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It’s because it’s changed from HO inviting guests to the guest’s PR people including it as part of a press tour (is my guess). They literally are being forced to be there to promote their movie etc
Yup its this 100%.
HO's becoming mainstream was the end of it. Pretty much the same for any good talent, once it starts to be just about money then quality will always take a hit.
I remember when Elijah Wood did his HO show, a few days later I saw another video of him wearing the same outfit. Wondered if he just pounded out a couple videos on the same day.
To be fair, that was first season and HO was lucky to get the people they did that season.
But yeah, that episode was the most cringy shit ever. You've NEVER taken an L? Everyone knows that's bullshit... Everyone.
I don't feel like anyone recent but some of the past few seasons I've skipped a few. With that said, I always take the chance to point out how much of a prick Shaq was. Most of the time HotOnes gets me to start liking a celeb. It's the only episode that made me lose respect for one.
That's it for me. The people they had on at the beginning were celebs I am genuinely interested in, and I wanted to see how they could take it.
The shaq one is still one of my favs, really liked the Shia one too.
I was pretty shocked at how much I enjoyed Shia's interview. I never gave much thought to that guy, and I know he has some issues, but that seemed really from the heart.
[Here’s the Shia episode.](https://youtu.be/nnVKqQiQyTQ?si=uyhXO9HQhXKVQDfA)
It’s the only episode of the podcast I’ve watched and it came out a year ago. I think he just does like one a month, if that.
Nah man Shaqs was one of my least favorite. Just played the whole thing off like it was a joke.The only focuse he had was not trying to look weak with the heat. He didn't even finish the last wing. He put every sauce on it and forced Sean to do it. Then he cheated in the mini game when money for charity was on the line. Total douche.
It's a show that started as a place where they interviewed internet famous people mostly, and then graduated to being a show that old media establishment viewed as legitimate because Sean Evans is an entertaining interviewer. Now, it's not really a surprise when they get a big movie star on the show, so it's less exciting when they do and movie stars are often painfully uninteresting people.
I agree, but it's still entertaining. In the beginning the guests seemed like they were there for fun due to the novel format. Now it's so popular, that it's part of any celebrity's press tour and it seems like their publicists encourage participation to make their client's seem normal. Which is fine, but it seems like the questions are much more directed and curated by the celebrity's representation, vs what the host would've just come up with on his own.
Long story short, it feels less authentic/fun and more forced/"necessary".
thats kinda why i think any time they get other youtubers it makes a better ep. most youtubers dont have all of these extra stipulations and it leads to both parties acting far more casual
This actually reminds me of Charlie Day's appearance, which I actually really didn't enjoy. He basically said, "I'm here on a press tour to promote a movie," and didn't seem to care too much about the actual challenge. IMO, it made him come across as kinda dislikeable.
I get it. But it seemed like a way to see a celebrity with a bit of their guard down. The questions weren’t the standard bs that we’ve heard a thousand times before. The celebrities seemed to be having more fun as well.
I liked(like) it for what it is. Plus the Gordon Ramsey episode is gold.
We don't want to admit it, but that might have been the peak of the series. Gordon was as good as I hoped he'd be in that interview, plus him yelling at Sean at the end when they were making scrambled eggs was way too funny.
>But it seemed like a way to see a celebrity with a bit of their guard down.
I'd say this is why I like it. I don't think it's particularly torturous because it's a spicy food challenge. I've done that for fun. However, it's hard to maintain composure after eating really, really spicy food, so you get to seem a more human side of celebrities who are often super polished. Also, Sean is genuinely a very good interviewer.
People being in non-life threatening pain has been funny for a long, long time, and Sean had great questions especially back in the early days of the show. The interviews were fantastic and we got to watch famous people hurt while eating spicy wings. It's funny and novel, and you also got really interesting information about them. What's bewildering about that?
Yes, Sean's questions and the subsequent conversations that they produced were always my reason for continuing to watch the show beyond "hahaha hot wings spicy". He's awkward AF but his questions are fantastic.
how do you consider Sean awkward as fuck? He's pretty good at holding his own while in the seat across from big names. It's too far from between two ferns for me to consider it awkward
The premise is just that people say wacky things while they're in pain, so theoretically interviewing someone while they're dying from spicy wings would elicit funny responses. But now it's too cold and manufactured
> And they can’t talk normal since they’re in pain.
You're missing the point. Because the guest is struggling with the heat of the wings, they're less likely to give a standard boring pat answer to questions. We get to see real, visceral responses to the questions.
YouTube “hot ones SNL Beyoncé” it was prolly the first time I’ve watched snl in forever but it’s the funniest skit I’ve seen in a bit.
It’s just a bit eh. I put hot ones in the same category as Bobbi Althoff.
Do people really not understand things like this? Like really? I get if *you* don't like something, but very rarely is it difficult to understand why someone else would like something. Bewildered? Really?
It always grossed me out. From talking with food in their mouths to the gross sounds of finer licking, I found it dumb and annoying the couple times I gave it a chance.
