TV Show - Aug 29, 2022
In order to settle their differences, two celebrities agree to bake-offs or cook-offs, with noted gastronome Joel McHale determining the winner. Whenever the words "Joel McHale" appear - and they have done twice in this story to date, counting the headline - you know something is amiss.
Who among us would allow a former host of E!'s The Soup to settle a dispute, especially the unusual variety of homo celebrities? Wouldn't that be like having Judge Jerry Springer preside over your child custody case?
The cable channel E!, which made Joel McHale a star, is letting him host Celebrity Beef, which premieres Tuesday right after another low-budget show, Celebrity Game Face, hosted by Kevin Hart. Moreover, I am able to confirm that McHale takes the premise of his show as seriously as he did Britney Spears and The View.
Throughout the contest, he mocks everything about it, invents new rules as he goes along, and ultimately decides the winner based on nothing more than sheer arbitrary judgment. Cheryl Hines and Rachael Harris play friendly rivalry while making a cupcake that Joel will enjoy. McHale is just as funny ad-libbing as he is when delivering written punchlines if you're a Joel McHale fan.
E's Celebrity Beef is right on brand! McHale feels on brand with this. Marketing-wise, score, but will you actually want to make it a weekly habit? Celebrity Beef falls unsatisfactorily on the side of the game show, balanced between comedy and talk shows with Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show as its fulcrum. There is a feeling that it should be talkier and - here is my first beef pun - less gamey.
If you consume too many pork rinds or cheese doodles, you are likely to doubt your ability to do so in the future. Only McHale completists may continue watching the series after the first episode.
Possibly, you will be drawn to Ben Higgins and Nick Viall, or Cynthia Bailey and Todd Bridges, or Andy Grammer and Justin Baldoni, or Justin Sylvester and Loni Love, or Dolores Catania and Caroline Manzo, or Missi Pyle and Jeff Lewis, or Nikki and Brie Bella as they "settle" their "beef" with "Joel."
I am not sure why I have his name in quotation marks, but it feels It seems as though Celebrity Beef is a proof of concept: Can Joel McHale transform a cooking show into a Jimmy Fallon-like party game segment? Yes, of course. E! will premiere Celebrity Beef on Tuesday, August 2nd at 10 PM ET.
source:primetimer
