But I think one of the things is that celebrity is this thing that by definition is an unobtainable lifestyle, it's aspirational, it's on a pedestal.but that is completely subverted when the person is just dying on hot sauce. But I think on the other side of it, there are some unintended consequences that I'm not going to claim we were smart enough to see. As a voyeur, that's just something that you kind of have to click in and watch. Just the idea of the most famous people on earth eating wings soaked in the hottest hot sauces. Why do you think it's been such a huge success? And then here we are, some five-plus years later, a couple of hundred episodes and 14 seasons, and it's all been kind of crazy, but that's how it started. I think probably because just he owed us a favor, and thought it was funny like we thought it was funny. So, we got in a room and we got some pizza and got some beer and started mapping out exactly what that would look like. And he kind of just said, "What do you think of an interview show where we have them eat violently hot chicken wings and they get progressively hotter as the interview goes along?" And then the way it hit my ear was just so funny. How do we make them not boring? So we were just really trying to solve for that, disrupt, and take celebrities out of that PR driven interview pattern. So when we were thinking about what that would look like, me and Chris Schonberger, who runs First We Feast, were thinking celebrity interview shows are boring.
So at the time First We Feast had won some James Beard awards, but it didn’t have much of a video product.
Sean: Well, back in 2014 or whatever, there was a big push in media for everybody to pivot to video. How did the idea for Hot Ones initially come about? Esquire talked to Sean Evans about the silver linings of remote interviews throughout the pandemic, the worst hot sauce reactions he’s ever witnessed, and what’s next for him and Hot Ones. Eating spicy wings makes you vulnerable and real, which along with Evans’ deep-cut questions, has proven to be the ticket to making what is one of the most engaging, hilarious, and smart celebrity interview shows of all time. Hot Ones has shown time and time again that no one, famous or otherwise, is immune to the tongue burning devastation of a supremely spicy hot sauce. The format is simple: Evans and his famous guests eat increasingly hot wings as they answer his deeply researched questions. After fourteen seasons and hundreds of A-List celebrity guests-from Guy Fieri to Paris Hilton-it’s perhaps the last media industry pivot to video effort still thriving. It’s a YouTube empire that has spawned a television game show, a Reebok shoe collection, and a hot sauce line, but hasn't actually changed much at all since its humble inception. The First We Feast show has built up a massive audience, and now gets at least one million views per episode.
I revere classic television, and I'll remember that forever."Īfter premiering in 2015, it's no surprise Hot Ones has reached SNL-parody levels of fame. Hot Ones being immortalized in SNL history is something that's really special to me. "I have this habit of playing the piano on the table when I'm asking questions, and to see that come through on SNL had me dying laughing.
“My favorite thing is that someone from wardrobe at SNL had to source a Sean Evans outfit, and Mikey Day killed it," Evans said. But Beyonce couldn't handle it, and in her distress called the fake Evans a "bald bitch." That was Evans' favorite line of the sketch, he told Esquire. He (played by Mikey Day) was interviewing Beyonce (played by host Maya Rudolph), and the two were making their way through the hottest wings, in his show's trademark style. He turned on the TV, and to his absolute amazement, Saturday Night Live was parodying his immensely popular YouTube interview show. Last Saturday night, Hot Ones host Sean Evans was sitting in his apartment when his phone started blowing up.
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