"My best tip is simple – to keep telling people you're really beautiful. It works and is pretty exciting, actually. You just spread the word about yourself that you're beautiful and people start thinking you are. And you are."

Cho likes to talk about many things – dogs, dance, gay and lesbian issues, current events, music, sensuousness, tattoos – not just topics that all comedians concern themselves with but topics she feels are important. Of course, any topic given the Cho twist can become outrageous. The Korean American who began by charming people in "All-American Girl" now shocks them in "The Cho Show."

Speaking by phone of the latter series on VH1, Cho says, "We've had great success with the first season and we're waiting to see if we're to be renewed for a second. We've had a wonderful time on that network. We're the second Asian American show on television. I was also the first, so that's some record of some kind – the first and second Asian American series on television."

"All-American Girl," which ran on ABC one season, in 1994-95, mostly concerned Cho's character of Margaret Kim in battle with her mother, who wanted her to be a nice Korean girl dating nice Korean boys. Kim wanted to be an American girl and leaned toward boys in leather. There were the seeds of the later Cho, but they weren't allowed to bloom.

"TV is different now than it was then. It was hard to create something. That was the studio system time of television with few networks. Now, we've got cable and we can go places we never could have back then. Take 'The Cho Show.' It's unlike anything around back then. We scripted everything, but we gave it the look of reality. I've never been comfortable with the idea of actual reality television."

Cho has also been working on what she calls "a really great show" for Lifetime called "Drop Dead Diva." She hopes to begin it next year. It's built around a black, skinny, beautiful woman who dies and is "reincarnated into the body of a fat woman. It's all about body image, which is an important issue."

She also has "Two Sisters," a short film for ABC Family, which should air sometime next year. It involves dancing, which is "another passion of mine, a beautiful art form I've been doing for some time now."

Meanwhile, Cho is putting together an album of comedy songs and concluding this tour, performing a show that she says is "very raunchy, very dirty, very wild, very crazy, and people should come."