Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Paula Deen on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me


This gem of an "interview" aired on my all time favorite radio show, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, about a year ago. But I just thought of it again yesterday.

In this clip, Peter and all the panelists take turns verbally gawking at the high-fat recipes in Paula's oeuvre. Though certainly entertaining, the whole affair is sort of weird and fetishistic. But where it could get a little uncomfortable, Paula steps in and turns it right around.

Take this exchange, for instance. One panelist asks what could be a smug I'm-making-fun-on-you (and-also-limiting-your-identity) question about her new furniture line:

"How do you deep fry an ottoman?"

And instead of responding with any kind of defense, hardy-har, or eye-rolly comment, the witty and utterly self-aware Paula says:

"Oh it's easy honey, you just dip it in egg first."

Love.

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