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Back in August, I was watching a taped adventure of “The Late Actualization with Stephen Colbert” aback appear the end of the show, instead of bringing out a agreeable guest, Colbert sat bottomward at a baby standalone table and ate four added ambrosial craven wings while answering questions from a smooth-talking accuser called Sean Evans.
This was the aboriginal time I had anytime abstruse about “Hot Ones,” a accepted YouTube actualization area Evans interviews assorted celebrities as they eat hotter and hotter craven wings.
In anniversary “Hot Ones” episode, you’ll see some of your admired celebrities try to affected afire hot wings. In the case of Colbert, he fabricated jokes – “My fillings are on blaze appropriate now” – drank a ton of milk, and paced about the date in advanced of his alive flat audience. The four-minute account was fun, but added importantly, it acquainted authentic.
A feature “Hot Ones” adventure on YouTube lasts about 20 to 25 account and follows the aforementioned recipe: the host (Sean Evans), a appropriate bedfellow (usually a celebrity), and two sets of 10 generously-sauced hot wings, anniversary one hotter than the last. One catechism is asked per wing, but alike if the bedfellow doesn’t accomplish it to the accomplishment band (most of them do), Evans will ask all of his able questions.
The actualization has been about for about two years and “Hot Ones” has landed some absurd guests in that span, including actor Kevin Hart, NBA superstar Kevin Durant, actors James Franco and Bryan Cranston, astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and abounding others.
Some absorbing stats about the show:
• As of November 29, 2017, there are 110 absolute episodes of “Hot Ones.”
• 85 of the 110 “Hot Ones” episodes accept over 1 actor angle on YouTube; 8 episodes accept over 5 actor views.
• The top 59 videos on the Aboriginal We Feast YouTube approach are all “Hot Ones” episodes.
• The best accepted “Hot Ones” adventure actualization Kevin Hart. It has over 10 actor views.
“Hot Ones” is aloof one actualization from Complex Networks’ Aboriginal We Feast team, which produces videos that abstraction the circle of aliment and pop culture, but “Hot Ones” is far and abroad the team’s best accepted hit. The actualization is decidedly accepted amid the internet association on Reddit – there’s alike a “Hot Ones” subreddit with about 12,000 subscribers.
To apprentice added about the close apparatus of YouTube’s hottest show, I got on the buzz with “Hot Ones” host and Chicago built-in Sean Evans to allocution about his life, “Hot Ones,” and its advancing evolution.
This account was agilely edited for clarity.
Dave Smith: Acquaint me about how you went from freelancing at Complex to accepting a full-time job at Complex. You went bottomward to New Orleans for a job – what happened there?
Sean Evans: It was aloof to do some interviews. I was active in Chicago at the time, I was alive freelance with Complex so I was bottomward there to do some interviews with 2Chainz and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Dwight Howard and Damian Lillard and a agglomeration of rappers and athletes and celebrities that were bottomward there for NBA All-Star Weekend.
That cruise aloof so happened to be appointed at the aforementioned exact time Complex was aggravating to get its YouTube approach off the ground.
I anticipate they were accomplishing some video agreeable but they saw I had all these crazy interviews lined up, so they were like, “Hey, do you anticipate it’s air-conditioned if we put these things on camera?” I was like, “please put them on camera!” Because I had such a pathetic, arid activity at the time, to me, accepting a 2Chainz on-camera YouTube account was like the coolest affair ever.
So [Complex] came in with the cameras, they popped the tripods down, and allegedly they admired the accomplished artefact abundant to activity me a job. Thirty canicule later, I awash all my s—, I abdicate my job in Chicago, again I was in New York the abutting month. It was affectionate of crazy.
Smith: Was journalism and interviewing consistently your passion?
Evans: I was a advertisement journalism aloft at the University of Illinois, so there’s consistently allotment of you that thinks you could, or hopes you could, but it’s not like you can aloof airing in and get a TV job.
In fact, my assistant at the time, John Paul, he anticipation I would be a abundant weatherman. He’s like, “you’re so glib,” and I could extemporaneous a little bit on blooming screen. He was like, “you’re custom-built to be a weatherman.” That’s affectionate of area my focus was, but again you graduate, you get a job at an bureau or about autograph columnist releases, and again afore you apperceive it, bristles years of your life’s gone by and you’re like “whoa whoa whoa, what the hell happened?”
There’s that abundant Steve Jobs adduce about not actuality able to affix the dots attractive forward, aloof attractive back, and so it was aloof a alternation of coincidences and demography advantage of every befalling and again eventually, like a Plinko ball, I aloof concluded up in this spot.
Smith: You are a actual affecting apostle – area does that appear from? Do you accept acquaintance accessible speaking or something?
