![]() In his first appearance, Eric Andre also handled his wings pretty well but, of course, added his grumpy-old-man commentary. Mac DeMarco approached his episode like another one of his daredevil activities onstage and managed to be casually funny. In the show’s early stages, guests didn’t even have to be suffering in agony to deliver a good episode-maybe because there were fewer expectations of where the episodes would land beyond YouTube. ![]() (He also has a gallon of milk beside him, which is the funniest part.) In his 2018 episode, Shaquille O’Neal, whose body has obviously been through worse, is similarly shaken and astonished by the intensity of the wings. But overall, she seems genuinely surprised and hilariously terrified by the experience. At one point, she walks offstage and even stands behind the camera, to ask Evans and his producer questions (about herself, of course). During “The Last Dab,” she breaks out into one of her terrible raps. The former-supermodel’s episode, from 2018, is mostly funny and chaotic because she’s funny and chaotic. One of the best examples of this is the episode with Tyra Banks, who mentions that she watched Kevin Hart’s famously dramatic episode but still wasn’t sure whether he was just putting on a performance as a comedian or actually in pain. And when Jake Gyllenhaal, who’s never not doing the most in interviews, sat down across from Evans in April, he came ready to put on a show.īefore Hot Ones started booking Oscar-winning thespians, celebrities seemed a lot more skeptical and genuinely nervous about appearing on a low-budget web show, constantly looking off-screen at their team in a panic. The same occurred with Very Online foodie Florence Pugh, who said she was a fan in her recent episode. But she’s clearly memorized the drill and doesn’t need Evans to guide or support her. Generally, Lawrence seems aware of where Evans is taking her on every stop-not that it’s that particularly hard to follow along. She also mimics Lorde during her Hot Ones episode, where she remained eerily chill and was mostly preoccupied with the flavor of the wings. In the latest episode, Lawrence casually mentions that she watches the show regularly. ![]() In the current era of Hot Ones, eight years after the show premiered, the guests are also way too primed for these moments. ![]() At this point, I spend most of each episode waiting for them to arrive at the hottest wing, hoping for a tearful reaction or, God willing, a large burp. Besides, there are only two routes for guests to go: remain calm and collected or completely lose it around the fourth or fifth taste test. Despite how inherently charming some of its guests are, the novelty of watching celebrities a) eat junk food on-camera and b) lose all control of their physically perfected, expensively dressed bodies is slowly starting to wear off. This means the show has become all too predictable and even tedious to watch. The problem is that the actual eating of spicy wings will always be the most crucial part of Hot Ones, hence the title. But I realized, while watching Lawrence’s episode, that this show has a built-in dilemma with its premise that it can’t really do anything to fix-unless they start making celebrities eat bugs or something (which Nicole Kidman is down to do).
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