ProWrestling.com reports on a pizza eating contest between MVP and Matt Hardy on the recent WWE pay per view:

MVP guarantees he’s going to win this competition. Tazz goes over the rules. He says they have two minutes to eat as much pizza as they can. They set the time, and they are off.

Time expires and MVP didn’t even eat one pie. Matt Hardy ate two. After the competition Matt Hardy threw up on MVP and left.

Maybe Pat Phibin can sue the WWE for violating his intellectual property 😉

update A slideshow is available on the WWE website.

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The scene from “The Great Outdoors” in which John Candy attempts a 96 ounce steak is available on youtube at http://youtube.com/watch?v=qGhBsFZWUks.

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From The Austin Film Festival blog:

Join Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg on October 13, at 2:30 p.m.for clips and stories from their cult hit Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and find out more about the soon to be released Harold & Kumar 2. See how this writing duo has taken the buddy comedy to a higher level and made the transition from writers to writer/directors.

The duo recently wrapped production on their directorial debut, the much-anticipated sequel in the Harold & Kumar franchise set to be released in early 2008. As producers, they are currently in development on All You Can Eat, a comedy set in the world of competitive eating.

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PRNewsWire.com has a press release about the second MLE event to be televised on Spike TV:

Spike TV and Major League Eating present JOEY CHESTNUT vs. KOBAYASHI (and the other top eaters in the world) in chicken wing (Buffalo Wild Wings(R)) and potato wedge consumption in Las Vegas, Tuesday, October 9 from the Fremont Street Experience in downtown Las Vegas.

This one hour special, MLE Chowdown: Wedges And Wings, will air Thursday, October 18 at 11:00pm ET/PT on Spike TV.

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Joining Chestnut and Kobayashi will be the top Major League Eaters in the world including Patrick Bertoletti (winner of Spike TV’s St. 2007 Patrick’s Day Chowdown), Tim “Eater X” Janus, “Humble” Bob Shoudt, Richard LeFevre, Juliet Lee, and Hall Hunt.

This event marks the second MLE on Spike TV. The first, The St. Patrick’s Day Chowdown, featuring corned beef and cabbage, green donuts, and jalapenos, drew a robust 739,000 viewers on March 17.

The press release says that 16 eaters will compete, leaving 8 unnamed.

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(From Levi Oliver) A documentary about Levi Oliver’s competitive eating career has been completed and a website for it has been set up at http://eatinglevi.com/ A trailer is available.

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This message appeared recently on the old Yahoo group:

Hi,

I just joined your group. I am currently making a documentary film on competitve eating and it would be amazing if I could include insight from a female perspective. If anyone is interested in helping us with content, I would really appreciate it!

Thanks,

Darren Sikorski

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Beautiful Brian has uploaded highlights from the Major League Eaters DVD to youtube (direct link)

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TV8Ch reports that Gal Sone’s appearance on “kinsuma” last Friday received a 22.8% audience share. A 2ch commenter believes this is an all time record for a Japanese competitive eating program, breaking the mark of 22.7% set by Food Battle Club 2 in 2001. The program was not a contest; Gal Sone underwent a through examination to determine what enables her to eat so much and stay thin.

22.8% 21:00 – 22: Masahiro’s 48 TBS Nakai [kinsuma]! Disturbance ten thousand height special!!
Gal 曽 root celebration great success!!!!
Power of the audience rating queen was exhibited, that that much thing of the girl alone probably will be elucidated, seriously scientifically the program which is said, overwhelms other things, fearfully the [ru] should!! Mystery of the flesh of the gal 曽 root exceeded the Egypt mystery!!!!

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An old Alka Seltzer commercial in which a veteran competitive eater provides advice to a novice can be viewed at http://youtube.com/watch?v=zsvzr4ahT6M

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A segment from “Inside the NBA” about Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s 11 pound “Ye Olde 96er” burger can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWdRnqoQLIU After Kate Stelnick is mentioned as the first person the finish the burger in under three hours, Charles Barkley inquires about her appearance. (Embedded video after the jump)

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The episode of “The Office” in which the staff competes in a hot dog eating contest will be rerun on NBC at 9pm eastern tonight.

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The pumpkin contest between teams from the United States and Japan was broadcast today and R Suzuki has a blog entry about the program

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The calendar for Japanese channel TBS says that the pumpkin contest between teams from Japan and the United States will be broadcast on September 8 at 7 pm (Japanese time)

19:00 [yaredeki]! The worldwide [ze] it is from the worldwide large challenge ~ enormous pumpkin enormous rammer to the refrigerator of the king the [bu] to eat, exhaust special

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From Beautiful Brian’s bits & pieces:

It has been brought to my attention that certain IFOCE members more than likely pertaining to the the top 25 have been sent emails regarding their availabilty for an upcoming SPIKE tv special in Las Vegas which would span the course of 3 or 4 days during the early part of Oct.You would need to take a week off from work. Sponsors will cover your airfare and hotel expenses along with $1000 spending money. Sounds like U.S open all over again, but this time with no mention of lottery picks

More information can be found in the comments of this megamunch post.

