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Face it, it\u2019s too late to go back and live your life out loud like late-night cable TV show host Action Bronson. But at least you can party with the barbarian when you get home from work.<\/p>\n
The voluminous, 34-year-old Queens, New York chef-turned-rapper-turned-late-night-variety-show-host is having more fun in 2018 than any of us. Bronson\u2019s new half-hour show, \u201cThe Untitled Action Bronson Show<\/a>\u201d on\u00a0Viceland,<\/a>\u00a0the cable TV channel \u2014 just wrapped up its first full season in February, with some 60 shows under its immense belt.<\/p>\n The guests were legendary: musician Wyclef Jean, designer Marc Ecko, actors Michael Rappaport and Rosie Perez, chefs Jacques Papin and Gail Simmons, and on and on. Former talk show host Sally Jesse Raphael stole a white truffle in one episode. Actress Debi Mazar hit a blunt. So did her husband.<\/p>\n Yet all of the past and present stars appearing in the first season are subordinate to Bronson, who anchors each show as an authentic, f-bomb throwing, loquacious, wasted ringleader with a skull tattoo and a huge red beard. Quaffing down natural wines, hitting blunts and taking dabs, he is Falstaff from Shakespeare \u2014 the type of character described in Hunter F. Thompson\u2019s \u201cFear and Loathing in Las Vegas\u201d as \u201ca high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production.\u201d He even hand-feeds the audience gourmet food his world-class guest chefs prepare. In short, Bronson embodies the ancient Greek archetype of a sanguine personality \u2014 and we weep for his cardiologist.<\/p>\n But most of all, Bronson is 100 percent authentic, which makes \u201cThe Untitled Action Bronson Show\u201d fresh amid the more calculating late-night stable.\u00a0The New York Times called it<\/a>\u00a0\u201cmerry chaos.\u201d\u00a0Vanity Fair noted<\/a>\u00a0Bronson\u2019s \u201cimmense charm.\u201d<\/p>\n PHOTO courtesy Viceland<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cUntitled\u201d channels both Bronson\u2019s maximalism and his digressive tendencies. He reportedly warned any corporate lawyers who might have rules for the show, \u201cDon\u2019t f*cking tell nobody nothing.\u201d He never studies up for an interview, but rather leans on his chutzpah to carry him through. Meanwhile, his veteran producers cue up chefs to cook food, find local and vintage bands to play music, and stock the set with a variety of oddball attractions like mime troupes, bike polo teams or the New York craft club \u201cCraftJam.\u201d<\/p>\n The unconventional variety show \u2014 which was shot over two days each week in Vice\u2019s Williamsburg, New York offices at the Munchies kitchen \u2014 distinctly avoids the usual celebrities on the publicity circuit in favor of \u201cthrowback Thursday\u201d types like Mazar and Perez. It\u2019s deliberately not topical and has a cardinal rule: \u201cDefinitely no politics.\u201d<\/p>\n \u202aYou\u2019re not really going to learn how to cook anything watching \u201cUntitled,\u201d though you may absorb some food knowledge via Bronson\u2019s constant asides. For example, we learned something about his preference for \u201cnatural wines,\u201d which are made without additives or filtering.<\/p>\n Bronson is also additive-free, and comfortable in his skin in a way few of his guests or his audience members can claim to be. That\u2019s probably because there\u2019s nothing about the hosting job he hasn\u2019t tackled before in some form. Born Ariyan Arslani to a Jewish mother and Muslim father, Arslani was already a gourmet fire-flame chef when he broke his leg in the kitchen and started devoting more time to rapping.<\/p>\n Diving deep into food, sports and \u201880s and \u201890s pop culture references, the self-effacing brag rapper went from emulating Ghostface Killah of the Wu Tang Clan to doing verses with the guy \u2014 part of a meteoric rise that aligned him with The Alchemist, Odd Future and Wiz Khalifa<\/a>. He played Coachella in 2013 and toured New Zealand with Kendrick Lamar in 2014. He released this third LP \u201cMr. Wonderful\u201d in 2015 and fourth \u201cBlue Chips 7000\u201d in 2017. All the touring cemented his comfortability improvising at the center of a live whirlwind.<\/p>\n Bronson is no stranger to the art of producing good video either \u2014 first on the web under his own show \u201cAction in the Kitchen,\u201d then later under web TV producers Lauren Cynamon and Chris Grosso, with whom he did the travel show \u201cF*ck, That\u2019s Delicious.\u201d Bronson possesses a savant\u2019s knack for watchable TV \u2014 and that often means balls-to-the-wall, unvarnished freestyle raps and digressions, delivered via an attitude immune to embarrassment.<\/p>\n Watchers may wonder in amazement, \u201cHow can this foul-mouthed brute covered in tattoos be interviewing gorgeous women like pastry chef Rebecca DeAngelis who bake him\u00a0cookies<\/a>\u00a0alongside the scions of high cuisine?\u201d One phrase comes to mind: \u201cOnce you\u2019ve lost everything, you\u2019re free to do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n While the rest of us were playing life safe and analyzing our career odds, the too-loud, too-stubborn Bronson was so far out of the running in a straight world that he invented his own game. Now, we pay our monthly cable bills to live vicariously through him.<\/p>\n At the end of the Gail Simmons episode where she makes a spaghetti pie, Bronson concludes the show with \u201cWell, that\u2019s it, it\u2019s been real, get the hell out of here.\u201d And there he goes, off to tape a podcast episode with a New York Yankee \u2014 like a big, jolly, bearded, high Ferris Bueller having the most fun in high school, shutting down his own house party and kicking everyone out.<\/p>\n We\u2019re just happy we got the invite.<\/p>\n Originally published in Issue 30\u00a0of Cannabis Now.\u00a0<\/em>LEARN MORE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n TELL US<\/b>,\u00a0are you an Action Bronson fan?<\/p>\n The post Late Night Action: A Review of \u2018The Untitled Action Bronson Show\u2019<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Face it, it\u2019s too late to go back and live your life out loud like late-night cable TV show host Action Bronson. But at least you can party with the barbarian when you get home from work. The voluminous, 34-year-old Queens, New York chef-turned-rapper-turned-late-night-variety-show-host is having more fun in 2018Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":26399,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4358,50,99,85,4073,4359,4360,4361],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26400,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26398\/revisions\/26400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"America](\"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/action-bronson-show-viceland.jpg\")
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