Seth Meyers Unravels While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones

look careful around your eyes oh right oh yeah I definitely got a little in my eyes mom I oh my god hey what's going on everybody for first we feast I'm Sean Evans and you're watching hot ones it's the show attack questions and even hotter wings and today we're joined by Seth Meyers you know him as one of the longest tenured cast members in Saturday Night Live history of course his show Late Night with Seth Meyers weeknights on NBC is also the co-creator of IFC's documentary now which is set to return for season three On February 20th Seth Meyers welcome to the show thank you for having me so I know that you've had the hot chicken at Bolton's and gnash I have yes thank you hold up I held up pretty well but that was probably the most uncomfortable I've ever been when I've enjoyed the meal so I remember my wife and I were then driving and had to both sort of have our heads out the window like dogs that was my memory foam why are you ready for round two yes let's do it [Music] alright so the first ones the classic that's right here ok great alright here we go delicious and manageable mm-hmm holy so you and I were actually born at the exact same Hospital in Evanston Illinois and I know that you moved away at a young age but return to go to college at Northwestern Mustard's Last Stand hotdogs overrated or underrated um properly rated I think I think people who say you have to go there or maybe over selling it but I think it's a wonderful thing after a football game or before a football game it's pretty good hotdogs did you ever go to Hackney's during your time at Evanston and get one of those fried onion bricks I didn't big miss out it sounds wonderful but I don't yeah my memory yeah you're studying improv in Chicago at a time when people like Steve Carell and Tina Fey and Stephen Colbert at the second city theater so I'm curious on your perspective as someone who went from The Improv Olympic in Wrigleyville to 30 rock and then to late-night how do you quantify the Chicago comedy scenes impact and influence on the entertainment industry at large well I think the world's luckier now that there's improv communities in LA and New York and there's also because of how much easier it is to shoot things and put them online there are a lot of different roads to success but Chicago used to be sort of the main road and I think some of the best people in the world would come there to get their start and when I went to my new student week my parents brought me out and we went to Second City and I saw a show with Carell and Colbert and just realized how much I wanted to be doing what they were doing I saw Tina Fey do her first show at Second City just randomly on the night I was there I saw people like Amy Poehler and Rachel Dratch and it was just I didn't realize until years later not that I was seeing the best people of Chicago but they were also the best people in the world they just happened to meet at Chicago so it was really I felt incredibly lucky to be there that [Music] unless there's a secret kick I'm well in hand enjoy it while you can so as we touched on in your intro one of the longest-tenured Saturday Night Live cast members and ever the well of queries runs deep so we'll hit with some of our most pressing SNL questions on this wing go for it Lorne Michaels the mythology around him is so vast do you remember your first conversation with them I do I was living in LA at a time I'd auditioned on my way off the stage he stood up and shook my head and said good job and years later I realized that was not common so but I didn't know at the time that was a big deal I flew back to LA a full week later they flew me back out to New York just to meet with Lauren and I sat in his office I didn't realize at the time that meant that I had the job Lauren is very bad at giving specific messages like welcome to the show and one thing I remember him saying was we're gonna see how you look in wigs we want to do a wig test before we hire you and then I worked in for 12 and a half years and I realized that's not a thing I don't know why he said it was a thing and I just went back to LA worried about how I was gonna look in wigs but I failed a wig test I don't know why he said it to this day he also said do you think you can live in New York which I rely I just thought to myself who blows it at this part variety interview whoo-hoo an SNL audition says oh is it in New York does it have to do my parts have to be in New York too I was a you know a full three or four years that he stopped being sort of this comedy icon that started being somebody I worked with and then you know this celebrity guess my guess is that most of them come in they're excited they're bright-eyed they're down for whatever yeah I know that there's a Kanye West moment every now and again yeah when you think about the times that somebody came in and just messed up the vibe for everyone all week is there a story that stands out I mean messed up a lot I you know I'm I'm always loath to like call somebody out by name you don't name names but I but yes that people's definitely screwed up the vibe I was that Kanye cuz I can say this as a huge fan of Kanye the way Kanye would screw up the vibe was he would made and I think he changed the way musical performances happened at the show he made them bigger than they were he would bring in sets different lighting you know he'd bring in ballerinas 50 ballerinas and he's a bit of a perfectionist so you know what was always thought at for two hours or her some music with Kanye would you know be three hours four hours five hours now the downside is it pushed everybody else's day later the upside was there was never a time where he gave his music performance and you didn't think that he'd made the most of it do you have a live on air screw up or break that you're most embarrassed by in your first year they try really hard if there's a week when none of your sketches get picked they try to at least have you have one thing to do so that you can go through the process of getting hair and makeup on and getting into wardrobe at least once and not just sit in your room feeling bad for yourself and a lot of times that means you have one question as a reporter in a press conference and that's what I had and during the sketch I just remember in my head thinking I can't believe him on SNL and then I heard someone else say my line and I realized that I had just drifted off and completely missed my cue and when I went back and watched it it really