Henry Cho

Henry Cho is an American stand-up comedian from Knoxville, Tennessee, known for a clean act that avoids profanity and objectionable material and for drawing on his experience growing up Asian American in the South. He began appearing on television in the late 1980s and early 1990s, on programs such as The Arsenio Hall Show, Bob Hope's Young Comedians Special and A&E's An Evening at the Improv, and took guest roles on sitcoms including Designing Women and The New WKRP in Cincinnati. In 1994 NBC hired him to host a revamped Friday Night Videos called Friday Night. His film work includes a starring role in Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation (1992), McHale's Navy (1997), Say It Isn't So (2001) and Material Girls (2006). He has performed at the Grand Ole Opry more than 100 times and in 2023 became the first Asian American invited to join the Opry.