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Margaret Cho: San Francisco
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Margaret Cho was born December 5, 1968 and raised in San Francisco. "It was different than any other place on Earth," she says. "I grew up and went to grammar school on Haight Street during the '70s. There were old hippies, ex-druggies, burnouts from the '60s, drag queens, and Chinese people. To say it was a melting pot - that's the least of it. It was a really confusing, enlightening, wonderful time."
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Margaret Cho was born Dec. 5, 1968 and raised in San Francisco. Her grandfather was a Methodist minister who ran an orphanage in Seoul during the Korean War. Ignoring the traditions of her patriarchal culture, her mother bravely resisted an arranged marriage in Korea and married Margaret's father who writes joke books - in Korean.
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Cho's parents, Young-Hie and Seung-Hoon Cho[2] ran a bookstore on San Francisco's Polk Street. Her father writes joke books as well as a newspaper column in Seoul, Korea.[3] After Cho expressed an interest in performance, she auditioned and was accepted into the San Francisco School of the Arts, a performing arts high school. While at the school, she became involved with the school's improvisational comedy group.[4]
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Cho hit the depths of depression when it was canceled in its first season. She sank into alcohol and drug addiction before she pulled herself out of the pit of self-pity and turned her harrowing experiences into a scathing stand-up act turned one-woman show, something akin to Julia Sweeney's "God Said Ha!"
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Born to a traditional, first-generation Korean-American family in San Francisco, Cho grew up treated as an inferior to her brother. She was criticized for being chunky, and encouraged to pursue a suitable woman's career and a good husband.
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