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The Sault Star reports that Keith Knight died Wednesday night from brain cancer at 51:

Knight is perhaps best known for his role as Larry Finklestein, a counsellor-in-training in Meatballs, the 1979 Canadian comedy that marked his feature film debut and cast Saturday Night Live alum Bill Murray in his first starring role.

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Meatballs, budgeted at $1.6 million and shot in Haliburton, earned more than $25 million in the first six weeks of its release, making it at the time the top-grossing Canadian film of all time.

Knight, who ate more than 100 hot dogs during filming of a hot-dog-eating contest, described Meatballs as “American Graffiti goes to camp.”

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The Brooklyn Papers has an article about “Fat March” participant Will Millender who won a pizza eating contest in Brooklyn.

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Last night’s episode of the weight loss reality show “Fat March” featured a competitive eater named Will Millender. An article and blog entry about Will appeared in May.

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The Clearfield High School football team’s attempt to eat Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub’s 100+ pound burger will appear on Country Fried Home Videos (epsisode title is “Slightly Used” on Country Music Television this weekend (all times eastern):

Friday Aug. 17th at 8:30 pm
Saturday Aug. 18th at 1:00 am
Saturday Aug. 18th at 7:30 pm
Sunday Aug. 19th at 1:30 am

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Bill Simmons (the Sports Guy) of ESPN.com lists Joey Chestnut’s victory as one of the few high points in a bleak summer for sports:

It’s impossible to rank these events from most depressing to least depressing, so I won’t even try. Making matters worse, the enjoyable moments have been few and far between. Basically, it’s been Joey Chestnut’s toppling Kobayashi, Stephon Marbury’s surreal Mike’d Up appearance and the actor who played Reggie Jackson in The Bronx Is Burning’s inadvertently looking like C. Thomas Howell in Soul Man.

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From a Chip Simpson email

I just wanted to let everyone know that tommorow (July 31) on Sirius radio, on the Stretch show, Eater X and Crazy Legs Conti will be having a sanctioned eating contest against one of the hosts Bower. The show airs from 10 AM EST- 2 PM EST. I am not sure what the food will be but I heard it advertised tonight on the Devore and Diane show. Hope someone can get a recap.

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In honor of today’s opening of The Simpsons Movie and Saturday’s handless pie eating contest, here is an excerpt from The Simpsons from a 1994 episode about (attempted) pie eating without use of hands:

Bart: OK, but on my way, I’m going to be doing this: [windmills arms]
If you get hit, it’s your own fault.

Lisa: OK, then I’m going to start kicking air like this. [kicks]
And if any part of you should fill that air, [kicks] it’s _your_ own fault.
[they walk towards each other, then start fighting]

Marge: Oh, I better go check that out. Now Homer, don’t you eat this pie!

Homer: OK…[Marge leaves] All right, pie, I’m just going to do this.
[chomps air] And if you get eaten, it’s your own fault!
[walks towards pie, chomping air, and hits head on range head]
Ow! Oh, my — aw, to hell with this. [grabs pie, eats it]

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Video clips of Erik Denmark appearing on local news programs to promote the Chinook Winds Ribs contest and the “Stand by Me” pie eating contest are available on his blog. Carlene & Rich LeFevre also appear in the Chinook Winds video.

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After the DVD release of “Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating” about Crazy Legs Conti, the new poll asks what top 20 IFOCE eater should be the next subject of a documentary.

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InsideBayArea.com describes the plot of “Deep Fried Cheese”, a new play to open in San Francisco next month:

Ingersoll-Thorp wrote the play, a comedy about relationships and competitive eating, and also directs it. Kalish stars as a guy whose penchant for entering eating contests doesn’t sit all that well with his girlfriend, who is going vegan.

“I think Tore wrote this play to torture me,” Kalish says. “I eat a bunch of hot dogs really fast, and spaghetti. I also catch Vienna sausages in my mouth and spray Cheez Whiz into my mouth. I wrap an Oreo in salami. It’s pretty intense. Eating hot dogs fast is disgusting.”

But Kalish is quick to point out that amid the spectacle of all this eating is a romantic comedy with a “strong emotional center.”

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From crazylegsconti.com/plate.php

In conjunction with the DVD we have a couple great events that you may be interested in. On July 24th at the DVD release will will screen some scenes in Taste-O-Vision, where what you see me eat on screen, the audience gets to eat (color coded jelly beans for hot dog, oyster, butter, etc). It is also a feature on the DVD.

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Tuesday, July 24th DVD release screening in Taste-O-Vison, Millennium Theater 7:33 PM (66 East 4th street between 2nd ave Bowery). After-Party @ Coyote Ugly (1st ave and 9th street).

Conti also reports that he broke Sonya’s popcorn record from the 2005 MTV movie awards contest at the Las Vegas Home Media Expo and that Corey Feldman will be the head judge at Saturday’s pie eating contest.

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