PrintIn Videos: Saturday Night Live Parody of Top Chef
"A Sicilian empanada with marshmallow Peep foam."
Last weekend's Saturday Night Live, with guest host Christopher Walken, skewered 'Top Chef.' The skit features "Wylie DelMario," a "weird judge-guy who we tell you owns a restaurant somewhere," faux-hawk jokes, and the contestants reinventing a deep-dish pizza using beets, couscous, frozen yogurt, medicine, a paper bag, stale Peeps, and Padma's gum.
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Saturday Night Live Parody of Top Chef
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18 Comments:
Love it!
celticjig1 at 12:40PM on 04/08/08
Everyone knows the way to make Marshmallow Peep foam is to microwave a peep until it explodes and covers the microwave with peep guts (a.k.a. peep foam). Mmmm, the smell of burnt sugar....
HalfMoonCookie at 1:02PM on 04/08/08
"it wouldn't be top chef without a fauxhawk". So, so true.
anadequatenovel at 1:12PM on 04/08/08
funny, but christopher walken's reading off of the teleprompter was pretty annoying.
carriebwc at 1:42PM on 04/08/08
did anyone catch "my emulsion isn't seperating."
evilchefmom at 1:56PM on 04/08/08
I have to agree with carriebwc about the reading off the teleprompter. And what is it with young chefs and faux hawks? I still don't think the skit was as funny as Top Chef however. I just love to see egos get deflated on the real show. To bad Richard hasn't had his bubble popped yet.
Dave the Barbarian Chef at 2:01PM on 04/08/08
I'm so glad you posted this! I was looking for it all day yesterday. I agree about Walken's awful teleprompter reading, but I thought it was a fun skit.
yumsugar at 2:18PM on 04/08/08
I somehow get the idea that SNL did the whole reading off of the telepromter on purpose. I don't know why they think it's so funny to see him do that, but I have to believe that it was done intentionally.
jonfoxx at 2:52PM on 04/08/08
Did she say cook a pizza or cook beets and couscous?
That's exactly how I feel watching some of the challenges - like the "only one aisle of the grocery store" quickfire. They need to stick more to the "create a dish along this theme" challenges rather than "cook fish for Eric Ripert using only a zippo and tin foil."
palmsey at 5:18PM on 04/08/08
They were ALL reading from the teleprompter. What's up with that??? Yes, I know I'm really old (viewer from SNL's first five years), but when did they stop doing it improv-style? Now I remember why I stopped watching...
But I loved the faux-hawk reference, and the ridiculous ingredients. Almost like the real Top Chef! And some of the lines were pretty funny. Especially the separating emulsion!
LoCo at 7:40PM on 04/08/08
I thought if was "great" fun.
Boscompb at 9:21AM on 04/09/08
What I'd love to get my hands on are the old Dan Aykroyd parodies of Julia Child... now THAT was THE classic SNL-take on food-related TV!
LoCo at 1:50PM on 04/09/08
Apparently, Christopher Walken is interested in food, as evidenced by this post and video on SE.
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dvchurch at 1:59PM on 04/09/08
Thanks for posting this! I was searching for this video everywhere but thought it was taken down. Love the Marshmallow Peep foam line too!
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Chew on That at 3:59PM on 04/09/08
Great!
Christina at 5:20PM on 04/09/08
@ Loco... Snl has always used a script. Whether or not they always followed it, SNL has never been purely improvisational, even in the first five years.
pbisNOTmyname at 1:50AM on 04/10/08
Hilarious. They have really got it down, right to the faux hawk and Padma's nonchalance at giving the chefs a seemingly impossible task. Fun.
jennyf at 11:27AM on 04/12/08
whirrrrrrrrrr......Balushi is rolling over in his grave...seeing how bad this show has gone downhill....where is the HUMOUR?....where is the satire?...where is the IMAGINATION?....why am I even missing Chevy Chase (and you're not!)
CantorShmuli at 1:47PM on 04/14/08