COMEDIAN. ACTIVIST. ACTRESS. Belly dancer. And that's just the start of a list that covers Margaret Cho's world.

Howard Stern has often said he is the king of all media, but at the rate Cho, 39, is moving on up, Stern may soon have some royal company. This year alone she's traveling with the True Colors Tour -- benefit concerts for the Human Rights Campaign -- preparing for the release of two new movies (one marking her directorial debut) and getting ready to film another stand-up DVD early next year. And while they both have books to their credit, Stern never helmed his own sitcom (the groundbreaking American Girl).

Somehow you get the feeling Cho's just getting started. As soon as the 16-city True Colors Tour wraps at the end of June, Cho will gear up for the summer release of her new movie Bam Bam and Celeste, which she wrote, starred in and produced. Cho says she moved into the new terrain of producing because of a lack of interest from mainstream Hollywood producers.

"I don't do kung-fu so I have to do things [in Hollywood] myself," jokes Cho, the first-generation daughter of Asian immigrants who grew up in San Francisco.

Meanwhile, Cho is putting the finishing touches on her belly dance-themed movie (and directorial debut) with Two Sisters, which she hopes to premiere at movie festivals next year. The film is the result of her deep admiration for belly dancing, which she credits for her weight loss.

"I dance every day and I love it. It's a great workout," she says. "With my background as a dancer, to be moving, to be doing that is amazing."

Indeed, in 2003's Margaret Cho: Revolution, she credits her father with first pointing out she was "the fat ballerina," thus starting her on a lifetime road of self-loathing and body image issues. And in the same show, she bared all about some of the uncomfortable positions -- such as finding herself in the middle of LA freeway traffic with a sudden and undeniable urge to shit herself -- in which she'd found herself for the sake of losing weight. But Cho stands firm she arrived at her present weight through a healthy diet and belly dancing.

"People are going to be saying anything about whatever," Cho says, shrugging off the rumors of gastric bypass surgery.

And that's not all Cho wants to clear up. There's this little thing between her and Gwen Stefani stemming from Cho's outspoken disapproval of the pop singer's harajuku girls. In magazines and on her blog, Cho has dressed down Stefani's use of the Japanese street-style fashionistas as part of her act.

"I'm surprised she even knew about it because she's such a huge star. So it's funny when you, like, say something and you realize they hear about it. It's really weird to me," Cho says. "I feel bad because I'm actually a fan of hers. I wasn't trying to say she was doing something wrong. It's more to express my shock. Whenever I see other Asian people in entertainment, [it's] because of the rarity of our existence out here [in Hollywood]. So every time I see characters like the harajuku girls it shocks me, in a good way. I was just kind of processing my feelings about it. I think she misunderstood me."

While Cho and Stefani might not be friends any time soon, the comedian may get one new celeb fan in Paris Hilton.

"I don't think Paris Hilton should go to jail," Cho says, adding that the experience can't reach someone as wealthy as Hilton. "She's not merely rich, she's from another planet."