When Cho brings her in-your-face “Notorious C.H.O. Tour” to The Pageant on Saturday night, the colorful language will be fully intact. After all, the name and attitude of her show is inspired by a walk on the wild side. And while it has been a big hit in clubs across the country, it’s clearly not built around family-friendly material.

Cho is frank about her subject matter.

“It’s all about documenting my experiences in this weird phase where I was going to a lot of sex clubs,” Cho said last week from Los Angeles. “I got into a relationship where I was involved with a guy who was into that. He introduced me into that whole world.”

She doesn’t glamorize it, but she is honest about her experiences.

“It was enlightening, but not sexy,” Cho said. “It’s gross and funny. Really weird. The whole effect was lost on me.”

The show is also a parody – or perhaps tribute – to the women who have become a powerful force in the hip-hop scene such as Lil’ Kim and Missy Elliot. A promotional photo for Cho’s new 35-city show has the comedian showing off a pair of gold dollar sign earrings and a healthy dose of cleavage.

“Visually, I wanted that look for the show,” Cho, 32, said of her urban chic style. “I’m very much up on the hootchie mama trends. But ghetto fabulous is very hard to maintain.”

While the show will explore her body and society’s requirement for women to be thin to be in, it will also return Cho to the ethnic-comedy roots that eventually landed her in an ill-fated ABC sitcom in 1994.

“All American Girl” lasted only one season. It was awful, she will admit now. The jokes that were so funny on stage didn’t translate into sitcom. The network worried that Cho’s material, based on her life, poked fun too strongly at the Korean community. So it was watered down. Viewers quickly dismissed it, and her slot in prime time was given to Drew Carey.

The failure of the show devastated Cho. Vodka and Xanax became staples of her diet and ammunition in a plot to kill herself.

As many other artists have done, Cho took a low point in her life and made it part of a creative process that would eventually rescue her. Out of it came her one-woman show last year, “I Am the One That I Want.” She filmed the show, which got limited theater release and came out on VHS and DVD this week. She also published a book under the same title. She plans to turn her current show into a cable special.

“The last show was about coming of age. This is more of an adult show,” Cho says in a quiet, tranquil way, hinting that her wind-up-toy-gone-mad antics are reserved for her stage routine.

She has tip-toed into television since the demise of her sitcom. She had a small role in “Sex and the City” earlier this year and is providing commentary on the new PBS series “Life 360.” She hasn’t ruled out another stab at having her own TV show.

“I think about it. It’s something I’d like to return to,” Cho said. “I’ve been offered a lot of things, but nothing feels appropriate. It’s more like I want to be in charge of what I’m doing, and I think that makes it easier. I have trouble fitting into roles.”

Cho says she watches little TV but remains disappointed in what she calls a lack of multicultural representation. She is happy to see that gay men are becoming more familiar characters in high-profile shows.

“I have always enjoyed many gay friends,” Cho said. “I’m an activist in the community, and it is something that is really a part of my life. Not just in my career, but it extends to my relationships. It’s very deep.”