The Merrill Howard Kalin Show
Psalmnopsis: A mentally handicapped person is somehow given his own cooking show on the local cable network. The show goes on to be somewhat of a cult hit in the States, but for all the wrong reasons - Merrill Kalin is horrible at cooking. He literally fucks everything up. Completely. If the show were about how to contract salmonella or how to grow new exotic varieties of fungi under your sink, it would be the video holy grail. Although oddly enough, it sort of is. Watch as he teaches you how to ‘cook’ chicken, talk like Yogi Bear, and learn why ‘salad is the most important food because it is the easiest to do’.
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To be honest, I’m inclined to think there’s a bit of genius here. The comedy is there, the framework is there, the intent is there… unfortunately the execution is totally demolished by his obvious brain impairment.
Think of this guy’s routine but with better delivery and execution and who do you get? That’s right, Dave Cook. I have to admit, I’m a bad person because I laughed, but not so much at the absurdity of Merrill Howard Kalin, as I actually laughed because he was genuinely funny.