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Margaret Cho doesn’t plan on attending too many upscale events this summer.

The 25-year-old comedian expects to take in the Moscow Philharmonic’s July 11 Hollywood Bowl concert with Van Cliburn and plans to see “Sunset Boulevard,” but she says she’ll also spend time catching rock concerts, watching reality-based television and attending monster truck events.

Though she runs in “young Hollywood circles,” Cho has no plans to hit the Roxbury or the Viper Room. “I’m kind of low-end glamour,” she says, smiling. “I can turn it out with the best of them (but) it’s too obvious. It’s too, like, what’s expected of you if you live here.”

Instead, Cho’s planning on a kitschy summer of “tiki luau parties,” complete with surf music and limbo, in the back yard of the Hollywood Hills home she shares with four roommates. It’ll also be a summer filled with infomercials, “Melrose Place” reruns and celebrity-watching at the Farmer’s Market, an activity Cho continues to enjoy even now that she’s recognizable as a successful stand-up comedian and the star of her own upcoming television series, “All American Girl,” which will air on ABC starting this fall.

She also may go to the exhibition of American art from the ‘80s at the UCLA Armand Hammer Museum of Art, partly out of nostalgia for the recent past.

Of course, she’s also planning on some serious fun.

“There are things that I do that are legitimately. . . .”

Unironic?

“Yeah,” Cho says. “It’s hard to think of what they are.”

She plans on taking in quite a few unironic summer movies, including “Wyatt Earp,” “The Mask” and “Natural Born Killers,” though she’s undecided on “Wolf,” saying that the only true wolf for her is David Naughton, “who was ‘An American Werewolf in London.’ ”

She’s also looking forward to Disney’s “The Lion King.” “I know I’ll love it,” she says. “I always cry. (Disney animation) makes me very emotional.”

Cho’s also a rock fan, and she’s planning on going to this summer’s “Lollapalooza” concert, where she’s looking forward to seeing Smashing Pumpkins and the Beastie Boys. She’ll skip shows by older rockers like the Eagles and the Grateful Dead, but a Michael Bolton concert apparently has enough kitsch value for her to consider.

The concert she’s most excited about though, is the June 11 KROQ “Weenie Roast” at Irvine Meadows, which will feature such alternative rock bands as Boingo, the Pretenders, Pavement, Green Day and her “absolute favorite band in the whole world,” the Afghan Whigs. Sandra Bernhard’s late June one-woman show at the La Jolla Playhouse’s Mandell Weiss Theatre is also a must-see for Cho.

She jokes about the July 16 Three Tenors concert at Dodger Stadium, with Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras. “Well, I would go see the two tenors I know,” she says, apparently more familiar with Pavarotti and Domingo than Carreras.

On the serious side, Cho will be hard at work on her new sitcom, which will focus on the cultural conflicts between the Korean American Cho and her character’s traditional Korean family. She plans on taking a short trip to New Orleans and possibly going to San Francisco to visit her family, but she won’t be going on the road as a stand-up comic.

“Since I travel so much for my job, vacation for me is staying home with the phone unplugged,” she says.

Cho will also be busy dealing with one of the downsides of summer in Los Angeles--bugs.

“I live in a wooded area, so there’s a lot of insects,” Cho says. “I have used so much (Raid) that I turned my house into Three Mile Island. I have to find another solution. I think I could . . . talk them out of the house, make them realize that they’re not in the house by choice, make them realize that it’s OK to leave and reclaim the outdoors.

“It’s going to be a really good summer,” Cho says. “You can really taste the air. It’s oppressive and kind of gross.” She smiles. “I won’t have to smoke as many cigarettes.”