Justice for Margaret Cho’s too-good-for-its-time sitcom, All-American Lady! Okay, it was decidedly not good, but it surely was the primary prime-time sitcom to function an Asian American household, and Cho has hardly ever been handed the credit score she deserves for her boundary-pushing views on cultural id and queerness.
Melissa McCarthy
If I believe too lengthy about Melissa McCarthy’s supply of the road “I’m not going to say I survived…I’m going to say I thrived” within the 2011 movie Bridesmaids, I nonetheless get the giggles. No much less an authority than Mindy Kaling extolled the virtues of the Gilmore Women alum’s efficiency, writing in her debut memoir, Is Everybody Hanging Out With out Me?, “You don’t usually hear the phrases charming and gross used to explain the identical character in a film, however Melissa McCarthy managed to evoke each in the perfect methods.” Firmly agree.
