VIDEOS: "Check Please!"-- Obama's lost episodes

By GottaLaff

Check this out: Our next president was on the Tee Vee Machine as an amateur restaurant critic:

In August, 2001, President-elect Barack Obama did a turn as amateur restaurant critic for a local Chicago television show called "Check, Please!". The premise of the show was that each week three amateur reviewers were invited to pick their favorite restaurant and review it, then they would review the picks of the other two critics.

After taping an episode with a local firefighter and a retail buyer, Obama's segment was shelved...until now. The vintage clip will be aired on January 16th.

The Chicago Tribune has more:

[T]he president-elect was too good--too thoughtful, too articulate, not enough of an amateur. He ended up dominating the conversation.

"It was unbalanced," Manilow said, "to put it charitably."

In other words, he was overqualified and realized he'd be better off as president of the United States. Here, he reviewed Dixie Kitchen and Bait Shop in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago:



The episode will air on January 16th at 8:00PM on WTTW.

H/t: Ellen