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Margaret Cho: Amendment Award
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Earlier this week at the MoveOn.org awards gala for the contest winners of Bush in 30 Seconds, Margaret Cho performed and joked about the Republican National Committee's smear campaign against MoveOn. Cho joked that the RNC was looking for "Hitler in a haystack" about the RNC's lies about submissions to MoveOn's open entry contest when two ads compared Bush to Hitler. MoveOn did not endorse or agree with the ads, contrary to the propaganda from the RNC.
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Fall of ‘94 Cho made history as the first Korean-American to star in her own sitcom. ABC’s "All American Girl" focused on the generational and cultural conflicts between Margaret and her traditional Korean family. Cho’s other television credits include her brilliant 1994 HBO 1/2 Hour Comedy Special, which received a Cable ACE Award nomination for Best Comedy Special, Showtime’s "A Pair of Jokers" in which Cho shared the stage with Bobby Collins, host of the Lifetime special "Girl’s Night Out" and a cameo role in a Robert Townsend pilot. Where as Margaret is already a highly regarded veteran of comedy, she has made countless appearances on every network stand up show as well as The Late Show with David Letterman and NBC’s The Tonight Show. Cho’s voice has ... been heard on the animated series "Itsy Bitsy Spider" as well as HBO’s recent adaptation of "The Princess and the Pea" for "Happily Ever After; Fairy Tales for Every Child" a series of ethnically diverse animated fairy tales, in which Cho was the voice of the Queen, Uh-Muh-Ni.
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Great protectors of the First Amendment like Lenny Bruce and George Carlin have paved her way, but Margaret has a distinctive, individualistic, and ultimately empowering personal voice. She has remained a one-of-a-kind artist because she has always insisted on being herself and has resisted being made- over by the mainstream media. Her audience is huge and underserved - gays and lesbians, Asians, women, people of color, college students, comedy fans, and basically anyone who has ever felt invisible.
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