Kevin James Forgets Who He Is While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones

oh my gosh sean sean oh man i don't know i don't even know who i am right now hey what's going on everybody for first week feast i'm sean evans and you're watching hot ones it's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings and today we're joined by kevin james he's an actor his career in comedy touches everything from stand up to massively successful tv shows and films check out the kevin james youtube channel as we quickly approach 1 million subscribers and his latest project is the crew a comedy series set to release on netflix february 15th kevin james welcome to the show thanks for having me sean i appreciate it i am uh i'm ready i'm i'm a little nervous i'm not i'm not going to lie because if anybody was built to succeed on this show you would think i i would i would be it you know and and i am just a certain point and then i'm not i'm worried about the wheels coming off but we're going to get through it together [Music] i'm going to glove up do you mind if i do a uh on one side just because i've gotten the stuff in the eye no i think that's very smart prescient okay all right here we go this is now what this one yup the classic classic that looks sweet it looks innocent red [Music] okay yeah [Music] that's a nice taste yeah that's good so i want to start by talking about your series the crew which is set in a nascar garage and focused on the characters who work the pit and i've seen you grand marshaling race events since as far back as 2007. has any of that boots on the track experience help to inform this new role that you have as a nascar crew chief it did it's insane if you've never been to one of these events i had no idea what goes on there it's it's crazy i mean the whole tailgate party situation is on the inside it's on the inside the infield of the track they got the the racing going on the pit crew the teams are going the military's there the crowds are going nuts it's an insane event and i become a fan and i'm trying to learn more and more about it ever since [Music] all right here we go do i keep the lips out of it do you try to do that is there something to that or no well i've seen everybody try everything but it's it's like that mike tyson quote about everyone having a plan until you get punched in the mouth i would say try to keep the lips off as long as you can but eventually it's just a free-for-all yeah yeah i like this one it's got a nice pepperoncini taste so i want to compliment you on your youtube channel which has been on fire during quarantine with a mix of short films and sketches that have all the production quality of a major motion picture and you know often times when celebrities go onto youtube they do youtube things but you with every upload you've stayed committed to this storytelling looking back on now what is close to a year-long foray what have you gotten out of the kevin james youtube experience you know what i gotta be honest i gotta give credit to uh this uh family of brothers there's like eight of them uh the canaans that uh they're insanely talented family of directors editors they do everything they kept saying let's just do shorts and quick little movies and i mean i fell in love with it it's an amazing experience to do it it was cathartic for me and you know you're putting something hopefully funny out in the world there and they're amazing they were it was great it's really one of the few avenues where you can do whatever you want and there's nobody telling you what to put in what to put out you got to do this it's for kids for this with that we got to add this and so i was sold i was like i enjoyed doing that so much you know i enjoy movies too you know but it's like there's so much more pressure with that this we were just out having fun that was it okay that wasn't good touched with this hand already not a smart move i got no heat yet nothing do you yeah well listen i'm like a lab experiment over here you know um really good taste really good so i think that it's safe to say that wait i spoke too soon yeah just a tinge it just it just knocked on my tongue and what did you say about me thank you bud so i think that it's safe to say that as a food lover you represent the people's palate you'd be much more comfortable with a lineup of burgers in front of you from an all-american drive-through than you would be with a 20-course tasting menu at a five-star restaurant so what i want to do is hit you with a few food headlines that have popped up in the news lately and i'm just curious how you react to them is the people's gourmand first one this is this week from eater billionaires row condo requires its residents to spend fifteen thousand dollars a year at private restaurant that's crazy i i i i am not i would not like that i would not live there i would not do that because you're trapped with that type of food like down and dirty is better for me from a diner to a mom-and-pop little crappy sandwich shop on the side of a highway if it's good it's good you know i i can eat the higher end stuff but i don't prefer it this is from nbc connecticut connecticut lawmakers propose making pizza the official state food and this seemed to incense the rest of the tri-state area yeah connecticut's you know what i think they have a few places i don't want to name names and i think they think they're in the game uh with new york and jersey it's just to me i don't know i think they should stick with you know