Finding Love, One Nugget at a Time
The deep fryer had only begun to sizzle when Amelia Dimoldenberg was informed that her date for the afternoon, a drill rapper named Bandokay, was scheduled to arrive any minute with his girlfriend.It was an unusually sunny Friday in January when the 28-year-old English comedian and YouTube host prepared to shoot the 58th episode of her popular video series “Chicken Shop Date.” The staff at Morley’s, a fast-food chain restaurant in the sleepy town of Loughton, Essex, looked thrilled.
In scripted comedy, Lisa Kudrow in “The Comeback” and Issa Rae in “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl” have helped pave a road cobbled together with cringe, but it’s been less traveled by female talk show hosts. “Most women who work in media are beautiful and accommodating and bubbly and personable,” she said. “Now that would be a real performance for me.”“Hi, I’m Amelia,” she’d say. “I’m going to be the editor of Vogue.
“My date with Amelia was actually the first date I’d ever been on, believe it or not,” said comedian Arnold Jorge, who filmed with Dimoldenberg in 2016 at the Spicy Grill ’N’ Fried in Bethnal Green. “And where better to do it than at a random chicken shop in East London?” Last year, she filmed a vox pop series called “Who Cares?” If the cooking show was inspired by her mother, this one came from canvassing with her father, Paul, a Labour Party member of Westminster City Council. Dimoldenberg interviewed people on the street to get their takes on topics such as billionaires, the housing crisis, fast fashion and cancel culture. She released it through her new production company, Dimz Inc., labored over the preproduction research and directed it herself.
“There’s a universality to her humor,” said Nina Manandhar, one of the founders of The Cut, who noted that in addition to being funny, there was something democratic, and very specific to London, about shooting in chicken shops. She stopped in front of her parents’ six-story apartment complex on Marylebone Road, where she was born and where her father has lived since he was a college student himself, first in a basement apartment at the back of the building and now on the fourth floor.
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