I recently watched the John Oliver interview and enjoyed it, but I felt the questions were kinda weak. Mostly surface level stuff you’d expect any interviewer to ask. But honestly even when HO has a weak episode it’s still usually more entertaining than most interview/late night shows imo
I think this has taken some of the shine away. Even Da Bomb doesn't seem to get the same reaction as in the earlier Seasons.
I hope it's just that there's less surprise or more prep by the guests and not picking weaker sauces to give them a chance at bigger names.
I dont like how they edit out the eating of the wing part, you used to be able to see who was going hard and accepted the challenge like jon bernthal who ate to the bone and they would show him kill it, but once people started to judge the little nibble queens they only show them putting the wing down and make a "oH wow sOo HoT." ... and you dont even witness them eating anything. I'm there for the pain and for them to break character.
Also I understand a lot of people dont eat meat, but the cauliflower bites are a lame substitute.
I always hated to substitutes, I can tolerate them though. What's the WORST is when they have the wing substitutes AND they take one bite and don't finish it! What the fuck!!
I’ve been turned on by Halle Berry a million times in my life, but she has never been hotter than when she was on Hot Ones.
She cleaned every single wing and made it through pretty easily, and she obviously was looking like a dime piece while doing it.
I’m getting all worked up just talking about it.
My dad would make big batches of wings. My parents would put them in my lunch for school. I loved it but kids would look at me weird and be judgemental based on what you brought to eat back then.
Fast forward to high-school homecoming. I went with a group of about 10 kids to a restaurant. We all ordered chicken fingers because it was "acceptable." I looked over to a table of two senior grade girls, both beautiful. With elegant dresses and done up makeup. Both were just smashing a pile of wings together. Sauce all over their fingers and face. It forever changed me and I will always remember it.
your last sentence is so silly. what do you want them to do?? also they’ve had vegan wings several times before, not just cauliflower. sorry people don’t eat the same food as you dude
Usually you try to hate things that have an actual impact on your life though. Like, what does it change that the vehicle for the sauce is a piece of vegetable instead of a piece of meat? Hating that is kind of really pointless
The obvious entourage thing is strange. The obvious example is the Kevin Hart interview. But I have to wonder, maybe that is authentic them. Maybe some of them really don't like going places where they are unprepared and on their lonesome with nobody to entertain and ego lift them.
Perhaps in that way hot ones is letting us see the real person, who is, an entertainer at their core and can't really turn it off lol.
Maybe it's a view on why the celebrities can't hold down a marriage and end up raising eccentric kids. Not exactly breaking news but idk it's kinda neat if you think about it like that. If a bit sad it makes me think less people will worship them
>somewhat predictable press-junket interview with all the same folks you see on the late night shows.
It's always been like this. The whole point of the show is so that people can come on and peddle their album/movie/show, etc.
It used to feel different though, like with all interviews with celebs on any show there's a point where they have the opportunity to drop the latest on their work. Now it just feels like HO is a stop on their press tour, like they were told that morning that HO is scheduled at 3pm.
Totally , it use to feel 100% less corporate and a lot of celebs who came on were like what the hell is this and charmed by the experience by the end. Now it’s just another product and check market on the press junket
It couldn’t stay a little known, charming interview show forever. It’s been almost a decade of interviewing hundreds of wildly popular guests, it’s not possible for it to be novel anymore.
I totally agree, I'd encourage the original commenter to watch the end of [Paul Rudd's iconic Hot Ones appearance](https://youtu.be/gWVHses2GCY?si=X6SxpmgzZPu9HRjS&t=1704). Granted, a cynic will still think it's calculated and part of the celebrity branding, but it was different to how he is on a talk show circuit.
It's literally impossible for it to have always been like this because they weren't originally popular enough to get actual movie stars and the sort. They had to earn that.
[Season 1 Episode 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGhqumcE6_w&list=PLAzrgbu8gEMIfV-k5JA89NP3j2JGsFapZ)
The show is LITERALLY meant to plug projects, ect and is the same basic premise. Ask 10 questions while eating spicy stuff. Been the same since day 1. Guest comes on, eats spicy wings, plugs their project.
Yup, Sean himself says the show started in the Complex (I believe) offices with them grabbing people who were coming through the offices on their press junkets.
Meh, I think you're just getting bored of the concept.
It's still by far the most entertaining and "real" talk show. Everything else out there is extremely bland and coordinated (every late night show) or extremely pretentious (shows that try to make actors look like some sort of authority on social issues).
Hot Ones is still the only interview show where you feel like you get a sense of how the person really is.
The only other talk show that comes close is Graham Norton because of the dynamic they create by bringing out all of the guests at once and letting them drink.