what they got the original hamburger up there i think in connecticut i think that's what they've made be happy with that stay with that unless you prove me different long island is pretty badass for pizza this is from the new york post vegan bodega now serving meatless takes on classic new york city sandwiches the place is called the vodega and it serves options like a jackfruit cuban and a seitan philly cheese steak for around 14 bucks no no no just no no no no no that's like no in a philly cheesesteak and you're gonna do it vegan it doesn't work just stay in your lane that's fine say you can't eat meat and you don't want to go ahead but i'm letting you know i'm eating double to make up for what you're not eating i will eat this isn't a headline but i think i should bring it to your attention that there are internet lists of the greatest breakfast sandwiches in the country that do not include a single bacon egg and cheese from long island does that invalidate all rankings in your opinion it absolutely does you can't say something else when you when you degrade a a breakfast sandwich from long island a deli anything else you say is there's no there is no truth [Music] okay got on the lips already i like this one it's good a little more of a kick for sure yeah nice so in addition to playing a teacher turned fighter and here comes the boom i know that you've been a day one ufc fan sitting ringside at events way before that was a cool thing for celebrities to do can you give us one hollywood trade secret when it comes to the art of the fight scene it's clear from watching your work that you have a deep appreciation for the craft oh i love it and it was funny because i got in shape from the boom but i wasn't in the greatest shape still like i wasn't completely fit and i should have gotten better shape you know and i realized that when we were shooting because i was getting so gassed and a lot of these uh fighters that i was fighting with they don't know they've never act fought before like a couple times i go hey hey hey whoa where we're at here these guys don't have that speed once they're in the fight and they're kind of throwing energy they're not gonna throw their punch to the right they're gonna you know they're trained to hit you in the chin and i got wobbled a couple times but uh it's fun it was it was i'm glad i got to do it from that angle too it's a nice way to almost get props for fighting without fighting and then my favorite kevin james fun fact is that you're on the same high school wrestling team as wwe hall of famer mick foley could you see his wrestling potential back then when you guys were teenagers no you know i was uh i played football i was a running back on the team and i never wrestled really before but uh they needed a heavyweight and another heavyweight to go with mick uh so they brought me over and we used to have some battles i would kind of throw him around a little bit i was i think i was in better shape than him back then but he started that's where the the demented mind was developing i remember him jumping off his roof into like cardboard boxes and he was just doing these weird things and he's the nicest guy ever i mean he's incredible writes children's books and he's the sweet does more for charity he's just a great great guy but he's a little off he's definitely a little off jimmy fallon once described you as great at falling how if at all has your background in sports and mixed martial arts influenced you as a physical comedian i love being physical i love physical comedians big ones especially i mean you know jackie gleason to me is is the greatest of all time and he was a big guy who could dance and move and i love that you know so i love the physicality of not only comedy of just acting and moving and action movies and you know so it's it's always been in there and i've always you know i always try to bring it and it's get it gets harder as you get older but uh it's still there [Music] can i say something i got a little residual from the last one this is yours yeah this is you make this one but you know what kevin if you don't if you don't like it don't don't lie to me don't lie trust me trust me one thing i'm not shy that's fantastic i mean that high compliment all right kevin james we have a recurring segment on our show called explain that gram where we do a deep dive on our guest instagram pull interesting pictures that need more context so i'll show you the picture you tell us the bigger story first things first how big a deal was it for you to meet joe namath and then how do you cope do you have a hack for coping as a jets fan yeah um it's just i mean i'm so used to it now it's like you with the wing sauce it's like how do you how are you doing that you know and everybody says that how do you deal with the jet sucking it's like i've been doing it since i was you know forever joe named was awesome it was awesome i was at a jet game and uh got to meet him i had met him once earlier when i was literally i think four years old and he was at the uh smithhaven mall in a fur coat and you know it was the day heyday of broadway joe and i got to meet him then and he was very cool both times so that was a dream come true that was very cool i think that you have used your fame to get into more sort of like fantasy camp exhibitions than anybody else i can think of off the top of my head when you think back on all the celebrity softball and soccer and golf and tennis and nascar and i could go on and on and on do you have