Top Challenge: Top Chef Quickfire
It's hard to watch competitive reality television without thinking to yourself "I could do that." But what's even harder, as Gabe and Lindsay learned this week, is to watch competitive reality television and then actually try to do that. Watch as they attempt to complete the most recent Top Chef "Quickfire Challenge" for a panel of culinary luminaries including The L Magazine's bar reviewer, Edith Zimmerman, Top Chef blogger for The Huffington Post, Jane McGivney, and Max Silvestri.
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Posted by Gabe at 5:04 PM in Reality TV, Top Challenge
Tags: Top Chef
So far nothing on this site has been even close to entertaining to me and this wa by far the most unfunny thing I have seen in a long time. Dry humor is one thing not being funny at all is another.
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you're out of your mind. this was very funny.
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dammit dad
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there's some much friggin' fluff on this site that everytime a post goes up it sounds like a wet fart.
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Brililant. More of this please.
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I'd like to see a dancing with the stars competition next please.
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you guys are awesome. this is perfect.
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I like reading you guys, but I don't like watching you guys (or reading about you guys watching Derrick Comedy or A.D. Miles). I don't like three things.
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Oooh, can't wait to see you guys cater an animal themed dinner for 200 people!
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now you're talkin! this one made me laugh lots. well done guys.
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make it work
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tihs was better than that habortion of a soap opera satire that you poseted yesterday
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I like some things and I do not like some other things.
I really miss the low-key competitiveness of "Ready Seat Cook." A blender! You could win a blender!
I like blenders.
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When I first found this website, I thought it was really funny, particularly when joined to the notion that it was probably written by some angry mid-western cube dweller (the mid-western part confirmed when, provoked by his aggressive anonymity, I looked up the domain registration [which was not anonymous at that point], to learn it was written by some guy named Gabe in Ann Arbor).
Then his girlfriend broke up with him or something and he got almost unrelentingly hostile, and it got less funny.
And then he started doing a lot of Leno-ish wacky CNN headline commentary, and it got less funny still.
The he got a job at Gawker, was unmasked (inevitably), and it became clear that this site was not made in his spare time but actually represented his *ambition* to become a *professional blogger*, and it pretty much stopped being funny altogether. And it became a little sad.
And then the site became only the dregs left over from his day blogging professionally at Gawker, and it became sad and boring.
And then Gawker started publishing weird beefcake photos of him, which are certainly not ironic and did not seem at all in keeping with this nature of this site an inexplicably sent Gawker commentators into a lather like the fat girls in the high school cafeteria that they are, and it became sadder and even a little annoying.
And then I found myself sitting here writing a very long comment on this blog and felt ashamed.
And it needs to be mentioned that a beard is very, very rarely a good look on anyone, and certainly not on a Jew is in his late 20s.
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disagree 100%. a beard is almost always a good look. gabe included.
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I for one kind of love this site. So haters to the left, or whatever it is they say on the internet.
P.S. Whoooooo else is having problems logging in??
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sorry about that! not sure why it's all tricky, but i'm going to get to work on it. you get the confirmation email thing going?
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I had already registered before, but I think the problem was traced to all the wireless I steal from my neighbors and the fact that it never works.
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I can't believe you guys cut the part where Gabe tried to stab me.
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I agree, and yes I was also having trouble logging in until I realized there was a confirmation email.
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as a Top Chef groupie, this was hilarious, plus i have a big crush now on gabe. i would eat his asparagus anytime.
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i am ANGRY. yes this was a joke but there was something real here too. lindsay should have won. i dont' care if jane didn't get to have her own stick. her food was crative and original. and efficient. salad on a stick? probably kids would eat it, i would eat it and I hate veggies!!! clearly i'm rooting for lindsay. i hope they do this again.
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People who don't think this is funny should be banned from the Internet.
Also, Lindsay got robbed. I don't even have to taste the food to know how much better Lindsay's was. She used so many more techniques!
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And she had a reduction, which is always important on Top Chef.
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Children would have stabbed one another and themselves with those skewers though.
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Favorite new website. Hilarious.
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"...preferably in a bowl...."
I thought it was very funny - and even more important, a spot-on parody of Top Chef.
Slicing thin is totally a technique. And I loved wiping the paper plate. Oh hell, I loved the whole thing.
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guess what happens when you run a search for god on this site?
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Hi! Welcome, me, to Videogum comments! The vignette behind Gabe (martial arts trophy, blender, two inedibly-large-looking carrots) during his "interview" parts is beautiful. Big ups to whoever came up with that and big ups to teh cameraman, too!
When one of you broke character and started laughing, I was very angry, like many of your viewers who commented above. Very angry. But by the end where you all laugh in spite of yourselves, it made me smile at the computer TV (the screen) and then laugh, too. Good job, guys.
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