In only this singular respect of fraud can Jack Scalfani be considered a successor: He was an obscure radio DJ who decided that filming himself at home surrounded by shit-tier, gimmick kitchen appliances established himself as a celebrity chef in the minds of a nonexistent audience. In this respect, Jack has more in common with Frank Roosevelt; whose strategy for life at one point was to surround himself with bought taxidermied animals while selling himself as some kind of clone of his popular fifth cousin. And, like Jack, the latter part of his public career was centered around pretending that he could still walk.
Don't forget though, Fatty had MULTIPLE opportunities to actually launch his career and failed at every single one. Bourdain, Thompson, Hemmingway, Roosevelt, all capitalized on the opportunities they stumbled into.
Didn't capitalize on the stupid infomercial he was on with Montel Williams, could have marketed himself to the eldery and wine moms on youtube who might have seen him on TV.
Didn't capitalize on getting selected as a secondary(because the actual winner couldn't attend), and wound up at that Macy's Great American Grilling thing, and couldn't get a boost from that.
Didn't capitalize on being on a TV show about his stupid sauce and youtube channel, then had his head so far up his own ass that even though he was on TV he still couldn't make anything of it after the fact. Then had the audacity to bitch on his blog about being approached by another show.
Didn't capitalize on his brother actually getting his stupid sauce onto some store shelves except trying to copy/paste a script from an as seen on TV commercial on his own youtube channel. Hilariously, he barely showcased his own product like a moron, and rarely bothered to send any samples out(I can only assume because he thought his shit was worth its weight in gold and it would just sell itself even if no one had ever heard of it, based purely on the stupid name).
Didn't capitalize on the burst of resurgence after august the duck, brian tsao, "uncle roger", and others all jumped on the bandwagon of making fun of his stupid ass. He could have put some actual effort into his shit when the hate watchers came around and showed that he either had a personality worth a crap that wasn't shown in the other videos or that he had been making personal improvements, but didn't do any of that.
Didn't capitalize on his supposed sponsorships regarding his therapy glove thing((saebo I think it was?) to show any miniscule amount of recovery and continuing his career showing that he could actually overcome adversity.
Instead all anyone ever saw on his channel was a lying, obese, retard, who can't cook and loved to make an ass out of himself in public with his fat on the go channel.
Considering Fatty pretends to be religious, how does that modern parable of the drowning man go?
Dude stuck on a rooftop in a flood, prays. Rowboat comes by, he says he's waiting on god. Motorboat comes by, says he's waiting on god. Helicopter comes by, says he's waitng on god. Dude asks god wtf he didn't help, and god tells him he sent 2 boats and a helicopter. With Fatty though it's extra hilarious because not only has basically the same shit happened with his career, but it's also happened with his health.
edit: Actually, I just thought of something. Marc, you're referring to Fatty basically idolizing someone(and likely others) who could be considered a fraud in some regard. Right? If you think about this whole thing from a different perspective, Fatty himself while pretending to be a youtube chef is a fraud, he never actually changed his caustic as fuck personality or hid his narcissism. He has I guess managed to at least be consistent with his retarded principles, obviously to a fault.
