, but a friend’s encouragement holds more sway.
“Let me tell you something, O.K.?,” says Bobby Lee, a Korean-American comedian who appears on “Mad TV” on Fox. “When I was in high school, I saw your special, and it made me realize that I could do it also. Margaret, you’re a pioneer.”
I missed this earlier this week, but Wednesday, April 30th was Margaret Cho Day in San Francisco - so it's worth mentioning. The live event, which happened at the City Hall, was also taped and will be used in her new VH1 show "The Cho Show".
Cool.
Fil-Am lady lawyer’s historic run in Illinois
A top Filipino-American real estate lawyer is eyeing a chance to make history in Illinois when she runs for a seat in the State Assembly. Aurora Abella-Austriaco, 43, ran unopposed in the Democratic Primary, garnering 9,875 votes, nearly double the votes of the 16-year Republican incumbent she's facing in the November 4 general election. If elected, she will be the first ever Asian American state representative in Illinois, also known as the Land of Lincoln, being the hometown of the Civil War era president. She will represent a district which includes the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, where former first lady and New York Senator Hillary Clinton grew up.
Tang Wei: “Lust, Caution” actress banned in China
According to news reports, Tang Wei, the Chinese actress made famous in Ang Lee’s “Lust, Caution”, is currently band from all media in China - television, film, print, etc. As you may recall, “Lust, Caution” is a suspense-thriller set during the World II era of Japanese occupied Shanghai - with Tang Wei’s character trying to seduce a Japanese collaborator, with some heated sex scenes (thus resulting in a lot of controversy)...
For Margaret Cho, her upcoming three-day engagement at The Warfield is a double homecoming. Not only does it bring Cho back to the Bay Area, it returns the San Francisco-born stand-up comedian to the artform which made her famous.
With comic Liam Sullivan opening – and his "Shoes"-loving alter-ego, YouTube sensation Kelly, as special musical guest – Cho plays her hometown March 14-16 as part of her national Beautiful Tour. Here the funny lady who has carved an indelible niche for herself within the LGBT community discusses her return to stand-up, touring the country and an evolving sense of "beauty."
The film Falling For Grace - written, starring, and directed by Fay Ann Lee, which started making its rounds here in 06/07 (making a limited release this summer) is making its Canadian debut tomorrow.
If you happened to miss it, check out the trailer below (the movie also has Margaret Cho and Ken Leung in it):
Still no word yet on a DVD release.
A pair of tickets is being given away for Margaret Cho's Off-Broadway variety show The Sensous Woman. Basically all you have to do is post a comment to her MySpace blog post about the giveaway, and they'll pick a winner this Thursday from one of the comment posters - which could be you. Here's the full information from the Cho bulletin:
Hey Cho Friends,
Margaret's new Off-Broadway variety show, The Sensuous Woman, is winding down at The Zipper Factory in New York. There are only six shows left this week! Tickets and show info available here.
We've got a pair of tickets* to the 8pm show on Saturday, November 17th to give away to a friend of Margaret's. If you'd like the tix, just post a comment in her blog entry about the giveaway. We'll assign a number to each entry, then draw a winner and announce it in her myspace blog on Thursday at 11am PST.
Good Luck!!
*Offer is for 2 tickets only, and does not include travel, accomodations or any other costs associated with attending the show. If you are the winner, we will contact you through MySpace with all of the details.
