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Johnnie Excel's appearance (as Johnnie Ellison) in the "Meal or no Meal" segment of Tuesday's Tonight Show with Jay Leno where he drank a squeeze bottle of mayonnaise can be viewed on hulu (starts at 10 minute mark).
Slackerwood has a blog entry about The Hungry Todd Rungy Show. A twelve episode series will be shopped to television networks after the completion of the pilot, which is available on youtube for a limited time. According to creator/director/producer Joshua Riehl, the program was originally intended to be a satire of competitive eating.
DVDs for Man v. Food: Nation are available for purchase on amazon.com and will be released on April 10. A press release says the set will include the 25 episodes previously televised so the two final episodes that will air on April 11 will not be included.
Johnnie Excel announces he will appear in the "Meal or No Meal" segment on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno tonight.
The final new episodes of Man vs. Food: Nation will be televised on April 11: Charlotte, NC at 9 pm eastern and Jackson, MS at 9:30. (It is surprising that the Travel Channel is not making a bigger deal of the series finale.)
CsatingSHP [sic] has a casting call video for a television program about buddies (men only) who participate in eating challenges. (Via "Megamunch" email).
The Jackson, MS episode of Man vs. Food: Nation will debut on April 18. After this program is televised, there will be one remaining new episode of Man vs. Food: Nation (Charlotte, NC).
(semi off-topic) A giant Pac-Man mosaic was created by AC Milan fans holding up colored cards in yesterday's Champions League match versus Barcelona. The mosaic was captioned "Mangiamoli!" ("Let's eat them!") and the ghost Pac-Man was chasing had Barcelona colors.
Randy Santel announces that the episode of Truck Stop Missouri in which he attempted the Big 70 challenge will be televised on the Travel Channel April 19.
Kevin "LA Beast" has uploaded his appearance on TruTv's World Dumbest Performers last night.
CultureMap Austin has an article about The Hungry Todd Rungy Show. The pilot episode of the program can be viewed on youtube. Rungy did not win his most recent contest, Torchy's SpecTACOlar Showdown, held during SXSW.
A chain of theaters in Asheville, Charlotte, and Raleigh, NC will hold eating contests to benefit local food banks on Thursday night before the premier of The Hunger Games after midnight.
With the deadline less than 24 hours away, the "Hungry" competitive eating documentary has reached its Kickstarter funding goal of $10,000.
In tonight's episode of Family Guy, (9 pm on Fox) Peter Griffin trains his son Chris for a hot dog eating contest, necessitating a stay at a weight loss camp where the campers are threatened by a serial killer. (preview video)
There are five days left until the March 13 Kickstarter deadline for the "Hungry" documentary. There is currently about a $2,000 difference between the amount currently pledged and the $10,0000 funding threshold.
Olivia Wilde vs. Chris Farley eating contest called into question
Actress Olivia Wilde (House M. D., Tron: Legacy) relates the following tale from her childhood in the April edition of GQ:
I wanted to be on Saturday Night Live since I was ten. My father took me to a live taping on my birthday. Chris Farley was still in the cast and at the after-party he had a brownie eating contest.
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It became, like, a very valuable, powerful moment in my childhood. Although it was the only eating contest I have ever lost.
This story is either incorrect or Olivia Wilde’s public birthday (March 10, 1984) is inaccurate. Saturday Night Live was never televised live on March 10 during Chris Farley’s tenure as a cast member, which started in fall 1990 and ended in 1995. During that time period March 10 fell on Sunday (1991), Tuesday (1992), Wednesday (1993), Thursday (1994) and Friday (1995).
If a new episode was televised live on Saturday, March 9, 1991, the last hour of the program would have taken place just after midnight on March 10 (when Olivia would have turned seven). No episode was produced on that date; the first live SNL episode of March 1991 was broadcast on March 16.
Olivia Wilde shares a March 10 birthday with Jon Hamm of Mad Men, who was recently caught in an apparent fib about playing baseball at the University of Texas with Roger Clemens.
Screen.yahoo.com has a parody of The Hunger Games trailer titled The Hungry Games.
Splitsider has a breakdown of a fictional eating contest between Liz Lemon of 30 Rock and Ron Swanson of Parks and Recreation. NBC.com has a video titled Swanson vs. Food
A 1919 spaghetti eating contest between Yankees outfielder Ping Bodie and an ostrich billed by the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce as the world's greatest eater will appear in the upcoming book The Baseball Hall of Shame: The Best of Blooperstown book.
Kevin Kolack, a New York City based actor, announces there will be an upcoming television program about children participating in competitive eating.
The new poll asks how you think the upcoming competitive eating documentary "Hungry" will be distributed, which is now 2/3 of the way to its funding goal of $10K.
Adam Richman announces he just completed his final voiceover for Man vs. Food and that there are two untelevised episodes of the program: Jackson, MS and Charlotte, NC.
Tenth anniversary of The Glutton Bowl
Today is the tenth anniversary of The Glutton Bowl, which was televised on Fox on February 21, 2002
Glutton Bowl links
- Competitors list and results from a Japanese website
- Program recap by RealityNewsOnline
- Video of final round where food was cow brains (with Korean subtitles)
- Video of egg contest round won by Badlands Booker
- Glutton Bowl preview by Buck Wolf focusing on Cookie Jarvis, Don Lerman, Kevin Lipsitz and Charles Hardy
- Recent picture of Cookie Jarvis, Don Lerman and Kevin Lipsitz on TheLermanReport.com
- IFOCE top 68 from March 2002
Of the 34 competitors, I think only 4 (Takeru Kobayashi, Eric “Badlands” Booker, “Gentleman” Joe Menchetti and Jed Donahue) remain currently active in competitive eating. Three others (Don Lerman, Bill “El Wingador” Simmons and Lester Tucker) have competed recently but announced retirement.
Factoids about Glutton Bowl competitors
- One of the two female Glutton Bowl participants, Lorraine Arrol, would marry Kevin Lipsitz
- Lester Tucker won 16 straight quail egg eating contests in Texas, but announced retirement last year.
- Jed Donahue ate one hot dog in the 2006 Nathan’s finals
- Chris Eyre would be arrested for allegedly assaulting his wife in New York City before the 2003 Nathan’s finals. He was reportedly angry at her for kissing William “The Refrigerator” Perry, who competed in the 2003 finals.
- It is almost the 20th anniversary of The Simpsons episode having 9 Major League Baseball players as guest stars (originally televised on February 20, 1992 on Fox). Jose Canseco, one of the baseball players in the epsisode, was scheduled to face off against Glutton Bowl participant Bill “El Wingador” Simmons in a celebrity boxing match in 2009, but Canseco pulled out.
The kickstarter page for the competitive eating documentary "Hungry" is now 2/3 ($6610) of the way to its funding goal of $10,000 after receiving a pledge of $5000 which will give its donor executive producer billing.
Youtube has a video of the entire "Suzilla: The Mouth That Roars" pilot episode that was televised on Planet Green in December.
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