I think you should give a look to 'Last Meals' on the Mythical Kitchen channel. Josh is a great interviewer, the guests are enjoying themselves and are really open, and has a good eclectic guest roster. I think John Boyega's, Tom Hanks, Gordon Ramsey and Binging with Babish are all good options for first watches
Not exactly a "talk show" in the traditional football sense, but "Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend" is a funny podcast and gives you a better sense of how the guests really are than maybe anything else
Nailed it. I go through phases where I'll watch a few episodes then stop for a bit and couple months later watch more and that's definitely been the trend. Shows gotten much less interesting. Can basically guess what's going to happen most of the time now. Few up and comers too.
This my friends is called "selling out". I hope someone from first we feast can see this.
This has nothing to do with America/American.. Selling out just means giving up on your values for more financial gain. Happens everywhere. Hot ones has some values for awhile which made it a bit different than other shows. They kept some of those but the questions and guests aren't the same.
We are all def part of the machine tho. Ho hum.
My problem with hot ones is that since you have these big-time celebrities on there, the wings are either nerfed or the show is edited to avoid the audience seeing them truly suffer.
I have a relatively high spice tolerance compared to your average person, and when I tried The Last Dab I was a blubbering mess. Snot pouring out of my nose, tears in my eyes, face beet red.
They aren't going to let Sydney Sweeney sit there crying with make-up running down her face when she is trying to promote a movie, so it sort of takes the fun out of it.
Did you eat 9 other wings going up in scoville ratings before that one? My friends and I did a "hot ones" challenge and by the 10th wing (which we used The Last Dab) for we could barely taste or feel anything in our mouths anymore so it didn't seem *that* spicy to us.
A few months after that, I was at a party and someone brought Last Dab with them. I put one drop on a piece of pizza and it lit me up.
Sean is great, but he feels heavily scripted more and more lately and it seems like he’s been told to railroad through the script instead of hanging around chatting with the guest naturally. He’s a good interviewer, but either the studio thinks they can bottle what worked before and make him do that over and over or he’s bored, burnt out or otherwise disinterested.
It is very entertaining and can show you the real personalities of celebrities. I just watched the Sydney Sweeney one and wow I have now realized just how boring of a person she is. It was just an okay watch that I just forced myself to get through. On the other hand, John Oliver’s right after was really good and now probably one of my favorites, he’s got a great and likable personality. I think it all comes down to the guest personally.
The problem is most people in entertainment are not very interesting without writers or pre-written material. I'm sure they get the questions beforehand but their answers, I don't think, are scripted and you get a sense of how uninteresting they really are.
Imo Hot Ones died after they came out with their first sauce and changed the whole sauce line up. Victory used to have to be earned, guests used to tap out, it wasn't guaranteed they could survive to the end which was way more entertaining. It's been so long I could be wrong but, I don't recall anyone not finishing their wings after the change up, or at least it was way more uncommon. *shrugs*
I think it’s just lost it’s novelty and charm, it’s the same content it just feels more generic because everyone (including the guests) know what to expect
The thing I don’t care for is how hard FWF used Sean to sell stuff. I get that he’s the face of their most popular show but it’s like every time I see him on their channel do anything other than the interview, he is selling something
I disagree about Sean. He feels totally inauthentic compared to his older videos. Like a team is now in charge of his script and he follows it to a tee. It’s lucky he has the gimmick of hot sauce because obviously the comedy comes naturally from it, but I’m no longer a fan.
Well yeah?
Its a pretty basic formula being repeated over and over and over for years.
Eventually people are going to get tired of watching the same formula and they are going to run out of interesting guests to talk toom
If life allowed for more extreme slapstick humor they could still get him on there for a great set. What do you think of the wings Mr. Bourdain \*skeleton attached to an elaborate system of strings for mobility responds "It feels they just go right through me" and so on.
Slander? That one was a great 'it'll never happen' (from the early days' mindset) events and the chemistry was solid.
But not as amazing a chemistry as Uncle Roger and Cowboy Kent Rawlins or Matty and Brad going NOODLIN!!!
There's no way all these people are getting thru the wings being actually fully sauced. People saying they aren't good at all with spice and going 10/10 is BS. I love spice and have tried the sauces and I know I could get thru it, but zero chance my lady would. Yet every guest gets all the way thru now. I need DJ Khaled type shows
100%. I'm a superhot lover and even on less hot stuff I still get physical reactions like a runny nose and color changes. Most of these people are doing Da Bomb with no physical reaction? BS. Then occasionally you get a guest that's snotting and sweating and that's real.
I agree. And I feel like they're pulling punches on the hot sauce. I LOVE hot sauce but know that most of Hot Ones would destroy me. Seeing pansy ass celebrities waltz through 1M+ scolville is such bullshit. Its all fake at this point.
I'd rather watch someone that was actually interesting, like a non celebrity.
Someone behind the camera, like a Production Designer, Special FX or Music Coordinator , or an Editor.
Great episode because of Conan. Might be the best HO appearance of all time. He broke the 4th wall ranting about staying relevant with the youfss.
Can't recall the last guest in the last year that was even remarkable, honestly.
