9/24/2023 0 Comments Beat hot ones![]() As America's spice wars continue to ramp up, and hot chicken dominates headlines all over the country, "Scovilles" are no longer an esoteric measurement. Maybe it's an equal balance of both perspectives: An art form in knowing just how to hit the heat an athletic maneuver in actually executing your game-plan. Having that baseline understanding is especially helpful in this modern hot-sauce landscape, where hot sauce sommeliers armed with knowledge about Oleoresin Capsicum are the new cognoscenti. Or is tempting fate with chile-laced snacks more of an athletic feat-a bravura display of willpower, strength, and determination in tackling the heat? (Or just plain ignorance.) We might have physically harmed a famous person.ĥ great L.A.Eating spicy foods is a bit of an art form, a delicate dance in the beauty of the burn. We really are operating on the edge, which is part of the draw and the appeal of the whole thing, but it does cross my mind from time to time. There’s always a part of me that kind of thinks this show, what’s going to break down the show is I’m going to get sick, someone is going to get sick or a serious medical issue. ![]() I mean we do give them a bag with, like, a T-shirt. We were, like, no, it’s way funnier if we put them through this and then just give them the only reason they’d come in the first place. We thought, wouldn’t it be funny if this is all for no real reason? Or if we made them work so hard for just the most basic reason for coming through? And everybody who we spoke to about it was, like, you need to give them a big prize. Why is the prize at the end a 30-second plug? But otherwise we’ll just order from Buffalo Wild Wings or whatever. If somebody has a request we’ll fulfill it. We’ve had one vegan celebrity come in, RZA from Wu-Tang Clan, we got him vegan wings. Gunplay, when he was in, he wanted Wing Stop because Rick Ross has a Wing Stop ownership deal or something like that, so we’re usually pretty accommodating. Where do the wings on the show come from? If I want people to pay attention to me, I have to just eat scorching-hot food. I’m not this conventionally attractive TV dude. ![]() And if you can’t handle real salsa then you can just eat dry chips.’ By virtue of this C-, D+ parenting that I had, I ended up kind of building up a tolerance to spice. When I’m a little kid watching Chicago Bears games, hot salsa would be on the table and the first time I was like, ‘Ah, this is hot Dad, get mild salsa,’ and he was like: ‘Not in my house. Growing up my dad would always have hot salsa. I’m not a superhero and I go through it and it sucks at times. People always ask, ‘Do you line your stomach?’ No. How do you prepare yourself for the heat? This is what I’ll go through in the same way Steve-O made a name for himself stapling himself to two-by-fours. People come up to me and say, ‘Hey, you have to try this hot sauce, let’s go get wings.’ I don’t even want to do that for Key and Peele. I became obsessed with Letterman and the interviews.ĭo you eat wings when you’re not doing this? In a weird way this was probably all created because I just want to make my dad laugh the way Letterman made him laugh. I’d make him do this thing whenever the audience laughed, I’d make him pause the VCR and explain the joke to me. My earliest memory as a kid is my dad would tape Letterman during the week and binge-watch them all on a Saturday. If the person sitting at the table finishes the wings, then he or she gets 30 seconds to plug whatever he/she wants. Evans interviews the guest as the two make their way through the hot wings. ![]() The first is the mildest wing the last is the hottest. Both Evans and his guest are presented with a board of 10 wings, all sauced with hot sauce. This is how it works: Somebody famous, maybe Michael Rapaport, comedy duo Key and Peele, Bert Kreischer, DJ Khaled or Kevin Hart, sits across from Evans at a small table. His job: to interview celebrities while he and his interview subject both eat chicken wings coated in sauces with increasing levels of heat. He also once ate an entire Carolina Reaper pepper on camera with a well-known Danish chile fanatic named Chili Klaus.Ī little more than a year ago, Evans became the host of a YouTube series called “ Hot Ones,” produced by and Complex Media, which airs every Thursday. He’s a 30-year-old from Chicago who is especially adept at eating hot wings.
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