“Cooking with Christopher Walken” is the first FOD Exclusive I can remember that isn’t some sort of semi-scripted parody. It’s also quite possibly the most compelling and I need to be able to set up a season pass on my DVR like yesterday.
It. Has. Everything. A Walken welcome? Check. A Richard Belzer (he of morning show sodomy joke fame) guest appearance? Check. Two mute blonde assistants who do almost all the heavy lifting? Check. A trip to the petting zoo? Check. Offbeat waterside conversation, Hawaiian cooking shirts, a mandolin player, and Chris confirming that tomatoes are actually a fruit? Quadruple check.
Sit back, enjoy, and prepare to hate whatever you’ll be doing the rest of the day.
You don’t have a jet pack?
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Elise has a man voice. You can’t have it all, Elise.
I like to believe that Walken says, “We need to get to the petting zoo”, at least once a day.
I’m pretty sure I could watch Walken do anything and be entertained. He could have a show where he just clipped his toenails, and it would be better than anything ABC has on air.
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Honestly, I’m wracking my brain, and I can’t think of a premise starring Walken I wouldn’t watch. There could be a show, where he punched my grandmother in the stomach repeatedly, and I’d tune in every day.
If Christopher Walken told me my parents had been killed in a plane crash, I’m pretty sure I’d laugh.
It’s nearly impossible to pick a favorite moment out of this because HOLY SHIT, but I can’t stop laughing at how, during dinner, Richard Belzer is desperately trying to get Walken’s attention to tell him a story, but Walken is completely fixated on the blonde model’s inability to open the bottle of wine. AMAZING.
Love Belzer asking the cow if it’s a man or a woman.
Glad to see that Robert Palmer’s back-up dancers are still getting work in showbiz…
His name is CHRISTOPHER. Christopher, dammit.
This reminds me of Jerry Seinfeld’s “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee”.