Then as it gets harder, you’re answering questions that make you feel some regret and shame and sadness,” he says. “In the beginning, you’re saying things you’re proud of. For Vince Laliberte, who spends his days doing digital marketing and now lives in Rhode Island, the addition of questions is crucial to the experience, and they offer another opportunity to create discomfort with his friends. Schonberger says he’s heard of Hot Ones team dinners, bachelor parties, and - alarmingly - weddings.
Many people write their own questions and some fans just get together to watch their favorite episodes, while others mostly use it as an excuse to drink. There are how-to threads on Reddit, and anyone can buy official hot-sauce packs along with question cards.
There is no right way to throw a Hot Ones party. Studies show that teenage boys love Hot Ones challenges. “I don’t know what that says about the future of our society.” “They’re doing fewer drugs, having less sex - but they’re throwing Hot Ones parties,” Schonberger agrees. I suggested this may explain some recent downward trends in teenage behavior. More than one person who spoke with me acknowledged there’s a Jackass element to these parties, and a lot of people sending the photos and videos are teenage boys. The messages also motivated the team to produce at-home kits that people can purchase: “If we can give them the tools to be idiots, that’s a proud moment for us,” Schonberger says. “Not a week goes by that I don’t get five to ten emails from people saying, ‘I had a Hot Ones party,’” says Chris Schonberger, the show’s creator.
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The series -currently in its 21st season - has also become a frequent source of memes, but one important, if previously undocumented, impact is that Hot Ones has also been inspiring people to get together and inflict sometimes intense, often hilarious pain on themselves. ( Halle Berry is one of the few guests to have emerged more or less unscathed from the experience.) The talk show - hosted by Sean Evans, who asks one celebrity guest a series of increasingly personal questions as the two eat increasingly hot wings - now attracts A-list talent like Jennifer Lawrence (sobbing by the end), Paul Rudd (didn’t seem too bothered), and Viola Davis (she didn’t love it!). Launched in 2015, Hot Ones is the show that threw Idris Elba into a coughing fit, made comedian Bobby Lee shit himself, forced several guests to throw up off-camera, and caused Julia Louis-Dreyfus to joke (?) that she was going to fire her publicist. “Much worse than almost anything you do in a given year in terms of feeling awful.” But then, that’s the fun part. “I’d say the depths of the pain are totally extreme,” he says. The chief marketing officer at Ghost Autonomy had been hosting a Hot Ones party, and since the spicy steam incident, he’s thrown ten more, happily subjecting himself and his friends to an array of increasingly spicy sauces. “Everybody starts coughing and running out of the room - we all wanted to throw up.” For many people, accidentally creating a cloud of pepper spray would be enough to get them to swear off hot sauce forever. “This insanely spicy steam is all hot peppers,” he recalls. He’d stacked a dozen dirty bowls into his sink, all covered with some of the country’s most extreme hot sauce.
Photo-Illustration: Grub Street Photos: (clockwise from left) Kyle Garcia, Jay Gierak, TrueMan McGee, Nate TulioĪ few years ago, Jay Gierak accidentally pepper-sprayed himself.
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