But the most jarring aspect of the whole enterprise may be how it splices together Bronson’s catholic tastes in pop-culture nostalgia. In this mash-up of Rachael Ray and vintage Conan O’Brien, Bronson fuses two practiced, entrenched formats-landing, maybe, somewhere near a stoner’s answer to the Today show. Zimmern and Bronson were on to their Kobe sliders when the show’s second guest, the singer Taylor Dayne, jumped into the fray. Bronson directed the five-piece house funk band―friends of his and “just some interpretive jam-band fucking jazz musicians”―when a transition was in order or when it was time to sing happy birthday. A signed copy of upcoming guest Wyclef Jean’s new album, Carnival III, rested among pasta sauces. “I don’t drink anything else, but I’ve been turned on to a bunch of other fine things like Chartreuse,” Bronson said. The studio was overflowing with all manner of cooking products and natural wines. (“You riding around in a Cadillac shooting an Uzi excites me,” Bronson said.)

They talked politics, food, style, and where to get Zimmern’s bespoke suede Chelsea boots (Leffot in the West Village). “I feel blessed by the Pope,” he said when Bizarre Foods host Andrew Zimmern joined him in the kitchen to start on the panzanella. I’d assumed Cody was a Jake Paul-lite or someone equally Internet famous-but it turned out that he’d simply met Bronson at a book signing at an ice cream shop.Īt the filming, Bronson wore his trademark Carhartt henley and athletic shorts, plus, on this occasion, Adidas slides. Monday’s birthday party was for a young man named Cody, who sat with his girlfriend and friends under a festive sign while the show went on. Standing on Vice’s first floor, an event space with Bronson’s kitchen and set tucked into the corner, I asked him before filming began if the title was permanent. Bronson’s team conceived of the show in January and started formal work on it at the end of August.

tonight, opposite Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The Untitled Action Bronson Show will premiere at 11:30 p.m. Viceland, the multi-billion-dollar media empire’s cable television channel, is now betting that it’s what a late-night show can look like, too. This is what last Monday afternoon looked like for Bronson. By the time they turned back, Bronson was inside Vice’s headquarters again―he had just stepped out onto the deck to throw the thing overboard―and tap dancing to jazz fusion. His guests gleefully snapped pictures as cars speeding along the Williamsburg waterfront tore the piñata apart. The chef-turned-rapper-turned-TV personality Action Bronson had ordered a piñata for the birthday party he was hosting, but it was in the middle of Kent Avenue before anyone else got a crack at it.

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