a single sort of crowning athletic achievement yes it was uh beating tiger woods at a uh at a a short mini golf tournament we had for uh way back in the day when he had a charity event he's competitive he lost to me i beat him at golf and it was amazing i like to leave out the fact that he was only allowed three clubs that was his he so he chose a driver i think a five iron uh and a i think a wedge and and he used he putted with his driver but i beat him i drained a putt i think and uh tiger he was a little off on it but he was cool i'm taking that with me charles barkley was there they all know they know who won it [Music] tears of the sun private reserve is this the private reserve i don't want the or if it's just the regular reserve i'm not going to do it only the finest top shelf for kevin james private reserve [Music] okay okay [Music] this is the first one where the heat came in with like the taste taste was getting in and it was like he was like hey what's up i'm here too it's like i'm i'm what they kind of hit at the same time a wave a real wave of heat with this one they didn't wait he didn't wait in the parking lot and say i'll bring you in later he's in there now that's good though that's a good one so i've heard you say that you try to connect with the everyday every guy and a lot of your most iconic characters reflect that salt of the earth sensibility you'll often hear politicians or marketers talk about the everyman with at least a professed reverence while cultural critics it's almost used as a disparaging term do you clock that how do you think about that duality i forget someone said it but like uh there's a reason you watch uh james bond you know uh when he does a uh a movie like because it's something you would never do and it's it's exciting and you lose a life that you don't have that's not why people watch me people watch me because i would do that exact thing that that guy would do hopefully you know like that's what you want to do get connecting with with the you know husbands and wives where they're just like we are just like you and you know your wife in the show or this or that it's tough for a career too because every time you do a movie especially if you do one that works out well half the audience wants you to do that again they're comfortable with that character so they want to see that again so they're like put something out like that again and then you do that and then you lose half your uh your audience where they're like well we already saw that you know what else you got you know so it's like and if you do something different they're not as thrilled so it's it's that constant battle of trying to please and and ultimately i just try to throw the widest net possible and catch you know as many people as i can but you can't you got to be who you are and that's why again the youtube channel for me is just just do what i think is funny and that's it have fun don't worry about it let everybody else catch up [Music] i see a woman she's got the glasses and a sword [Music] okay yeah yep hello i'm just talking talking yeah that hit now all right wow okay yeah let's play let's play you know what that's that's a good one okay all right so kevin james i wasn't aware of this but hitch is a big hit with the hot ones crew the 2005 highly quotable highly rewatchable film that to date is still the third highest grossing rom-com of all time in that iconic dance scene with will smith where you're making a pizza and tossing out a q-tip you can almost see will holding back a smile how much of that scene was improvised a lot was we were going back and forth we were just working throwing up things back and forth trying different things and he said you have anything and i go you know what i don't know what i have so i would just start thinking of items around me things in my bathroom whatever it was and that's where you know make the pizza and the q-tip and all that stuff just being stupid i had no idea we shot a bunch of stuff the will was cracking up i'm like if i'm making will laugh you know that's all i got to do right now and uh i was so happy how it came out wow you guys have really designed it well that way right you know it's just a you know that feeling when you're taking off and you just go right above the clouds you got a little and then you're just up yeah what okay you got me worried now wow wow that is that is that's so [Music] so bad by the way that tastes like frozen dog poop with hot sauce on it like that is literally there's no joy to that oh my gosh sean sean oh man i don't know i don't even know who i am right now that changed everything yeah we'll never be the same kevin we'll never be the same i know i will be sean i love you but right now i want to put your face in a bag and punch it i just want to for my money your most underrated project is making the cut the road to pebble beach which followed you and ray romano on your quest and the days leading up to the pro-am is there a shot or moment that still haunts you to this day when you think about missing the cut by only two strokes yeah on 17 i remember i remember oh my gosh i think it was 17 or no maybe 18. i think i went in the drink i forget where it was i remember i went in the drink a couple times uh so pissed off but you know what ray went on he didn't make the cut did he he missed it by one stroke he missed him he was drunk he missed it chris berman swung that putt yeah so this goes insanity so it goes up to insanity and then it says that's not good