Her shows are magnets to women, people of color – and gay men.

Let’s break that down.

Cho is a woman.

She is of Korean ancestry.

She is a gay man – albeit one, she says, who is trapped in a woman’s body.

Sex and women’s bodies play a big role in Cho’s new comedy show, but she’s not joking about feeling like she is a gay male.

“I think it is just something that is part of my personality,” she said. “I have always spent a lot of time with gay men. I have always had a lot of gay friends. So, I feel like a gay man myself. And I am such a mannish woman anyway. It is also that I have a lot, a lot of community within gay culture. I have a lot of connections to gay males and the gay male experience.”

Cho said many of her fans have long thought they didn’t have a voice in the media but now think she provides that for them.

“They find a lot of comfort and excitement in my work. I feel really privileged that lots of people who come to my shows find it in my voice,” she told The Post.

That was not a goal when she first stepped out on a comedy stage as a 15-year-old in her native San Francisco. Her goals then were simple: Make people laugh and be a good entertainer.

“It took me a long time to develop (my act) into what I wanted to do,” she said. “It took me a while to figure out who I was as a performer. I was always very shy – I am still very shy as a person. When I am performing, that is really my job. That is really not my personality when I am up there. It is something I am doing. I really look at it as work.”

Cho, however, never doubted she would be a comedian. She never considered doing anything else.

“It is odd, but as soon as I started doing it, I knew that was my career path. I knew that it was the right thing. I felt really comfortable up there, more so than (talking) with one other person,” she said.

One comedian she mentions as a guiding light is Richard Pryor. She didn’t know him but loved his work.

Interestingly, critics often compare her comedy with Pryor’s, as well as that of Lenny Bruce. Truth is the common denominator.

Truth is one of the most important components of Cho’s comedy because it is so important in her life.

“I was raised (to) just always put forth this image like everything was OK – to lie,” she said. “My culture is really all about keeping a certain face on at all times, stony and very stoic, about every thing, really unemotional. And I am such an emotional person. I think my career has been all about this rebellion against the way I was raised. So, the truth is very important to me. To be honest and to be outspoken in that way is really what I am all about.”

Her comedy also is all about her life and sharing the most intimate details. Nothing is off limits, she said.

“If it seems funny and seems fresh to me and relevant, then I will always use it. Nothing is ever really too personal to use it. Those are often the best things, because there is so much truth to them. You want to really touch people. And I think that is where you get something really valuable,” she said.

Cho’s one-person show last year, “I Am the One That I Want,” told the story of her 1994-95 ABC sitcom “All American Girl” from the time she landed the show to its cancellation after one season to her slide into alcohol and other drug addictions and finally her awaking from that nightmare.

She filmed that tour and released a film of the same title that was a critical and financial success. She also published a book under the same title that landed on best-seller lists.

A spike in the book’s sales is likely soon, because it and Cho are the cover story of this month’s Rosie magazine. Also, the film is to be aired Oct. 5 on the Sundance Channel and released Oct. 8 on video and disc.

While last year’s stage show continues to create much interest, Cho’s latest offering is very different, she said.

“This show is very much about women’s bodies and the way society views women’s bodies as opposed to how we view ourselves. It is very sexually explicit. It is very explicit in general because it talks about bodily subjects, the idea of having a body. It is a lot about different types of addictions, especially addiction to food and addiction to sex. It is a very hard-core show, I think,” she said.

“The Notorious C.H.O. Tour” also is being filmed, probably for a 60-minute special that will debut on cable television.

Cho has come a long way from the shy teen who entered comedy just to make people laugh and ended up providing some people a voice – a very humorous one.

“It has grown into this incredible thing,” she said. “I am really pleased to be doing it, but I never envisioned it.”