TV dinners are cool again

I was recently introduced to "Dinner For Five" through the magic of the interweb. It's a show with ever so cool Jon Favreau (the director of next year's Iron Man) hosting an evening with four of his Hollywood friends (four different people or combination of different people each episode) who casually discuss the craft of acting and the pitfalls of fame (e.g., the ugly fan who says, "Everybody tells me I look just like you!"). Apparently, the show is a rip-off from the show Ruby Wax had called "Ruby". This show is much better, though. Mostly because it doesn't have Ruby Wax in it.

I've found clips of the show on Youtube and Dailymotion.com and compiled a small section of all the episodes here. I've seen most of these and they're all very good.

Episode 1.1: Jon Favreau/ Joey Lauren Adams, Peter Berg, Kevin James, Jeanne Tripplehorn
View the full episode: Here

Episode 1.2: Jon Favreau/ Peter Falk, Cheri Oteri, Garry Shandling, Vince Vaughn
View the full episode: Here

Episode 1.3: Jon Favreau/ Illena Douglas, Jeff Goldblum, Christian Slater, Fred Willard
View the full episode: Here

Episode 1.5: Jon Favreau/ Ron Livingston, Kevin Pollack, Sarah Silverman, Rod Steiger
View the full episode: Here

Episode 1.5: Jon Favreau/ Andy Dick, Daryl Hannah, Marylin Manson, (missing a fifth)
View the full episode: Here

Episode 2.1: Jon Favreau/ Ben Affleck, Colin Farrell, Jennifer Garner, Kevin Smith
Part: one/ two/ three

Episode 4.2: Jon Favreau/ Neve Campbell, Dave Foley, Jeff Garlin, Henry Winkler
Part: one/ two/ three

Episode 4.6: Jon Favreau/ Bruce Campbell, Roger Corman, Faizon Love, Rob Zombie
Part: one/ two/ three

Episode 4.8: Jon Favreau/ David Duchovny, Tim Blake Nelson, Stephen Root, Dax Shepard
Part: one/ two/ three/ four/ five

Episode 4.9: Jon Favreau/ Tony Hawk, John Heder, Seth MacFarlane, Stacy Peralta
Part: one/ two/ three

Episode 4.10: Jon Favreau/ Rosanna Arquette, Bill Maher, Alanis Morissette, Bob Odenkirk
Part: one/ two/ three

Episode 4.12: Kevin Smith (guest host), J.J. Abrams, Mark Hamill, Jason Lee, Stan Lee
Part: one/ two/ three (very good episode with some of my heroes)

Bonus clip: Vince Vaughn giving Rory Cochrane from C.S.I: Miami the hardest time ever recorded on television here. Funny stuff.

You can buy the first season exclusively from Amazon. It's an amazing line up of film makers, actors, producers, writers and damn right cool people. For some reason the complete four season boxset (which was only recently released) has been deleted from Amazon. There was apparently difficulty publishing the DVD and supplying orders made a month ago. The show is now being broadcast on ITV4, of all stations. On a sidenote: I've had exactly 1000 individual visitors in exactly 4 weeks. Go me!