“I want to kill everybody who listens to me as I stumble around this world,” says the character Anthony Bourdain in one scene of a short three-act sketch called “Parts Unknown.” “So what happens if I want to eat up a big freaking octopus?” Bourdain asks later. “What do you think of food and water?” Though the lines may seem like inscrutable nonsense, they’re actually based on the most common phrases the celebrity chef uses on his CNN show.
This is the first time that scripts generated by Brew’s computer will be performed live, and he hopes it won’t be the last. “I don’t know if it will be sketch shows, musical revues, or whatnot,” he says, “but I don’t intend for this to be the end of the line.”
