Margaret Cho Returns To Television
The fabulous and funny Margaret Cho has returned to television this fall with a new VH1 reality program. She calls The Cho Show “a sitcom starring real people” - including, surprisingly, her parents, whom any Cho fan worth his or her salt already know very well. She dished with the LA Times about her new venture.
On getting her parents to participate:
They were suspicious! They thought I was going to punk them. They were worried the whole time, they kept getting scared. I don’t know what they thought I was going to do. They were like, “What is reality show? What do we say?” . . . So what’s good about the show is it is semi-scripted, all of the situations are scripted. . . . My parents are good improvisers! They’re so great with dialogue. I think they should be in the next Christopher Guest movie.
On choosing to accept the Korean of the Year Award in the pilot episode:
It was really a struggle — am I going to accept this award from people who spit on me? What happened was, it’s been 15 years and all the people who hated me died. So that’s cool!
And all their kids really love me, because their kids saw me on TV and I was like the first Asian American person they saw and they were like, “There’s other ones! There’s other Asians!”
On what didn’t make it into the show:
All the drug references. Because every other joke is a drug joke. I don’t do drugs, but to me it’s just funny to talk about doing drugs all the time. I can’t handle it. I’m such a grandma. When I go out I’m like, “Make me a Grey Goose and soda but make it weak like you’re making it for a baby.”
On why she supports Barack Obama:
I’ve been an Obama campaign surrogate for a while now. . . . I became an Obama campaign supporter because [the actor] Kal Penn [of "House"] promised me he’d give me an autographed photo of Hugh Laurie . . . because I was a Hillary person before. . . . The thing is, Kal Penn never got me that autographed picture of Hugh Laurie. And that was really painful.
The Cho Show debuted last Thursday and will run for seven episodes. Check it out!
Video Source: LA Times
POSTED BY: gossipmonkey
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