enough beyond it that's a nasty little fat bottle [ __ ] right there look at that cheers bud sure okay that doesn't feel as bad as the bomb is it coming ultimately if you take on the bomb i feel like it almost scorches the earth in your mouth yeah yes the bomb crushes everything so now there's no feeling there's no love there's no hate there's nothing we're playing with house money kevin we're playing with house money we did it so far right can i go for another one [Music] all right come here salute yeah i like that one so i want to open this wing with a little story about bill gates who credits his early success with the fact that he grew up next door to the university of washington where he had access to some of the best state-of-the-art computer labs in the world does anything about that little bill gates story resonate with you when you think about coming up in that prolific long island comedy scene in minnevini's east side comedy club that was back in the day it was absolutely a product it's where i started richie marvini was the greatest because it's a stand-up you uh when you're first starting out and even to this day you know i think the most important thing is stage time is getting up on stage trying to find who you are not your jokes will change and everything will change but just finding a persona that you know you can you know roll with richie minovini was the best because he would just give you time to just say just go and just do it and you would suck he'd say but suck stay up there and you you know you build up a presence you know and you learn to be comfortable in the uncomfortable which is uh you know a really good tool to have it stand up is my mouth filling up with water so it's like having guys like you know eddie murphy and all these amazing stand-ups come in and out of there it was always the best place to grow up for me for up you know that is a legendary stage that helped launch the careers of people like eddie murphy or jim carrey or uh ray romano when you first started who was like kevin james's comedian's comedian i mean i loved robert klein robert klein was always the one you know he just he was the one i saw his hbo special that just floored me and i loved his style of comedy i mean richard lewis was funny too he was great you know you take on these guys and you love them and you try to mimic your act then you find your own voice but through them those are the ones that really inspired me to become a comedian by the way we did all this with no drink yeah no reflexive drinking until we roll credits kevin okay what do i do with this just a little extra on the last wing you don't have to if you don't want to [Music] ooh ceremonial that's a lot that went in there that's good fireworks show to close things out cheers cheers kevin thank you for getting me through this so far [Music] but going back in kevin james man of the people [Music] kevin here we are at the closing credits of our spicy wing journey together we've talked about your films your new show the plight of being a jets fan but i want to close with your abiding deep love for pizza you've compared the pie scene in long island to heaven and one of the most circulated kevin james quotes is there's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap what makes long island pizza better than all other pizza and don't say the water it's the standard of which i know pizza long island pizza it's even different than the city just got hot but it got hot but uh there's just a different there's just a feeling that i knew i grew up with that's it it's long island pizza and it's basically in every strip mall every strip mall on long island you'll get a good one and a decent one anyway but this that's that's it that's the market for me i've been to italy tried everywhere i keep coming back long island grandma's slice or sicilian you know what that's like telling you which which one of your kids do you like better you know so it's like um always good i love the grandma slice but i'm a sicilian guy but i'm also classic always oh yeah yeah i'm good and then finally which of the hot sauces that you've tried today do you think would pair best with a next day reheat slice this is the one the apollo i like it the most honestly i really do because it's got the heat i like the heat but you can blend it and you can kind of you put i would also put it in a sundae sauce high compliments for apollo we'll take that kevin james and look at you my man taking on the sauce the king of queens and the king of hot sauce now there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you kevin james this camera that camera probably just the one you're looking at let the people know what you have going on all right i'm all over the place here we are netflix the crew check it out february 15th man this was unbelievable sean i'm a huge fan of yours i thank you for interviewing me and talking me through this i felt safe the whole way like a like a baby in a mother's arms okay that was awesome thank you and no drink by the way nothing and i'm not gonna get one and i'll go in for more i'm gonna go in for more you're really good thank you that's the one standing ovation from steven and camera guy bill in the studio hot ones truth or dab the game the kit comes complete with 250 question cards and then here's how the game works you just go around the table you take turns 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Length: 25min 42sec (1542 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 11 2021