• @JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.eeEnglish
      14•1 year ago

      Hot ones has some great celebrity interviews if you’re into that sort of thing. This video is a very unfunny outlier.

        • @JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.eeEnglish
          14•1 year ago

          I think the hot wings do a couple things, give them a sort of trajectory for the interview, make interviewee more vulnerable, and gimmick for brand recognition. The interviewer is also just really good at his job and asks interesting questions, so it could probably work without that stuff but certainly wouldn’t have the notoriety it currently does.

            • @JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.eeEnglish
              9•1 year ago

              Eating hot wings is a pretty standard food challenge in the states. Many local wings places were doing it long before this YouTube show. (Like “if you can eat this plate of ghost pepper wings you get them for free and your picture on the wall”) I don’t know much about the brand but they definitely were always planning on doing food related things based on the name “first we feast” and this idea makes sense. The interviews are otherwise normal and like I said have this guy who’s a good interviewer. If you’re curious, find a celebrity you like and watch that episode. Or you can just forget the whole thing because I assure you there are much weirder premises for interview shows.

            • goferking (he/him)English
              2•1 year ago

              If it makes you feel better they also didn’t think it would do so well/work when they started.

              Hot Ones has turned from a semi-prank show cracking jokes in a semi-populated corner of the internet to a heavy hitter on the talk-show circuit.

              https://www.eater.com/23045066/hot-ones-celebrity-seasons-show

              Maybe seeing dj kahlid not be able to handle cholula then clowned on for his inhiblity to actually give an answer to any question?

        • anarcho_blinkenist [none/use name]English
          6•1 year ago

          it revolves around making both the host and said interviewee increasingly suffer by way of capsaicin while general interview questions (both career and personal) are asked. they do a “flight” of incrementally-hotter hot sauces until it’s just asinine scoville levels toward the end. idk what the gag is here, if the VA ate wings as the character or what. I don’t care enough to watch it to figure this one out.

            • CloutAtlas [he/him]English
              7•1 year ago

              It’s a few different things combined:

              • Competent host: Sean Evans seems like a perfectly normal guy with above average charisma that isn’t as manufactured as Fake Laugh Fallon or Waitstaff Abuser Cordon. The team also seems to do their research in terms of guests and tend to ask questions they didn’t already just answer in another interview

              • Novel premise: Instead of the host asking raunchy or off cuff questions, the host asks mundane albeit obscure questions regarding the celebrity in question loses composure due to increasing spice. A part of the spectacle is seeing someone famous lose composure in a way that isn’t in a public mental breakdown or substance induced rampage.

              • Generally wholesome: Or at the very least not mean spirited. Despite some dramatic sound effects added after the fact, the show is actually extremely benign and doesn’t antagonize anyone. Fairly accommodating, if the interviewee is vegan they’ll have vegan wings, if they don’t eat processed food they get like fried cauliflower.

              I get the appeal and have seen like 4 or 5 episodes.

                • mbt2402 [none/use name]English
                  8•1 year ago

                  people don’t watch celebrities for intellectual reasons as your comment would seem to expect. Its for the spectacle / parasocial relations / interpassivity. To marx, the substitution of actual social life with the commodity. As such, the value of the commodity is the illusion of realness, and yes seeing them in pain does enhance this via our brains wiring toward empathy.

  • AtomPunk [he/him]English
    13•1 year ago

    If family guy was ever funny, it was seasons 1-3 when it lampooned 70s and 80s pop culture, and even THAT is hard to watch since it’s got its moments of reactionary cow shit. Seriously, watch the “halloween” special on hulu. It’s almost comical how unfunny it is.

  • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]English
    4•1 year ago

    The Donald Duck episode looked like it could be a fun novelty. I haven’t watched it. Seeing this now really feels like their jumping the shark.

    Like, what I saw of the Donald Duck episode seemed really heavily scripted. The thing that makes the show is watching these people try and think under pressure. I really doubt they capture that honest reaction here, I doubt they flew the voice actors out to eat the wings while trying to improvise as the characters.