If there is a more stultifyingly overdone format on telly than the food travelogue, it is the comedian-and-guest-on-holiday travelogue. Yet here we are with Big Zuu’s 12 Dishes in 12 Hours, which combines the two. But you can roll me in flaked almonds and stuff me in your carry-on luggage if it isn’t the freshest new entry in either genre for years.
Big Zuu is Zuhair Hassan, who is not a comedian as such – officially he’s a rapper and DJ – but whose guests on his previous series for Dave, Big Zuu’s Big Eats, were mostly standups. There, as Zuu cooked for his temporary companions, he was effortlessly as funny as they were without competing with them.
