“None of these guys are exactly Bill Murray, but all of them, especially John Cho and John Francis Daley, have spot-on comic timing.”

“John Francis Daley, a wide-eyed line cook from Utah, was hired a few days before the ousting of the previous chef, and is kept on by Bourdain mostly for laughs. The other cooks sometimes stuff his locker full of Spanish pornography, and he is frequently seen dropping onions from a giant bag he struggles to carry, which I’m now realizing is a much funnier recurring joke on film than in text.”

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