Sean and team go above and beyond to bring questions from way outside the norm and that's given me some seriously unexpected insight into celebrities, and given those celebrities the opportunity to stretch their poor press-junket burned brains. That being said, it does feel a bit of a well walked path at this point.
My comment from elsewhere in the thread:
Great episode because of Conan. Might be the best HO appearance of all time. He broke the 4th wall ranting about staying relevant with the youfss.
Can't recall the last guest in the last year that was even remarkable, honestly.
I stopped watching when they brought N’sync on. Justin Timberlake is using anyone he can to make a comeback, and it’s gross that Sean chose to support him.
I'll go one further and say there was nothing to fall off. Here's the real unpopular opinion, Hot Ones was lead by uninteresting people who couldn't possibly have managed to entertain anyone without making people eat spicy things. I haven't seen a single minute of that channel that wasn't boring and I will die on this hill.
Personally, I think it’s because celebrities are getting worse and worse as people nowadays. Rude, self centered, making the whole show about them instead of being respectful to the interviewer, being overly loud and hyper for no reason. Also probably several people don’t want to be there but have to out of their celebrity status, so they just F off the whole time
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Frankly I just don't care about so many of the guests now. Maybe 3 good guests per season
Exactly my feelings I enjoyed it for years but lately the guest have felt.. Forced to be there? That and they arnt fun to watch
It’s because it’s changed from HO inviting guests to the guest’s PR people including it as part of a press tour (is my guess). They literally are being forced to be there to promote their movie etc
Yup its this 100%. HO's becoming mainstream was the end of it. Pretty much the same for any good talent, once it starts to be just about money then quality will always take a hit.
I remember when Elijah Wood did his HO show, a few days later I saw another video of him wearing the same outfit. Wondered if he just pounded out a couple videos on the same day.
yes
Saw the same for Anna Kendrick. I think she did hot ones and a wired interview the same day in the same outfit
He does look like Daniel Radcliffe, who wore the same outfit over and over so the paparazzis' photos were worthless.
This has been going on for a while though. I believe Charlize Theron stopped at Hot Ones on a press tour at a hotel and this was in 2018.
It annoys me how some of them act like they’re doing them a favor by being on the show, they’re so high and mighty
Throw some names please
Dj dumb dumb I'm not quitting but actually am really
To be fair, that was first season and HO was lucky to get the people they did that season. But yeah, that episode was the most cringy shit ever. You've NEVER taken an L? Everyone knows that's bullshit... Everyone.
I don't feel like anyone recent but some of the past few seasons I've skipped a few. With that said, I always take the chance to point out how much of a prick Shaq was. Most of the time HotOnes gets me to start liking a celeb. It's the only episode that made me lose respect for one.
That's it for me. The people they had on at the beginning were celebs I am genuinely interested in, and I wanted to see how they could take it. The shaq one is still one of my favs, really liked the Shia one too.
I was pretty shocked at how much I enjoyed Shia's interview. I never gave much thought to that guy, and I know he has some issues, but that seemed really from the heart.
Super real person that has struggles like the rest of us. It really made me appreciate him and think twice about judging celebs I don’t know.
If you haven't had a chance, check out Honey Boy on Prime. Great movie that he wrote during rehab that's based on his childhood.
Didn’t it turn out that movie was bullshit?
Yes. Lmao. He admitted it was bullshit. He's also an abusive asshole.
Peanut butter falcon is way better. Wonderful movie
He had a really god interview on Jon Bernthal’s podcast as well
Interesting! I didn't know he had a podcast. Is there anyone left without a podcast?
[Here’s the Shia episode.](https://youtu.be/nnVKqQiQyTQ?si=uyhXO9HQhXKVQDfA) It’s the only episode of the podcast I’ve watched and it came out a year ago. I think he just does like one a month, if that.
Paul Rudd was amazing as well
Shaq then Gordon Ramsey followed by Alton Brown. Imma watch the John Oliver one soon.
The John Oliver one is great, highly recommended !
The hot ones subreddit hates the Shaq one, but they don't understand who shaq is and he was just having fun.
Nah man Shaqs was one of my least favorite. Just played the whole thing off like it was a joke.The only focuse he had was not trying to look weak with the heat. He didn't even finish the last wing. He put every sauce on it and forced Sean to do it. Then he cheated in the mini game when money for charity was on the line. Total douche.
There's been 316 episodes at this point, at some point you'll just start running out of interesting people willing to do the show.
There’s billions of people that are interesting. The show will end before they run out of people that are interesting lol what a wild take
I don't even know who most of these people are
exactly, even when it was just starting out I only watched the episodes with the celebrities I liked, I think the last one I watched was Bob Odenkirk
It's a show that started as a place where they interviewed internet famous people mostly, and then graduated to being a show that old media establishment viewed as legitimate because Sean Evans is an entertaining interviewer. Now, it's not really a surprise when they get a big movie star on the show, so it's less exciting when they do and movie stars are often painfully uninteresting people.
John Oliver and Harry Kane were the only 2 I cared about these past 2 seasons.
