Margaret Cho
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12/04/1968
San Francisco, CA |
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| Uses her ethnic background and upbringing for much of her stand-up material. |
| Won the 1991 U.S. College Comedy Competition, West Coast Division. The prize: opening for Jerry Seinfeld. |
| Won the 1994 American Comedy Award for Funniest Female Stand-Up Comic. |
| Began performing stand-up at age 16 in a comedy club named The Rose & Thistle, which was located above a bookstore run by her parents. |
| Parents emigrated from Korea to the Polk-Haight area of San Francisco in 1964. |
