- Spider-Man is the guy, you know?
He was nerdy.
He had a crush.
He could swing on webs.
He had his secrets.
It's everything a child is going through--
- Right. - --you know what I'm saying?
Well, not having web.
[THEME MUSIC]
Justin Warner here with Chris Redd of Saturday Night Live
and today, we're going to Eat The Universe.
The whole damn thing.
Today, we're going to make a pretty exciting dish.
We are going to mash up two of the iconic foods of two
iconic American cities that also are home
to two very iconic superheroes.
You are from Chicago?
That's right.
Chicago is known for a lot of great food,
but what I think is best of Chicago is the Chicago dog.
Hmm, you're right about that.
Of course, New York is known for its iconic pizza.
So today, we are going to make a Chicago dog pizza.
What?
That's crazy.
When I think about Chicago Super Heroes,
I think about Moon Knight.
When I think about New York, man, I go right to Spider-Man.
Oh.
[IMITATING WEB SHOOTING NOISES] Moon Knight is dope, too.
I love Moon Knight.
Well, let's start by rolling out some dough.
How do you feel about that?
- Let's roll some dough. - Great.
This is pizza dough.
Feels like Play-Doh, but with more use for it?
Right.
Nice.
Is that what you do?
Basically, that's it.
So there are a couple of-- - I'm cooking, people.
Right?
There a couple ways you could do this.
We could use a rolling pin if we wanted to,
but you know that everybody at home
wants to see us toss the dough.
Yeah.
A lot of people on the way over here would like,
yo, if you don't toss the dough, don't come home.
Make a fist, Super Hero fist.
Oh.
Now make another fist.
Oh, yeah. CHRIS REDD: What?
Come on, fam.
JUSTIN WARNER: We're doing it.
You see that casually just, like, stretches out the dough.
Wow, bro.
Ooo.
See how we're spreading this out?
CHRIS REDD: You are spreading it out.
Yeah, just push out the crust a little bit.
Stay right over there.
Stay over there, crust.
You grew up in Chicago.
Yeah, Chicago and Chicago suburbs.
Got it.
Yeah, you got to say that, because Chicagoans
are very particular.
He-- he-- he went to [INAUDIBLE] for two years.
Stop telling the secrets.
Like, shut up, Derek.
[LAUGHS] You've been living in New York now for some time.
I got to know, which city, New York or Chicago,
has the best minor league baseball team--
you thought I was going to say pizza, didn't you?
Yeah, I hate the pizza argument so much,
because I love both pizzas.
Also, no one in Chicago is running
around loving pizza that much.
Like, no one really cares.
It's just somebody made that a thing
and then it's just kind of been a thing.
But I don't eat pizza everyday at home.
That's crazy.
Especially if it's, like, the size of a swimming
pool like you do in Chicago.
Like the size of a swimming pool.
It is a feast.
It's a very big feast.
JUSTIN WARNER: So we're done with pizza crust.
Let's make ourselves some pizza sauce.
We got a pan here.
And here, we've got some hot dogs.
CHRIS REDD: Love that.
JUSTIN WARNER: We're going to fry them up
so that they're super crispy.
CHRIS REDD: When you said hot dog pizza,
I thought we were just going to lay
four hot dogs across a pizza.
I was like, that's gonna be super ugly.
This is a better idea.
That's why you're the chef.
So we're going to fry these up in their own oil,
get them super crisp, and then we're going to use that--
This is the oil?
No, no, no, this is naturally secreted.
I just really want to spray this oil on something.
So, question, when did you first
kind of encounter the Marvel Universe and Spider-Man?
CHRIS REDD: It was the video games
that got me really into it, because I
loved video games so much.
And Spider-Man video games, all the Marvel videos games
were super dope.
MAXIMUM CARNAGE, the red cartridge--
Man, dude, so sick.
We played that for hours on end, me and my brother.
And, like, I would have to go clean my room
and he would have nothing to do, but don't
play the game until I get back.
Don't play, I have to play it first.
JUSTIN WARNER: This is going to be the basis for our sauce.
And we're going to use all of the things
that you would find in a Chicago dog.
OK.
The Chicago dog is like the ideal team
up of all sorts of things, you know?
You have kind of, like, the leader, the hot dog.
But then you have all of these other crazy components.
That's one thing that I love about
the Marvel Universe is that you're always
seeing these crazy team-ups.