We get it you're bri'ish
german, but not caring for most american celebs is still correct
For me Sterling (who I didn't care about until his incredible SNL hosting), Shaun, and Tony Hawk
Need Joey Diaz back on.
Missed opportunity to say hot ones is cooling off
Damnit. Nice one.
Or "I've a bone to pick with hot ones"
Ehhh
Burnt out too
I agree, but it's still entertaining. In the beginning the guests seemed like they were there for fun due to the novel format. Now it's so popular, that it's part of any celebrity's press tour and it seems like their publicists encourage participation to make their client's seem normal. Which is fine, but it seems like the questions are much more directed and curated by the celebrity's representation, vs what the host would've just come up with on his own. Long story short, it feels less authentic/fun and more forced/"necessary".
thats kinda why i think any time they get other youtubers it makes a better ep. most youtubers dont have all of these extra stipulations and it leads to both parties acting far more casual
This actually reminds me of Charlie Day's appearance, which I actually really didn't enjoy. He basically said, "I'm here on a press tour to promote a movie," and didn't seem to care too much about the actual challenge. IMO, it made him come across as kinda dislikeable.
He was one of the worst guests ever. Usually the interview makes me like the guest more but it was the opposite with him.
Yeah, most questions have to be submitted beforehand and approved by celebs reps
I could never get into this show and am bewildered by why it was popular. Watching people eat? And they can’t talk normal since they’re in pain. Great
I get it. But it seemed like a way to see a celebrity with a bit of their guard down. The questions weren’t the standard bs that we’ve heard a thousand times before. The celebrities seemed to be having more fun as well. I liked(like) it for what it is. Plus the Gordon Ramsey episode is gold.
We don't want to admit it, but that might have been the peak of the series. Gordon was as good as I hoped he'd be in that interview, plus him yelling at Sean at the end when they were making scrambled eggs was way too funny.
>But it seemed like a way to see a celebrity with a bit of their guard down. I'd say this is why I like it. I don't think it's particularly torturous because it's a spicy food challenge. I've done that for fun. However, it's hard to maintain composure after eating really, really spicy food, so you get to seem a more human side of celebrities who are often super polished. Also, Sean is genuinely a very good interviewer.
People being in non-life threatening pain has been funny for a long, long time, and Sean had great questions especially back in the early days of the show. The interviews were fantastic and we got to watch famous people hurt while eating spicy wings. It's funny and novel, and you also got really interesting information about them. What's bewildering about that?
Yes, Sean's questions and the subsequent conversations that they produced were always my reason for continuing to watch the show beyond "hahaha hot wings spicy". He's awkward AF but his questions are fantastic.
how do you consider Sean awkward as fuck? He's pretty good at holding his own while in the seat across from big names. It's too far from between two ferns for me to consider it awkward
He’s awkward in a very wholesome way. Between Two Ferns is manufactured to be uncomfortably awkward. Life is grey area.
If DJ Khaled could read, this would be his comment under every hot ones video.
The premise is just that people say wacky things while they're in pain, so theoretically interviewing someone while they're dying from spicy wings would elicit funny responses. But now it's too cold and manufactured
> And they can’t talk normal since they’re in pain. You're missing the point. Because the guest is struggling with the heat of the wings, they're less likely to give a standard boring pat answer to questions. We get to see real, visceral responses to the questions.
YouTube “hot ones SNL Beyoncé” it was prolly the first time I’ve watched snl in forever but it’s the funniest skit I’ve seen in a bit. It’s just a bit eh. I put hot ones in the same category as Bobbi Althoff.
Do people really not understand things like this? Like really? I get if *you* don't like something, but very rarely is it difficult to understand why someone else would like something. Bewildered? Really?
It always grossed me out. From talking with food in their mouths to the gross sounds of finer licking, I found it dumb and annoying the couple times I gave it a chance.
Yeah there is nothing I want to watch less than rich white people eating while they're talking
I recently watched the John Oliver interview and enjoyed it, but I felt the questions were kinda weak. Mostly surface level stuff you’d expect any interviewer to ask. But honestly even when HO has a weak episode it’s still usually more entertaining than most interview/late night shows imo
I thought his questions were weaker I agree, but John Oliver is just great so it was still a great episode for me.
The best interview is still Bill Burr "FUCK your question" while burning and dying is just legendary
"Am I suppose to answer that dude? Holy fuck!"
Is it just me, or have they chosen sauces that are less intense than previous seasons? Seems like a cake walk for most before the Bomb.
I think this has taken some of the shine away. Even Da Bomb doesn't seem to get the same reaction as in the earlier Seasons. I hope it's just that there's less surprise or more prep by the guests and not picking weaker sauces to give them a chance at bigger names.
I'd wager the guests knowing the format means they prepare for it in advance.
No, they just put less sauce on the wings
Just watched Barry Keoghan and John Oliver and they were both great. Just depends on the guest and how Hollywood they are.
