When comic Conan O’Brien’s Sizzling Ones episode started to choose up steam throughout the web, a few of his mates bought the incorrect concept.
“I had a bunch of mates who noticed my title throughout Twitter and the primary assumption is, ‘He’s useless,’” O’Brien stated on his Conan O’Brien Wants a Good friend podcast. “I did have individuals say, ‘Oh my God, I believed, ‘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. In consequence, the comic stated, 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 marriage ceremony ring.
“You wash your arms proper afterward, however among the sauce bought beneath my marriage ceremony ring,” he stated. “I took it off and I used to be like, ‘Oh proper, there’s acid beneath it.’”
O’Brien stated he doesn’t sometimes 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 believe one thing will probably be humorous, I’ll do it and cope with it later,” he stated, earlier than then detailing precisely what it was like coping with the results of the spice consumption later.
“I discovered a development web site the place they have been doing spot welding, and I went there. And I stated, ‘Gentleman, if you’d like, I can weld these girders for you in, I’m guessing, about quarter-hour. You’ll have to 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 believe 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 believe hearth is taking pictures out of his ass, and he’s welding a constructing.’”
Regardless of the intense efficiency, O’Brien stated 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 stated. “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.”