Ansari, whose new comedy album and special arrives soon and will be reviewed here,
made light of eating samples presented to the panelists during their program. He repeatedly reacted to unintentional slips of the tongue by Chang, saying
they would start race wars or other explosive activities. Chang, Murphy and
Ansari had recently traveled together to Tokyo to do a piece for GQ, so Ansari
was able to needle the others at times without genuinely upsetting them.
Food
world personality Anthony Bourdain closed the Extra Mooga program of events as
sunset neared, attracting the biggest and loudest crowd of any of the programs,
garnering the most rock star-like status from the audience’s reactions.
Bourdain had to play ringmaster by fielding audience questions for his entire
program and the back-and-forth was rowdy, finding him raising his voice a lot
to keep control of the proceedings.
This
produced some highlights, but also a lot of not-so-thoughtful exchanges, like one
question about who Bourdain “would like to deep fry” and another asking him if
he had ever “sexted.” In one highlight, Bourdain did answer an eight-year-old
girl’s query about how to cook unicorn. He also engaged in rants about favorite
targets like the James Beard Foundation, and of course, foodies and hipsters. “Chefs
are not rock stars,” Bourdain said, but in this program, it certainly seemed
Bourdain was getting treated like one, and maybe even playing to that a bit.
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