Imagine a pre-Wedding Crashers, pre-Hangover, pre-every other romantic comedy where he starred as the jackass best friend Bradley Cooper in hilarious adaptation of Anthony Bourdain’s memoir of a head chef in NYC restaurant. Picture a stellar cast of culinary misfits: Frank Langella, John Cho (Harold & Kumar), Nicholas Brendan (Buffy), John Francis Daley (Freaks & Geeks, Bones), and Jamie King.
Now deal with the bleak apocalyptic reality that this show is on Fox.
In terms of comedic style, it was little ahead of its time - the pilot isn’t the strongest but it progresses from into a world you would never expect was remotely funny. Watch the first season on Hulu (here)
(Yeah, I’m doing the 30-day Tumblr challenge. hopefully, this keeps me posting more)
