There's no business like Cho business.Byline: The Register-Guard IN HER NEW stand-up stand·up or stand-up adj. 1. Standing erect; upright: a standup collar. 2. Taken, done, or used while standing: a standup supper; a standup bar. show, Margaret Cho tackles an array of new subjects ranging from colonic hydrotherapy hydrotherapy, use of water in the treatment of illness or injury. Although the medicinal and hygienic value of water was recognized by the early Greeks, hydrotherapy attained its widest use in the 18th and 19th cent. to S&M sex clubs to "the only gay club in Scotland." The incendiary INCENDIARY, crim. law. One who maliciously and willfully sets another person's house on fire; one guilty of the crime of arson. 2. This offence is punished by the statute laws of the different states according to their several provisions. comedian comes to the Hult Center today for a performance sponsored by the University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. Cultural Forum. The show will be followed by a question-and-answer session. Raised in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Cho made her comedic debut at age 16, performing in a comedy club above her parents' bookstore. She lists Richard Pryor as her greatest early comedic influence. "He (Pryor) would dare to reveal who he was at every opportunity," Cho said in an August interview with the Detroit Free Press The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, USA. It is sometimes informally referred to as the "Freep". Some still refer to it locally as "The Friendly" -- a slogan from an ad campaign in the '70s. . "He never hid behind jokes. Even when he did characters, they were obviously real people. `It was that honesty I always aspired to." Cho's Korean-American heritage has long been one of her favorite "real" subjects; she has been skewering her parents in her routine from the time she won her first major comedy contest as a teen- ager. The prize was an opening slot on a Jerry Seinfeld This article is about the comedian. For the character, see Jerry Seinfeld (character). Jerry Seinfeld (born Jerome Seinfeld on April 29, 1954 in New York City, New York) is a Golden Globe- and Emmy Award-winning American comedian, actor and writer. tour, and Cho's career quickly took off from there. During the 1990s, Cho was picked to star in the ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. sitcom `All-American Girl.' The show was cancelled after Cho refused to follow the network's suggestion that she lose weight and water down her character. Cho later detailed her struggle with the network and embraced her full figure in the one woman confessional show "I'm the One That I Want." The show became an off-Broadway hit, and she released a best-selling book and a live concert movie by the same name. She followed up with the tour "The Notorious C.H.O," another touring show that was captured on film, before putting together her current routine. Cho, whom The Washington Post once called "the patron saint of anyone who has ever felt like an outsider," said she continues to find new fans in unlikely places. "I've found that, as unique as I think I might be, there's a whole lot of people out there - gay and straight, men and women, Asian and Caucasian - who seem to be dealing with the same things I deal with every day and finding them just as funny and ridiculous," Cho told the Detroit Free Press. "The weird thing is, the more honest I got with my comedy, the more inclusive I became. `I have a lot of friends out there I've never met, so I gotta get busy." CAPTION(S): Margaret Cho brings her new act to the Hult Center tonight. Stand-up |
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