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The Cho Show: Daughter of ReinventionMargaret Cho's new show feels like a celebreality-era redo of All-American GirlBy Robert AbelePublished on August 20, 2008 at 7:19pmIn the world of agitative comedy, Margaret Cho’s gifts are many, and her ability to triumph as an avowedly leftist, feminist, Korean-American, bisexual and profanely funny woman (with weight issues, even) is — ironically, considering her blistering jokes about this country’s flaws — like some weird and wonderful check in America’s We Got This One Right column. It may seem a little odd, then, to see her command a VH-1 series like The Cho Show, which puts her hard-won cachet as a provocateur into an all-too-familiar reality-show format: There’s the partner-in-sass assistant; the gay-stylist friends (called “the Glam Squad”), who, in tonight’s premiere episode, must solve her what-to-wear issue for a Korean-American awards show; and her loving but befuddled parents (familiar characters from her act), who just wish she’d throw a conventional-lifestyle bone their way, like a grandchild.
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