Evans: Bodies who are from Chicago are aloof funnier than bodies who aren’t from Chicago. I apperceive I anticipate a little bit abnormally and allocution a little bit differently, but you know, aback bodies say those things, I say, “all my accompany are absolutely like that.” I anticipate bodies from Chicago aloof accept a way of talking that’s a little bit different.
No ball background, it’s not like I was in the Additional City amphitheater or annihilation like that. I don’t know, I assumption I’m a little bit glib, maybe my assistant was right.
Smith: Allotment of the address of “Hot Ones” is how abundantly able you are for your interviews. What’s your analysis activity like?
Evans: Aback it comes to the account questions, how we bold plan it, it’s aloof what it looks like. We apprehend and watch every distinct affair that we can.
I do this with (First We Feast editor-in-chief) Chris Schonberger, who’s a architect and ambassador of this show, and we basically bisect and conquer. He’ll accelerate me a big continued account of all the podcasts, profiles and actualization he’s activity to accept to and read. I’ll usually binge-watch every accessible YouTube video – if it’s a artist I’ll accept to their music, if it’s somebody who wrote a book I’ll apprehend their book.
I anticipate it’s by advantage of absolutely caring that we set ourselves afar because there’s so abundant in media that’s aloof authoritative the donuts dance, and we knew if we could differentiate, which aloof agency rolling your sleeves up and accepting afterwards it, we knew we’d accept a absolute applicable property.
Smith: Who are your admired interviewers?
Evans: I anticipate the best of all time, you accept to go with Howard Stern. He was a aloft access on me. I would accomplish tapes of his radio actualization and aloof ball them on the amphitheater – alike in elementary academy and inferior high, I was consistently obsessed.
I was a big fan of David Letterman. One of my ancient memories: My dad acclimated to adulation Letterman, and he’d watch it at night or he’d binge-watch it on the weekends because he’d band it. And I’d sit abutting to him and accomplish him explain the antic to me every time the admirers laughed, which I’m abiding was awful annoying for my dad, but maybe in some bedraggled way, maybe I’m aggravating to accomplish bodies beam like Letterman acclimated to accomplish my dad laugh. Like if I were to go into analysis and do some deep-dive on what’s affectionate of fueling this thing, this is apparently like the bedraggled spiral that’s loose, you know?
But I anticipate it’s Howard Stern – legend. David Letterman. Adam Corolla and Jimmy Kimmel. Charlie Rose. James Lipton. [Interviewer and musician] Nardwuar. All of these bodies who can affix with their accountable and again accompany out article that’s human, beating them appropriate out of their PR-driven captivation pattern. That was consistently what I admired to see, what I admired to accept to, what consistently put me on the bend of my seat, so I apperceive that’s important.
Smith: Accept so Sean, I absolutely abhorrence to put you on the spot, but at this point in the account I charge to ask you a few claimed questions. In account of what you do on your actualization “Hot Ones,” I did my own Instagram deep-dive on you, Sean Evans, so I accept a few questions about some things I’ve apparent in your Instagram feed. Is that okay?
Evans: Yes, go for it. I adulation it.
Smith: Great. So I’m attractive at a account actuality from February 14, 2014. It’s you with best beard captivation up two tickets to the NBA All-Star game. Your explanation there is: “Hey. Blessed Valentine’s Day, ladies.” What’s the adventure there?
Evans: That was aloof me with a nice haircut, activity myself. I wasn’t consistently a baldheaded look. That is the actual New Orleans cruise that affectionate of launched this accomplished thing. I anticipate that was in the courtyard of the W Hotel, and that was my weekend aback I was accomplishing all of these interviews on camera, my first-ever on-camera interviews on a able level. So that’s aloof me assuming off a nice haircut, and I anticipate that was on Valentine’s Day. I had a plus-one to the Dunk Contest so to all the ladies out there who were afterward me at the time, that was aloof a Bat signal.
Smith: Did anyone appear with you to the All-Star Game?
Evans: I had a acceptable weekend. I had a abundant weekend that weekend.
Smith: All right, aftermost one for you Sean. This photo from 2014 is you and Chrissy Teigen. She’s beating your arch actuality – I’m activity to accept you two got along. What was that alternation like?
Evans: I anticipate that was my additional or third day in New York. Aback Complex assassin me, originally I wasn’t at Aboriginal We Feast, I was aloof like a assassin duke for Complex. They’d accelerate me out to altered contest or they’d accept bodies visiting the appointment and I’d do interviews with athletes, musicians, whoever. So they beatific me out to some on-location affair with Chrissy Teigen. We do the account and afterwards it wrapped, I’m cat-and-mouse like they were activity to do some affectionate of account of us together, and again I aloof feel a argot up the ancillary of my face. I was a little bit abashed by it, but then, it’s Chrissy Teigen, which put me at affluence – and does accomplish for a appealing acceptable picture. If I anamnesis that account correctly, I attending a little abashed by it, a little scared. She put me on my heels for sure.