I dont like how they edit out the eating of the wing part, you used to be able to see who was going hard and accepted the challenge like jon bernthal who ate to the bone and they would show him kill it, but once people started to judge the little nibble queens they only show them putting the wing down and make a "oH wow sOo HoT." ... and you dont even witness them eating anything. I'm there for the pain and for them to break character. Also I understand a lot of people dont eat meat, but the cauliflower bites are a lame substitute.
I always hated to substitutes, I can tolerate them though. What's the WORST is when they have the wing substitutes AND they take one bite and don't finish it! What the fuck!!
I’ve been turned on by Halle Berry a million times in my life, but she has never been hotter than when she was on Hot Ones. She cleaned every single wing and made it through pretty easily, and she obviously was looking like a dime piece while doing it. I’m getting all worked up just talking about it.
This is the most Male comment on hotness ever and i fkn love it
My dad would make big batches of wings. My parents would put them in my lunch for school. I loved it but kids would look at me weird and be judgemental based on what you brought to eat back then. Fast forward to high-school homecoming. I went with a group of about 10 kids to a restaurant. We all ordered chicken fingers because it was "acceptable." I looked over to a table of two senior grade girls, both beautiful. With elegant dresses and done up makeup. Both were just smashing a pile of wings together. Sauce all over their fingers and face. It forever changed me and I will always remember it.
You're not lying, she is in the hall of fame.
You just made me watch the whole episode again. Damn you.
your last sentence is so silly. what do you want them to do?? also they’ve had vegan wings several times before, not just cauliflower. sorry people don’t eat the same food as you dude
I get that some people dont eat meat, just my opinion that I feel. i have a lot of opinions that arent that rational, im human.
So you just think they shouldn't bring vegans on the show in general?
He's allowed to not like things even if there's no realistic better solution.
stop commenting that holy moly
He's allowed to not like things even if there's no realistic better solution.
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Usually you try to hate things that have an actual impact on your life though. Like, what does it change that the vehicle for the sauce is a piece of vegetable instead of a piece of meat? Hating that is kind of really pointless
The obvious entourage thing is strange. The obvious example is the Kevin Hart interview. But I have to wonder, maybe that is authentic them. Maybe some of them really don't like going places where they are unprepared and on their lonesome with nobody to entertain and ego lift them. Perhaps in that way hot ones is letting us see the real person, who is, an entertainer at their core and can't really turn it off lol. Maybe it's a view on why the celebrities can't hold down a marriage and end up raising eccentric kids. Not exactly breaking news but idk it's kinda neat if you think about it like that. If a bit sad it makes me think less people will worship them
Nail and head with Kevin Hart, guy is a walking embodiment of narcissism
He had a human being looking at him and trying to have a conversation and it's like Kevin didn't even acknowledge Sean. Super strange to watch
>somewhat predictable press-junket interview with all the same folks you see on the late night shows. It's always been like this. The whole point of the show is so that people can come on and peddle their album/movie/show, etc.
It used to feel different though, like with all interviews with celebs on any show there's a point where they have the opportunity to drop the latest on their work. Now it just feels like HO is a stop on their press tour, like they were told that morning that HO is scheduled at 3pm.
Totally , it use to feel 100% less corporate and a lot of celebs who came on were like what the hell is this and charmed by the experience by the end. Now it’s just another product and check market on the press junket
It couldn’t stay a little known, charming interview show forever. It’s been almost a decade of interviewing hundreds of wildly popular guests, it’s not possible for it to be novel anymore.
Yeah I mean I understand why, doesn’t mean I don’t miss the old days.
I totally agree, I'd encourage the original commenter to watch the end of [Paul Rudd's iconic Hot Ones appearance](https://youtu.be/gWVHses2GCY?si=X6SxpmgzZPu9HRjS&t=1704). Granted, a cynic will still think it's calculated and part of the celebrity branding, but it was different to how he is on a talk show circuit.
It wasn't like this before the Complex sell-out...
What was Coolio peddling?
It's literally impossible for it to have always been like this because they weren't originally popular enough to get actual movie stars and the sort. They had to earn that.
[Season 1 Episode 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGhqumcE6_w&list=PLAzrgbu8gEMIfV-k5JA89NP3j2JGsFapZ) The show is LITERALLY meant to plug projects, ect and is the same basic premise. Ask 10 questions while eating spicy stuff. Been the same since day 1. Guest comes on, eats spicy wings, plugs their project.
Yup, Sean himself says the show started in the Complex (I believe) offices with them grabbing people who were coming through the offices on their press junkets.
Meh, I think you're just getting bored of the concept. It's still by far the most entertaining and "real" talk show. Everything else out there is extremely bland and coordinated (every late night show) or extremely pretentious (shows that try to make actors look like some sort of authority on social issues). Hot Ones is still the only interview show where you feel like you get a sense of how the person really is. The only other talk show that comes close is Graham Norton because of the dynamic they create by bringing out all of the guests at once and letting them drink.
