When comic Conan O’Brien’s Scorching Ones episode started to select up steam throughout the web, a few of his buddies received the improper thought.
“I had a bunch of buddies who noticed my identify throughout Twitter and the primary assumption is, ‘He’s lifeless,’” O’Brien mentioned on his Conan O’Brien Wants a Buddy podcast. “I did have folks say, ‘Oh my God, I assumed, ‘Lastly!’”
O’Brien’s look on the YouTube sizzling wings interview present, hosted by Sean Evans, made waves upon its launch earlier this month, with followers in awe on the comic’s dedication to an unhinged efficiency which featured O’Brien chugging sizzling sauce and rubbing it on his face and chest. Because of this, the comic mentioned, he was left with “extremely runny” eyes and a mouth that “actually damage.” He additionally skilled “burning” throughout his pores and skin, particularly the place the substance was caught beneath his wedding ceremony ring.
“You wash your arms proper afterward, however a few of the sauce received beneath my wedding ceremony ring,” he mentioned. “I took it off and I used to be like, ‘Oh proper, there’s acid beneath it.’”
O’Brien mentioned he doesn’t usually eat spicy meals — not even tabasco or tapatío — however that there’s not a lot he gained’t do in pursuit of a joke.
“If I feel one thing shall be humorous, I’ll do it and cope with it later,” he mentioned, earlier than then detailing precisely what it was like coping with the results of the spice consumption later.
“I discovered a development website the place they have been doing spot welding, and I went there. And I mentioned, ‘Gentleman, if you would like, I can weld these girders for you in, I’m guessing, about quarter-hour. You’ll must avert your eyes as a result of I’ll be dropping my pants,’” he joked. “So there’s a constructing within the Mid-Wilshire district that’s going up, and I feel I did about 65 rivets within the constructing. Folks have been driving by saying, ‘Conan O’Brien’s pants are round his ankles, and I feel hearth is capturing out of his ass, and he’s welding a constructing.’”
Regardless of the acute efficiency, O’Brien mentioned he didn’t go into the day with a lot of a plan.
“I used to be conscious of the present, clearly it’s very profitable present,” he mentioned. “I went in considering, no matter occurs, I simply must eat all of the wings, and simply go for it and make a idiot of myself. I form of had that plan in thoughts, however didn’t know a lot past that.”