Margaret Cho
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American comedian and actress (born 1968)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 5 December 1968
- Works
- 12
Top works
- Live Through This
- Vagina Book
- BITCHfest
- Fat Sex
- The Art of Being Yay!
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 36,272
- Total plays
- 411,407
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Margaret Moran Cho is an American stand-up comedian, actress, musician and activist. She is known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems, especially regarding race and sexuality. She rose to prominence after starring in the ABC sitcom All-American Girl, and became an established stand-up comic in the subsequent years. As an actress, she has acted in such roles as Charlene Lee in It's My Party and John Travolta's FBI colleague in the action film Face
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Learning Phrase Representations using RNN Encoder–Decoder for Statistical Machine Translation
· 2014 · cited 16,007x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,936x
- TBtools: An Integrative Toolkit Developed for Interactive Analyses of Big Biological Data
· 2020 · cited 12,383x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,683x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,989x
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Quotes
- “I wanna fuck her, but I don't want to vote for her.”
- “Something traumatic happened to me when I was younger. I was with this old black woman, and she was very wise, very Alice Walker, The Color Purple...she looked at me and she says, "Baby...you know I used to be able to fly but I can't fly no more, baby. But baby, you...? You too fat to fly."”
- “I was working on this movie and the makeup artist was just so ugly! I just wanted to say "Physician, heal thyself!" She looked exactly like Aaron Neville, and she was trying her hardest to make me look exactly like Aaron Neville. This one time, she leaned into my face with the mascara wand almost touching my eye and she says, "Whass my name?"”
- “So I was drinking tequila, and I was drinking grappa, which is Italian for gasoline, and I was drinking Jägermeister, which I believe is the liquid equivalent of Wonder Woman's golden lasso, because it will make you tell anybody the truth for no reason whatsoever. "You have really bad skin. Thanks for the drink."”
- “And I got so drunk, I got so drunk that I actually woke up thinking, "Should I get up and pee, or just pee in the bed?" Actually weighing the pros and the cons. "Well, it'll be warm for a minute...it's a big bed, I'll just roll over...I'll just blame it on that guy!"”
- “This old fellow came up to me and asked, "Excuse me, are you Japanese?" No, I'm Korean. "Oh, really, that's very interesting, because I was looking at you and I knew you were not Filipino. I have many Filipino friends and you do not look like them because you're very HUSKY!!" Is that supposed to be some kind of a compliment? "Oh, no, it's not bad, you're very strong, very HUSKY!"”
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Key facts
- Born
- Margaret Moran Cho , ( 1968-12-05 ) December 5, 1968 (age 57) , San Francisco , California, U.S.
- Alma mater
- San Francisco State University
- Spouse
- Al Ridenour ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2003 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2019 )
- Years active
- 1992–present
- Medium
- Stand-up television film music
- Genres
- Observational comedy blue comedy surreal humor musical comedy satire
- Subjects
- American politics Asian American culture LGBTQ culture pop culture racism race relations current events human sexuality
- Hangul
- 조모란
- Hanja
- 趙牡丹
- Rr
- Jo Moran
- Mr
- Cho Moran
- Website
- margaretcho .com
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Margaret Moran Cho (born December 5, 1968) is an American stand-up comedian, actress and musician. In her stand-up routines she critiques social and political problems, especially about race and sexuality. She starred in the ABC sitcom All-American Girl (1994–95).
As an actress, she has played such roles as Charlene Lee in It's My Party and John Travolta's FBI colleague in the action film Face/Off. Cho was part of the cast of the TV series Drop Dead Diva on Lifetime Television, in which she appeared as Teri Lee, a paralegal assistant. For her portrayal of Kim Jong Il on 30 Rock, she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2012.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Margaret Cho” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.