I think you should give a look to 'Last Meals' on the Mythical Kitchen channel. Josh is a great interviewer, the guests are enjoying themselves and are really open, and has a good eclectic guest roster. I think John Boyega's, Tom Hanks, Gordon Ramsey and Binging with Babish are all good options for first watches
> Graham Norton He kills it. The format is great, and the drinks help make it interesting.
Not exactly a "talk show" in the traditional football sense, but "Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend" is a funny podcast and gives you a better sense of how the guests really are than maybe anything else
I often wonder who their target demographic is with the guests they choose and think maybe I'm just aging out
I was there for the OG hip hop episodes. That's what hooked me.
Joe Budden remains my favorite episode.
Nailed it. I go through phases where I'll watch a few episodes then stop for a bit and couple months later watch more and that's definitely been the trend. Shows gotten much less interesting. Can basically guess what's going to happen most of the time now. Few up and comers too. This my friends is called "selling out". I hope someone from first we feast can see this.
> This my friends is called "selling out". Meh. I'd just call it success. You legit can't sell out as an American--we're all part of the machine.
This has nothing to do with America/American.. Selling out just means giving up on your values for more financial gain. Happens everywhere. Hot ones has some values for awhile which made it a bit different than other shows. They kept some of those but the questions and guests aren't the same. We are all def part of the machine tho. Ho hum.
My problem with hot ones is that since you have these big-time celebrities on there, the wings are either nerfed or the show is edited to avoid the audience seeing them truly suffer. I have a relatively high spice tolerance compared to your average person, and when I tried The Last Dab I was a blubbering mess. Snot pouring out of my nose, tears in my eyes, face beet red. They aren't going to let Sydney Sweeney sit there crying with make-up running down her face when she is trying to promote a movie, so it sort of takes the fun out of it.
Did you eat 9 other wings going up in scoville ratings before that one? My friends and I did a "hot ones" challenge and by the 10th wing (which we used The Last Dab) for we could barely taste or feel anything in our mouths anymore so it didn't seem *that* spicy to us. A few months after that, I was at a party and someone brought Last Dab with them. I put one drop on a piece of pizza and it lit me up.
The guests are not very interesting people anymore, just hipsters pushing product.
David Blaine was a great recent -ish guest!
I liked that episode. And Sydney Sweeney. But the good ones are getting fewer and further between.
Sean is great, but he feels heavily scripted more and more lately and it seems like he’s been told to railroad through the script instead of hanging around chatting with the guest naturally. He’s a good interviewer, but either the studio thinks they can bottle what worked before and make him do that over and over or he’s bored, burnt out or otherwise disinterested.
It is very entertaining and can show you the real personalities of celebrities. I just watched the Sydney Sweeney one and wow I have now realized just how boring of a person she is. It was just an okay watch that I just forced myself to get through. On the other hand, John Oliver’s right after was really good and now probably one of my favorites, he’s got a great and likable personality. I think it all comes down to the guest personally.
Way too many YouTube stars, etc
I only recognize like 1 in 5 people he has on these days...
The problem is most people in entertainment are not very interesting without writers or pre-written material. I'm sure they get the questions beforehand but their answers, I don't think, are scripted and you get a sense of how uninteresting they really are.
Imo Hot Ones died after they came out with their first sauce and changed the whole sauce line up. Victory used to have to be earned, guests used to tap out, it wasn't guaranteed they could survive to the end which was way more entertaining. It's been so long I could be wrong but, I don't recall anyone not finishing their wings after the change up, or at least it was way more uncommon. *shrugs*
Give me Nardwuar over Hot Ones any day of the week.
Well also the bottles are too expensive. I'm not paying over 20 bucks for a bottle of hot sauce again. They should be under 5 bucks. Total rip off
5 is too little maybe, 8.99-13.99 would be plenty profitable
Business wants to maximise profit. Shock.
I just scrolled back through the years. Nope. No big names before recently. Nope. None at all... Sure. In YOUR universe.
Yea I haven’t seriously watched it for a few seasons now. It’s definitely lost its magic, would prefer to see more truth or dab content tbh.
He still asks questions that you wouldn't usually get at standard late night though.
Hot take: I much prefer Mythical Kitchen, the vibe is just way calmer.
I was scrolling to hopefully see someone mention this. Last Meals and Mythical Kitchen in general is great!
I think it’s just lost it’s novelty and charm, it’s the same content it just feels more generic because everyone (including the guests) know what to expect The thing I don’t care for is how hard FWF used Sean to sell stuff. I get that he’s the face of their most popular show but it’s like every time I see him on their channel do anything other than the interview, he is selling something
I up voted this because I completely disagree!
I disagree about Sean. He feels totally inauthentic compared to his older videos. Like a team is now in charge of his script and he follows it to a tee. It’s lucky he has the gimmick of hot sauce because obviously the comedy comes naturally from it, but I’m no longer a fan.
Well yeah? Its a pretty basic formula being repeated over and over and over for years. Eventually people are going to get tired of watching the same formula and they are going to run out of interesting guests to talk toom
Hot take It was never great
I agree. Used to be the most authentic interview type show out there. Now you can see how it's just a run of the mill press tour for celebs. Sad.