One of my favorites, of course, being
Moon Knight and Spider-Man.
You know why Moon Knight wears all white?
No, why?
So that people can see him coming.
Yo, what a hacky thing.
JUSTIN WARNER: Right?
I just thought it was, like, Labor Day all the time.
So who in the world of comedy and fun is,
like, your dream team-up?
Oh, I think I'm living my dream team-up
right now with my friend Sam Jay, Jak Knight,
and Langston Kerman.
We're all best friends in those comics.
And on the show, I like to team-up
with Pete Davidson a bunch.
And Kenan Thompson is, like, my favorite
in the world to do stuff with.
And then on the writing side, Will Stevens,
who I write a lot with.
JUSTIN WARNER: We've rendered a lot
of oil out of these hot dogs.
These are going to be like stunningly delicious.
They're a little hot.
That's like one of the best hot dogs you've ever had, right?
I mean, come on now.
JUSTIN WARNER: All right, so now I got some onions.
We're going to save half of them to be a pizza topping.
But look, you can see that now, we're not wasting any
of that delicious hot dog oil.
CHRIS REDD: You never want to waste that oil.
Right?
It's going back into the onions.
Let's go over here to the sport peppers.
CHRIS REDD: Mmm. JUSTIN WARNER: Right?
CHRIS REDD: I love peppers, man.
JUSTIN WARNER: These, I think, are really, truly what makes
the Chicago dog, a Chicago dog.
So now we're going to add some tomatoes.
Pickled brine, as well.
Now for the backbone, we're going to use mustard.
CHRIS REDD: Oh, you put mustard on now.
JUSTIN WARNER: Yeah.
Let's blend this up.
All right, so there's some things
that you should be aware of when you're
going to hot blend some stuff.
I'm going to put this towel over top, because if this
were to sputter and fly, at least
I have now, like, another sheet--
CHRIS REDD: A layer, yeah.
JUSTIN WARNER: Yeah, to protect me.
All right.
You are a super hero.
Some don't wear capes.
[BLENDER]
There we go.
Do you want to give it a try?
This is a very weird looking spoon.
So spoon been through something.
It's going to be spicy, it's going to be sour,
and it's going to be kind of all the things
that we want in a delicious pizza sauce.
Yeah, that's good.
All right, we got our sauce.
We got our toppings.
We got our crust.
I'm going to bake this off and deliver it
to you at the Table of Tastes.
[SMACKING LIPS] Yum.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
- Yo! - I know.
Yo, you killed this.
Do you think Chicago would be proud?
I think Chicago would be proud.
I think some would be confused.
Do you want to finish this good guy
off with a little celery salt?
You've gotta have some celery salt, baby.
And some neon relish, specifically
imported from Chicago.
It looks like incredible Hulk sweat.
Right?
Ew.
[LAUGHS]
So I feel like one of the things that makes cooking
so much fun, and one of the things
that makes Spider-Man such an identifiable character,
is mistakes.
Yeah.
Right?
I mean, Peter Parker is always screwing up.
What's like the best gaff you've ever had
in, like, the world of comedy?
Like, happy accident, you know?
Maybe my birth.
There are accidents all the time, because I'm
constantly improvising.
You just find these incredible moments.
I remember, like, I did Popstar and we were supposed
to be watching a video game.
Me and Andy Samberg's character were
suppose we playing this invisible game
that does not exist.
And I just kept calling out things that were in the game.
And at one point, they were like,
Chris, if you call it out, we have to make it.
[LAUGHS] Because they have to show the screen and--
Right, right, right.
--show these characters.
But they ended up making all of it.
And they're, like, you riffed a whole new video game.
I want to eat this pizza.
All right. Let's try it.
You ready to do this?
Dude, what?
What?
That is so far. - Yeah.
That is so good.
And like, we just did that.
Like, it wasn't, like, a big deal.
Man, I'm going to tell all my girlfriends I'm a chef now.
I'll tell you what, this is what team-ups are all about.
Chris Redd, thank you so much for teaming up with me.
Where can we find more of your work?
You can find me on SNL.
You can find me on Instagram @chrisreddis.
You can find me around New York City, doing comedy stand-up.
Or in your city doing stand-up.
Instagram, I have everything on air,
because I'm too lazy to make a website.
I hear.
It's very millennial of you.
Thanks so much for being here, my friend.
I really appreciate the team-up.
We'll see you all next time Eat The Universe.
The whole damn thing.
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