Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver get South Park'd

By Patrick McLennan
( What's on TV )
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Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver get South Park'd
Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver get South Park'd

Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver are so successful in the US they've been caricatured in the latest series of South Park. Gordon is introduced when Stan's dad becomes obsessed with food television. In a desperate attempt to cure his father Cartman dresses as Gordon, but the mimicry is so successful that a professional camera crew arrive to film him in an episode of Hell’s Kitchen Nightmares Iron Top Chef Cafeteria Throwdown Ultimate Cookoff Challenge. Meanwhile, a tearful, whimpering Jamie Oliver takes to the stage to compete with a host of TV chefs, forcing Randy to make some serious decisions about his marriage and his career in food... The episode screens on Comedy Central on Sunday, November 21 at 10pm, although you can watch a clip of Cartman as Gordon HERE. WARNING: the clip contains swearing.

Patrick McLennan
Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.