Mario Batali talks about being a Celebrity Chef and in the process shows us what a good television personality he really is. Batali gives celebrity view on celebrity "It's like this," Mario Batali said, sitting in his Eighth Street restaurant and talking about being famous. "I'm happy to sign autographs and do all of that, but there are times when I'm just trying to eat breakfast with my kids and the person I ask to wait for an autograph calls me an asshole. I'm not going to go off, though, like some celebrities, and punch a paparazzo or anything." But that's the beauty of New York, he said. "Even if 8 million people hate you, there's still 9 million people left, and a lot of them will still come to your restaurant." The Food Network alumnus - famous for his show "Molto Mario" - talked to GSP sophomores from professor Elayne Tobin's course, "Celebrity: A Cultural and Historical Exploration of Modern Fame." Th