Smith: I’m sure. Able-bodied acknowledge you for indulging me on that Instagram deep-dive, but I appetite to get aback to “Hot Ones.” How abounding bodies are on the team, and what is the accepted activity like from allotment the bedfellow to the point aback filming begins?
Evans: It’s a about baby aggregation activity anniversary to week, and we accept a big continued account of bodies we target. Like in the appointment I’m in appropriate now, we accept a white lath and it’s got all the names of bodies who we’ve accomplished out to.
It’s not accessible to, anniversary over anniversary at 11 a.m. on Thursday, get a fully-produced “Hot Ones.” With a aggregation that small, it is aloof anybody alive their asses off every week. There’s no abracadabra to it at all, it’s aloof authentic bend grease. Bodies lighting their beard on blaze every anniversary and putting it out in a debris can abounding of ice cubes, anniversary over anniversary over anniversary over week, for basically two beeline years. It’s been insane.
When it comes to acrimonious a guest, there are a lot affective genitalia to it. But the acceptable affair about comments sections, for as abundant s— as they get, is that you accept a real-life focus accumulation with you at all times. If you pay absorption to your audience, it’s a cat that will let you apperceive area it cast to get pet. So we accept an abstraction of who our admirers wants to see.
Of course, my activity now I’m basically like a bells DJ demography requests 24/7. Every time somebody stops me on the street, they acquaint me who they appetite to see on the show. I accessible up Twitter, they acquaint me who they appetite to see on the show. Anybody is consistently aloof hitting me with the guests they appetite to see. But there has to be a allotment of you, that Vince McMahon affair area you apperceive what the bodies appetite added than the bodies apperceive what they want.
Smith: I appetite to apperceive about the activity for blanket the wings. Anniversary “Hot Ones” has 10 altered addition sauces, with anniversary one hotter than the last. Do you booze the wings the aforementioned for every guest?
Evans: Yes, it’s the aforementioned all the way through. I’m not absolutely complex in this because I’m usually sitting in the seat, but I’ve apparent it in action. They’ll accept like 20 artificial bowls out, and all the bowls will be abounding with the altered hot sauces, so two sets of 10 bowls for anniversary sauce. And again Chris Schonberger, or our ambassador Dominique, they’ll bung the wings in that basin so you’ll get abounding advantage on the wings, so that our guests can’t acquisition a bend or a ancillary area there’s not booze on it.
So you get that abounding coverage, and again they’re put on the board, and they’re beatific out – and of course, on that final addition you get a little added aftermost dab.
Smith: Follow-up question: Do you guys do anything, abnormally during the activity of blanket the wings, to accomplish abiding guests don’t get absolutely sick, abnormally for [the final sauce] The Aftermost Dab?
Evans: You know, the basin isn’t activity to be as acceptable a cascade on Da Bomb, as say, on Valentina. That said, we avoid disclaimers larboard and appropriate on “Hot Ones.” I anticipate some of these bottles say, “Just a drop!” “Dilute with water!” We don’t do any of that stuff. On some akin it does accept to toe the band in adjustment to accumulate its bend and accompany bodies in and absolutely accurately a bedfellow in the mouth, which is article that acutely our admirers like to see and it’s a beachcomber that we’ve ridden. So on some akin it’s downshifted a bit, but apparently not as abundant as it should be.
Smith: Who has been your admired bedfellow so far?
Evans: I like altered episodes for altered reasons. The N.O.R.E. adventure is an adventure that aloof catches the track. It’s array of a buddy-cop blur all the way through, and aback that happens it’s aloof affectionate of magic.
I anticipate there’s a accomplished class of interviews I acknowledge because they’re aloof such dense, absolute blocks of agreeable in my opinion: Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Henry Rollins, Steve-O, Ricky Gervais, Russell Brand. Those are interviews that, to me, all the way through, aloof hum. They hit the appropriate notes. Absolutely how the adventure was in our heads, was absolutely the way it came out.
There’s aloof episodes that I love. There’s the Key & Peele episode, which I anticipate helped barrage us. There’s the DJ Khaled adventure area the activity is aloof so bad that it’s amazing. The YG adventure – to me, YG consistently has these horrible, abhorrent interviews, but on “Hot Ones,” he’s amazing.
So aback we can booty bodies that usually don’t ball nice with the media – Kevin Durant, for archetype – and accomplish an adventure area you see a altered ancillary of them, those are ones I’m appreciative of, too. They all aloof analysis altered boxes to me.
Smith: Follow up to that: Which bedfellow afraid you the most?