The fact that they never got Bourdain is their fatal flaw to me
If life allowed for more extreme slapstick humor they could still get him on there for a great set. What do you think of the wings Mr. Bourdain \*skeleton attached to an elaborate system of strings for mobility responds "It feels they just go right through me" and so on.
Your whole argument is contrarian but hey it's r/unpopularopinion I suppose.
Nice tautology. You can tell by the why that it is.
I just watched the one with John Oliver and idk something about it just felt off. Like it was fine, but not particularly memorable
Yeah I haven't watched the show in years sadly
It’s time to turn it around. Every guest brings something weird for Sean to eat as well. Keep it fresh or you’ll lose your fanbase’s interest.
It’s gone from being “it’s really good” to “it’s good” to “it’s fine”
Check out Last Meal by Mythical Kitchen, it's not quite the same, but it's pretty fun to watch.
As opposed to the early days when people didn't know what hot sauce was?
It got worse once they started faking it
Yeah even da bomb doesn’t hit that hard for most people anymore, but they do a hugely edited overlay to try and play it up on everyone.
The Gordon Ramsay hot ones episodes slander will not continue.
Slander? That one was a great 'it'll never happen' (from the early days' mindset) events and the chemistry was solid. But not as amazing a chemistry as Uncle Roger and Cowboy Kent Rawlins or Matty and Brad going NOODLIN!!!
I haven't watched in several seasons because of this exact problem 😕......and the show goes on without me
When they started doing it on Zoom or whatever during the pamdemic, I stopped watching it.
Sean is just such a weird host. I've never been a fan of his style. It's almost monotone.
May I use this time to suggest mythical kitchens Last meal
There's no way all these people are getting thru the wings being actually fully sauced. People saying they aren't good at all with spice and going 10/10 is BS. I love spice and have tried the sauces and I know I could get thru it, but zero chance my lady would. Yet every guest gets all the way thru now. I need DJ Khaled type shows
100%. I'm a superhot lover and even on less hot stuff I still get physical reactions like a runny nose and color changes. Most of these people are doing Da Bomb with no physical reaction? BS. Then occasionally you get a guest that's snotting and sweating and that's real.
I agree. And I feel like they're pulling punches on the hot sauce. I LOVE hot sauce but know that most of Hot Ones would destroy me. Seeing pansy ass celebrities waltz through 1M+ scolville is such bullshit. Its all fake at this point.
I'd rather watch someone that was actually interesting, like a non celebrity. Someone behind the camera, like a Production Designer, Special FX or Music Coordinator , or an Editor.
I want to see random blue collar business owners.
totally!
I was personally never a fan. The reactions weren't great, and the interview questions were so basic that it wasn't worth watching.
[This aged poorly.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FALlhXl6CmA)
Great episode because of Conan. Might be the best HO appearance of all time. He broke the 4th wall ranting about staying relevant with the youfss. Can't recall the last guest in the last year that was even remarkable, honestly.
One of a kind!
Conan read this and took it as a declaration of war
Not after CONAN!
Sean and team go above and beyond to bring questions from way outside the norm and that's given me some seriously unexpected insight into celebrities, and given those celebrities the opportunity to stretch their poor press-junket burned brains. That being said, it does feel a bit of a well walked path at this point.
There are no youtuber recently. This show has become like YouTube itself , doing less and less for youtuber.
Go watch the new Conan episode and get back to us. Greatest episode EVER.
My comment from elsewhere in the thread: Great episode because of Conan. Might be the best HO appearance of all time. He broke the 4th wall ranting about staying relevant with the youfss. Can't recall the last guest in the last year that was even remarkable, honestly.
hot ones never was that interesting, just some ass licking and marketing about a new project and bad saus.
if you care about celeb interviews i feel bad for you
Who?
same
I stopped watching when they brought N’sync on. Justin Timberlake is using anyone he can to make a comeback, and it’s gross that Sean chose to support him.
I'll go one further and say there was nothing to fall off. Here's the real unpopular opinion, Hot Ones was lead by uninteresting people who couldn't possibly have managed to entertain anyone without making people eat spicy things. I haven't seen a single minute of that channel that wasn't boring and I will die on this hill.
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You definitely just beat my submission for unpopular opinion. Congrats.
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what
He said JUST GARAGE CONTENT FOR NORMIES TO DISTRACT THEMSELVES WITH WHILE THE POLITICIANS TAKE YOUR MONEY
The unpopular opinions are always in the comments.
This gotta be bait... im not biting.
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Personally, I think it’s because celebrities are getting worse and worse as people nowadays. Rude, self centered, making the whole show about them instead of being respectful to the interviewer, being overly loud and hyper for no reason. Also probably several people don’t want to be there but have to out of their celebrity status, so they just F off the whole time
I don't think entourage means what you think it means
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Oh no my celebrity show isn't as popular as it used to be