The above clip from the pilot episode of the short-lived sitcom All-American Girl, features a then-25 year-old Margaret Cho and a then-40-year-old Jodi Long, as her mother. The show lasted all of 19 episodes from 1994-1995 and used the “plight-of-the-Asian-family-torn-between-two-cultures-and-coping-with-life-in-the-US” formula. The storyline and its characters were based on Margaret’s stand-up act (before it relied on profanity and revolved around the word “lesbian”), but unlike Margaret’s early routines, All-American Girl needed the laugh track to get laughs.
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