It could be "Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List," but it's a new VH1 show about Margaret Cho.

The comedienne sais her "Cho Show" goes beyond that.

"I love Kathy Griffin's show. She's a very, very good friend of mine. I actually was just in it," Cho told a session at press tours. "But she's very different from me in that she's white."

Presenting a Korean family as well as an assistant who is a wisecracking little person, gives it a twist.

"We have, for the first time, really, truly this Asian-American family and also my wonderful assistant Selene. So I think it's kind of like a cross between Madonna's "Truth or Dare" and "Joy Luck Club" and "Little People, Big World."

It's quite a difference from the network sitcom in which she once starred, "All American Girl" in 1994.

"At that time, we brought the first Asian-American family on television. It was like a really very ground-breaking thing, a very difficult thing, and, you know, I'm very proud now to bring the second Asian-American family to television," she said. "I'm actually No. 1 and No. 2. So that's an achievement."

""I remember attending the TCA 15 years ago and how hard it was for us, how hard it was to represent a show that I had to work on, that I had so many problems with," she recalled. "One of the things that I remembered was after I did my first screen test, one executive freaked out and said, please never, ever, evershow your stomach in public ever again. Never. So that's why I'm like naked in the show all the time."

(It's pixelated though).

Since her other series, she says, television has changed a lot, she said. "It's wonderful to be working with VH1, who have been incredible in really allowing us to be ourselves."

But it's more than that, Cho said. "I feel like what we've done is really reinvented the sitcom, because it is like sitcom in we sort of explore the situations in a sitcom format, but it's with real people."