CHICAGO — Natasha Leggero describes “Rat in the Kitchen,” her new cooking competition series on TBS, as “a cooking whodunit, almost in the vein of "Knives Out" or "Clue." We have all these chefs that are coming on to win a cash prize, but what no one knows” — including Leggero and her co-host, the celebrity chef Ludo Lefebvre — “is which one of the chefs is the saboteur, the rat, who is going to sabotage everybody’s dishes. You never know who you can trust.”
A native of Rockford, Leggero said she may be a foodie but she’s a horrible cook herself: “I don’t make anything. I make toast for my 4-year-old. But apart from that, I’ve become a complete food snob and I’m amazing at critique.”
Perhaps best known as a standup comedian, she has also starred on the Comedy Central series “Another Period” (which parodied historical dramas) and has a long list of guest appearances on everything from “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” to “Modern Family” to “Superstore” to “BoJack Horseman.”
