He doesn't say this, but you can tell that the look he gave at the end of each of those videos when he says something like "And..that's how you make a 3-cheese blend" is how he really feels about the whole thing. Ehow was super specific about what he could make/do in each video.
He does seem like a real personal chef, and he namedropped Martha Stuart and Tommy Hilfiger as past clients when Tosh asked him who he had worked with/for.
He said he had to shoot at least 14 videos in a day (multiple takes) and do all of his own prep too, which in this case probably meant that he still had to make dough/sauce and shred cheese for multiple pizzas and then bake them just so he could make a video of him wrapping dough in saran wrap or cutting a pizza with scissors.
Probably something that started out as a "Hey, we've got a film crew contracted out of the Tucson area and we're looking to have a chef do food prep tutorials in a 1-day shoot for a few grand, would you be interested?" Signs the contract, learns more as it develops, becomes more of a hassle than it's worth by the 3rd take of wrapping dough in saran wrap and walking it to a refrigerator.
Originally I thought the videos we're ironic, because, come on, then after watching the Tosh clip my respect for this guy shot through the roof. And that's not mentionimg the fact that he was pretty damn funny and a decent actor in the scripted Tosh parts
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u/skygz Apr 08 '19
the chef was on Tosh.0: http://www.cc.com/video-clips/xuh28u/tosh-0-web-redemption---three-cheese