Nooooooo! Someone at C4 has decided to give super-irritating supersizer Sue Perkins another food gig and she's accompanied by a sidekick even more sickeningly smug than Giles Coren. Yes, you guessed it, Huge Furry Wittering-balls.
In a comedy-culinary partnership about as tantalising to the tastebuds as a shit sandwich, Perkins is hosting a new comedy food quiz in which Wittering-balls and a celebrity must pit their wits against a guest captain and celeb foodie (The Big Food Fight, 10pm, C4, 8 September). I'm not sure how great an idea it was in the first place to mix comedy and food in a quiz blender but this reeked of desperation from the words: "Let's find out if they don't know their artichokes from their elbows." (Aha ha... ha).
In the first in the series, Furry was joined by Charlotte Church, and guest captain James Martin by chefette Ching-He Huang. Everyone looked embarrassed even before the openly gay Perkins started with innuendo (announcing she may have to "turn" for Martin, then that she'd "turned back" for Church).
Sadly she wasn't the only one lowering the tone. In round one, during which each contestant had to pointlessly list as many pastas, oils, traditional vegetables or Chinese takeaway dishes as they could, we had Furry tittering that spaghetti puttanesca meant "hooker's pasta". Cue laboured banter about dishes being "knocked up".
Then Martin took advantage of the fact he was tied to his team-mate in the "Does the left hand know?" round (the right-handed chefs having to rely on their partners' left hands to chop, mix and put together ingredients to make burgers) to proclaim he had an itch in an attempt to get her to scratch his crotch. Suffice to say, she wasn't laughing.
There were some funny bits in the guess-the-year round we saw a clip of Gordon Ramsay from 1996 claiming that he wasn't a celebrity chef, he was a cook (just one letter out then) - not enough to save this Horlicks of a quiz, though.
Perkins may fancy herself as the food quiz's answer to Never Mind the Buzzcocks' Simon Amstell. But this was much closer to the original Sex Pistols song.
In a comedy-culinary partnership about as tantalising to the tastebuds as a shit sandwich, Perkins is hosting a new comedy food quiz in which Wittering-balls and a celebrity must pit their wits against a guest captain and celeb foodie (The Big Food Fight, 10pm, C4, 8 September). I'm not sure how great an idea it was in the first place to mix comedy and food in a quiz blender but this reeked of desperation from the words: "Let's find out if they don't know their artichokes from their elbows." (Aha ha... ha).
In the first in the series, Furry was joined by Charlotte Church, and guest captain James Martin by chefette Ching-He Huang. Everyone looked embarrassed even before the openly gay Perkins started with innuendo (announcing she may have to "turn" for Martin, then that she'd "turned back" for Church).
Sadly she wasn't the only one lowering the tone. In round one, during which each contestant had to pointlessly list as many pastas, oils, traditional vegetables or Chinese takeaway dishes as they could, we had Furry tittering that spaghetti puttanesca meant "hooker's pasta". Cue laboured banter about dishes being "knocked up".
Then Martin took advantage of the fact he was tied to his team-mate in the "Does the left hand know?" round (the right-handed chefs having to rely on their partners' left hands to chop, mix and put together ingredients to make burgers) to proclaim he had an itch in an attempt to get her to scratch his crotch. Suffice to say, she wasn't laughing.
There were some funny bits in the guess-the-year round we saw a clip of Gordon Ramsay from 1996 claiming that he wasn't a celebrity chef, he was a cook (just one letter out then) - not enough to save this Horlicks of a quiz, though.
Perkins may fancy herself as the food quiz's answer to Never Mind the Buzzcocks' Simon Amstell. But this was much closer to the original Sex Pistols song.
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