(applause)
- My next guest is one of the most
influential chefs in history.
Have you ever heard of California cuisine?
Well, this man practically invented it.
He has been the head chef for the Governors Ball
for 26 years.
That's the annual dinner following the Academy Awards
that every winner attends.
Please welcome chef, TV personality, restaurateur
and best-selling cookbook author Wolfgang Puck, y'all.
- All right!
(audience cheering)
- Thank you for coming!
- Thank you.
- Thank you! Yes.
- Thank you. Look at that.
- This is an amazing spread.
- I know.
- You know the Oscars is the biggest event
in California.
- Yes.
- Or in the world probably you know and...
- Meryl Streep has eaten your food.
- Everybody, everybody.
(audience laughs)
- That's what I'm saying. So what are we serving today?
- Okay, okay let's start over here with the viking.
(stage members laugh)
- Thank you.
- Okay.
- I'm a huge fan.
- Thank you.
- So this is great.
- So you finish our Oscars here, so we always make something
which is related to the Oscars so we have
our smoked salmon Oscars.
Now over here, you can see our chocolate Oscars.
So we use the best chocolate, Valrhona Chocolate.
- Yes
- Infused with strawberries.
And everybody gets one to take home.
- Okay.
- And you, my famous comedian here...
- Yeah.
I love that you sound like a Bond villain.
(audience laughs)
- I hope I will be one day, one of those guys.
- That's so awesome.
- What does he do? The Bond villain?
- I don't know, he's- I don't know, there's
a lot of knives here so I don't know what goes on.
- Okay, okay, excellent.
So we're gonna make a vegan spring roll here.
- Okay.
- We have the apple slicer here.
- Yeah?
- You know how to do that?
- Yes.
- You hold it here, and...
- Okay, I'm gonna do this apple slice and then...
- Get it.
- And then you roll it up, you can see, look at that.
Nice slices.
- Wow!
- - Beautiful!
Oh, okay, oh thank you, beautiful!
(audience laughs)
It's my Valentine's Day gift.
- You're right, all right.
You know you can eat it.
(screaming)
(audience laughs and applauds)
Hold on so I'm gonna roll these up,
- - All right well,
- the way you would a joint, which I don't know how to do.
(audience and stage members laughing)
So I'm gonna guess.
- That's not what you said yesterday!
And I gonna make our famous macaroni and cheese,
(screaming) - Yes!
(crowd cheering)
So I have a little butter in my pan here,
and I gonna add some freshly ground pepper,
because I like a little spice in it.
So you put a little bit of that right in here.
How is the viking with one hand,
take the hand out of the pocket please!
- Oh sorry!
Excuse me, excuse me!
- He's putting,
putting all your food, he's putting the caviar
in his pocket.
He's like I'm taking this with me.
- I know what are you doing
with your hand in your pocket there, huh?
- So what's next with this?
- A little cream,
and I made a little tiny bit of cheese sauce here.
You can use a mushroom soup for example to put in here.
- Wait he's not allowed to put his hand in his pocket,
but you can lick your fingers?
(all laughing)
You're like it's my dish!
- I took a shower this morning.
(all laughing)
- The viking smells!
- Fair, fair enough, fair enough!
- This one likes horse crap on his face,
so I'd watch out!
(audience laughing)
- I don't know where the viking has been, you know?
(all laughing)
- It's like working with Blake Shelton.
- Okay a little Parmesan, a little cheddar cheese.
- Yes!
(oohing from hosts)
- All right let's throw it all in here.
- And then, what are you not working?
- I'm done!
What more to you want from me?
- Get to work you lazy viking!
- They're like just watching.
What do you think we are paying you for?
- I'm learning!
- All right, now we mix it together.
- Okay.
- Now Kelly doesn't have to work.
- Oh my gosh, I just want to be a supervisor and eat.
I'm gonna taste tester.
- Okay good, good.
- Ooh look how cheesy!
- Yeah look get cheesy, even a little bit more.
Since you like the cheese!
(all oohing)
And a little more Parmesan.
- [Kelly] Now this is why people love your food.
This is straight up southern, what you're doing.
- I know, total diet, you eat that you loose five pounds.
(all laughing)
Right away!
All right we gonna bake it!
So fill them up nicely.
- Uh huh, I love your accent!
- A little,
- - I love your accent.
- It's southern accent!
- No!
- Yeah!
- It's not southern!
- Can you do a southern accent?
- I'm from southern Austria, so it's the same thing!
(all laughing)
- I was like,
so wait it turns out and it looks like this right?
- It looks like that exactly!
- Did you want,
- - [Alex] Oh my god!
- We bake it in the oven.
- Is everybody taking some?
- - How long?
- Ten minutes.
- Ten minutes!
- Or until it gets nice and brown.
- - Do you wanna taste some?
- - [Alex] Oooh!
- Do you wanna pass down?
I mean it looks delicious, so!
- Oh my god!
- [Wolfgang] And we have a fork here.
- Oh my god!
- Oh I didn't give them the fork!
Apparently I want you to eat it with your hands!
- Okay you eat with your hands, it's all right.
- No I'll eat with a fork!
- The viking is rubbing off on me.
- I mean I gotta try this!
Oh my god it looks so buttery, oooh!
- Does this pass the southern taste test?
- Oh my god!
- I know!
- - Uh oh!
- Okay I just want somebody to invite me
to the Governor's Ball so I can eat!
That's all!
- Anything you want!