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Review: “COOKING WITH WERNER at the 2010 NYTVF” – The Onion AV Club

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“. . . It may be too out there even for Adult Swim. I just want someone to pick this up and put it on at 3 in the morning, so everyone up at that point will wonder what the hell is going on.”

– THE A.V. CLUB BLOG

“New York Television Festival, Day 3: Everybody hates drama”

By Steve Heisler And Todd VanDerWerff September 23, 2010

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Cooking With Werner
Creators/Point of origin/Running time:
 John Webb, William Maier, and Garth Mueller/Los Angeles/seven minutes
Cast: William Maier, Scott Rodgers, Gian Molina
Program: Comedy
Headline: Finally, a show Scott Tobias will laugh at!
Todd’s take: Cooking With Werner has a one-joke premise. Fortunately, it’s a very funny joke. In it, acclaimed director Werner Herzog (Maier) decides to host a cooking show, wherein he tries to bring his dish closer to the truths of eternity by finding just the right honey. His special guest? Well, that would be Jim Jarmusch (Rodgers). Cooking With Werner sends Herzog on a quest to Peru to get just the right honey, and while I have no idea how this would be a series (Maier suggests Herzog can and will host several different types of TV shows every week), I like how incredibly, incredibly weird it is. Maier’s impression is spot-on, the jokes are all surreal, an advertisement for beer crowds the screen at inopportune moments, and a laugh track punctuates essentially dramatic moments. This is TV made for a very specific audience, but I’m pretty sure I’m in that audience. The only reason I didn’t laugh as hard as I did at some other things was because it was so short. (But I’m definitely tuning in for a future episode Maier pitched wherein Klaus Kinski returns from the dead to terrify and host an automotive repair program with Herzog.) Grade: B+
Network this is perfect for:
 I honestly don’t know. It may be too out there even for Adult Swim. I just want someone to pick this up and put it on at 3 in the morning, so everyone up at that point will wonder what the hell is going on.

Link: http://www.avclub.com/articles/new-york-television-festival-day-3-everybody-hates,45515/

Screening 09.23.10 “Cooking With Werner” @ New York TV Fest

Cooking With (Werner) Herzog
 is screening at the 
2010 New York Television Festival…
Screening in competition for the Independent Film Channel’s Out-Of-The-Box development award: Sept 23 & 24 [info]

Trailer:

NYTVF 2010 Trailer: Cooking With Werner

* Screening review by The Onion A.V. Club: [link]