Margaret Cho
- Birthplace: San Francisco, California
- Birthday: December 5, 1968
This stand-up comedy phenom of the 1990s fleetingly turned sitcom lead as the star of "All-American Girl" (ABC, 1994-95). Cho skillfully mined the many contradictions and absurdities of her dual heritage as a twenty-something Korean-American to generate laughs while exposing and exploding ethnic and sexual stereotypes from within and without.
Cho began performing stand-up while enrolled in the theater program at San Francisco State University. The comedy club where she began developing her act was conveniently located above the book…more