Evans: That’s a acceptable question. The acumen I anticipate we don’t absolutely absence is because all of that research. You end up accomplishing some affectionate of absolute armchair pop attitude on your guest. You about apperceive them afore they anytime sit down. You about accept their personality pegged, or the things we apperceive ball able-bodied to our audience. I anticipate that’s the key best of these [episodes] haven’t bricked or gone absolutely bad, because we consistently apperceive on some akin what to expect.
But you apperceive who did affectionate of abruptness me? And this is no shock, because he’s a actual funny guy and he’s a abundant dude: Jim Gaffigan. For his ball and acceptability and his brand, the actuality he didn’t get through 10 wings is still one of the best mind-boggling, abstract things. That’s the affair I was extreme abroad from the target. I would’ve put aggregate I had on Jim Gaffigan accepting through 10 wings, and he didn’t get through 10 wings. We were abashed by that. But that’s why you ball the game, and that’s why you shoot the show. You never know.
Smith: Attractive at the lifetime of your show, can you define aback things started accepting absolutely huge?
Evans: Yeah we allocution about the tentpole episodes all the time. To me, there are a brace that had us breaking through the ceiling. The aboriginal one is Machine Gun Kelly, which I anticipate is the additional adventure ever. I bethink while it was happening, he was accepting up, he’s walking about the room, he’s screaming, he’s so uncomfortable, but it’s affected and amazing on this black-background annihilation set. It was aloof atomic energy. And aback that was activity on, that’s aback I knew this actualization is different. This actualization is special. This actualization is article the apple needs now.
The adventure that absolutely was the aboriginal huge, viral, many-many-millions-of-views adventure was the Key & Peele episode, which we knew was awesome, but the actualization wasn’t consistently so popular. I bethink aback we’d deathwatch up and we’d be advantageous to accept 25,000-30,000 angle in a day, but the Key & Peele adventure was the aboriginal millions and millions of angle array of “viral” video. That’s aback I knew we were assimilate something.
The Kevin Hart adventure was a advance as well. That was huge, A-list talent, in his moment. Really, already you accept a foundation like that, to me, there’s not a being who’s absolutely untouchable or unreachable. Not everyone’s activity to accede to eat craven wings, that’s acutely an astronomic bolt to our show, that’s an astronomic ask. It’s not accessible to get anyone to do your show, but on “Hot Ones,” you accept to eat scorching-hot craven wings. So it’s consistently activity to be a claiming to book, in my opinion, no amount how accepted it is in the zeitgeist. But already you alpha accepting those bigger apples to fall, you lay a foundation area I don’t anticipate there’s anyone who’s alfresco of our reach, or our adeptness to get them and accept them eat some wings.
Smith: What’s the approaching for the show?
Evans: To us, you appetite to be careful. I anticipate generally times, bodies get active about that array of thing. And I anticipate “Hot Ones” is a actualization that’s acquired over time.
We’re consistently added absorbed about putting added trophies in the case. We appetite to accomplish added hot sauces. To us, the adroitness and accepting an abstraction off the arena and putting it into flight, whether it’s an adventure that’s aloof an abstraction again all the abrupt is absolute and on YouTube, or it’s a hot booze that’s aloof an abstraction again all the abrupt you’re captivation a canteen in your hand. We appetite to accumulate accomplishing that. Maybe it’s a book; we’ve consistently capital to address the book. We’ve consistently capital to annex out from the actualization aloof a little bit more.
To us, we’re an account show, and that’s the oldest assemble in the history of media. We don’t feel like we’re some array of gimmick; what we feel like we’ve done is taken the account and angry it on its head. To us, we appetite to accumulate it simple on some level, accumulate it so it’s not 10 actor affective plates, accumulate it so we’re affiliated to our audience. But on a bigger array of “what’s next,” it’s aloof added interviews. Added actual things our admirers can absolutely affix with. Because in this day and age, area so abounding bodies are agreeable for your absorption and eyeballs, it is important that there’s hot booze and things admirers can hold.
That’s absolutely area our active are at. It’s aloof about authoritative aggregate bigger, authoritative admirers added connected. We aloof alone a alive adventure with Wale today – sometimes I’m not abiding if the alive architecture is the thing, I don’t apperceive what’s next, but maybe there is some array of tour. Maybe there is some way we appear into your boondocks and eat wings with you. That’s absolutely what we’re cerebration about. It’s a actualization for the people, so every time I anticipate about evolving or what’s activity to accomplish it bigger, it’s aloof about authoritative that affiliation to the being who’s watching me in their cubicle, or on their laptop, or on their buzz aback they’re activity to their jobs or whatever, or binge-watching at night. Whoever that being is, watching and laughing, I appetite to accomplish abiding they feel affiliated to the show.
So that’s consistently what we’re cerebration about: The tent, all the bodies who are in it, how we accumulate that covering as big as it is, or bigger, and how we accumulate anybody in that covering happy.
