Jason Schwartzman On 'Sesame Street': Star Is 'Cast Iron Cook'

Small, excitable and able to pull off an innocent naivety with aplomb: character on "Sesame Street" or Jason Schwartzman?

Trick question: now they're one and the same.

The "Bored to Death" star, who sneaks around the streets of New York in a trench coat in Jonathan Ames' HBO show, will now take his act to one of the city's most famed streets with a guest appearance on the PBS series on Friday. It's not just one of those quick stops that many actors make, playing themselves, either; Schwartzman is going all out in a parody of "Iron Chef."

Dressed like a cross between a magician and a marching band leader, he plays Super Chef, an eccentric TV host with a very particular tongue. And because you're by now very, very curious about it, you can check out a preview below.

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Comments

[TeriA1]

03:10 PM on 11/17/2011

When they said HBO, I was afraid it was Wanda Skyes. The kids would learn some new words. She could swear at me anytime.

[kinogod]

09:53 AM on 11/17/2011

Finished season 2 of bored in tears of laughter. Love his gentle smart ways.

[HankyJoe]

09:34 AM on 11/17/2011

put a smile on my face. :-)

[bigshotprof]

07:35 AM on 11/17/2011

Like he ever had to!!! :)

[hjo4]

10:39 PM on 11/16/2011

I like BTD ,it's a funny show. It does take some getting use to.Every now and then I'll glance at Jason and he'll look exactly like Sarah Silverman to me. Are they related by any chance.

[southerncaliforniaguy]

08:33 PM on 11/16/2011

I need an aspirin.

[gerbersmail]

08:20 PM on 11/16/2011

Who?

[somethinggood]

06:05 PM on 11/16/2011

there is no "celebrity" that is more pedestrian than this guy.. he's unremarkable's middle sister (jane brady reference)

[rini]

09:38 PM on 11/16/2011

Have you seen "Bored to Death?" He's great.

[kwaut lizard]

03:52 AM on 11/17/2011

Of course they haven't, they are stuck on the Cast Iron Cook's channel.

[Chad Wheeler]

11:42 AM on 11/17/2011

I find him adorable and interesting, I love almost everything he's ever been in. His choices in projects sure aren't pedestrian, perhaps that is why I love him. Pedestrian, for me, are those 20 something actors that I can't tell apart and that appear in the same kind of formulaic things that I have no interest in seeing.

[Daws]

04:59 PM on 11/16/2011

Lol. Too cute.

[tidalwave23]

04:38 PM on 11/16/2011

I love him.