just cuts to me like this it's exactly what your face would be if you were drew daydreaming about how cool your job was where's patty Oh from Denver Colorado gotcha I feel like a storms coming I think I'm you know my nose isn't running yet but I can feel it start to yeah and so you know I still have a great deal of concern so know that your lifelong sports fan and I was amused to read that as a child you'd use your allowance money to subscribe to the Post Gazette so you could keep up with your beloved Steelers it's good growing up in New Hampshire mm-hmm do you think that eSports are a real sport I do I will admit it took me I didn't immediately come to that conclusion but I think everything about it is I mean to play a sport that is about reaction time and I think strategy which a lot of sports are and then not risk physical injury seems like a pretty good deal but it seems like a short career well things like younger kids have faster reaction times I think faster than any sport that thing goes I think in like at 22 you're like basically brethren should they keep playing Sweet Caroline during the eighth inning of Red Sox games or stop playing Sweet Caroline during the eighth inning of Red Sox games it's a pretty decent tradition and a good sing-along I think the ultimate bigger problem the Red Sox and their fans are up against is how they've went from the most charming underdogs in the world to now you know basically the Yankees in different uniform and then I know that you're partial to the athletes that have come on Saturday Night Live yeah so what I want to do is just hit you with a few big names that were on the show when you were on it I just want to know what you remember about working with them okay gotcha LeBron James LeBron James it's still stunning to me that when LeBron James was on the show I believe he was 22 years old and he was so intellectually mature such a gentleman really fun to hang out with and a delay post Peyton Manning Peyton Manning I remember we did that United Way sketch where he was mean to kids and I went over to him between takes and said hey can you do you think you can hit that kid in the back of the head with a nerf football and I realized it was the most insulting thing to say in NFL quarterback he just looked at me and said yeah I can hit the kid [Music] all right it's getting hotter it isn't hard for you you know at this point I feel like I'm so battle tested that battle hardened me that I know what to expect you know plus I feel like as a host don't you have to just put up a better front for your guests like I need to be confident and stoic because otherwise you might panic that's true I I try very hard not to say during any interviews this isn't going well just I know I know this is your first time on the show but they usually go better so sketch comedy is sort of a misunderstood discipline I think to a lot of people as someone who understands it at a technical level do you think that there's a difference or a disconnect and what sketch writers think is funny and what audiences think is funny and Eminem verse for example might be so focused on the mechanics of rapping that to the average ear doesn't even sound good I see I don't know if we think about it in terms of mechanics I do think music is different than comedy this one's really hot and I'm worried I also care for rod your eyes yeah well I didn't I'm wearing my show makeup yeah and now I'm gonna melt off but like I do want people to know like my face starts melting I don't want me to panic is there a sketch that you wrote mmm-hmm that you think is funny that you thought was funny that you still think is funny but that bombed on air all right this is gonna seem thematic this is the last sketch I wrote that in the end I think was accurately treated as bad by the audience so I'm not standing out for it but Melissa McCarthy hosted my last episode and she had ordered 200 chicken wings and she was pretending like there was a party but it became very clear that she was had ordered them for herself and my last sketch played to total silence and and Lauren looked at me and I remember him saying what am I going to do without you look at you splitting bones clean wings out here um there's a true story about me that's disgusting I'm gonna tell you true story okay mm-hmm you should work at an improv theatre in Amsterdam and we had the chicken wings were something you could order and one night we were standing by the pinball machine playing pinball and my brother saw me my brother also we theater basically sucking the chicken wing and he was said are those yours and I said no and he said you just sucking someone else's chicken wings and I said I am and then someone else said I also think they're from yesterday all right Seth we have a recurring segment on our show called explain that Graham where we do a deep dive on I guess Instagram pull interesting pictures that need more context okay great so I'll bust out the laptop I'll show you the picture and you tell me the bigger story does that sound good sounds great all right laptop please thank you sir all right first things first how in the world did you end up at Yeezy season two with Anna Wintour and Kim I was told that I was personally invited by Kanye so that's the only reason I went Wow and then I saw him afterwards and it wasn't wood not that I expected it but it wasn't as though he didn't say thanks for coming I'm glad you got my invite but it was I knew I was gonna sit next day in the winter so I that's the only time I think I've worn sunglasses inside I didn't see a lot of stuff that I thought would look natural on me I didn't see it I wasn't like oh that's an ensemble that I could pull off well I think you should at least try some on yeah I could try some on all right have you picked up any cooking tips from your segments with Action Bronson he's a friend of the program Action Bronson is the most cursing we've ever had I think if you based on the beeps you might not at the end of it hear enough words to know how to prepare it octopus I don't you know I gotta be honest I think most of our late-night cooking segments people aren't writing down how to prepare the food yeah and they certainly weren't for action but he's a lot of fun to be around adobo loco lo hey kiddo no guy a very a very frightening word when you're eating you don't what - si loco and a menu they usually so like you I grew up watching Letterman and that era of late-night wasn't as politically driven as it seems like this new era is you know shows like yours Colbert political commentary it's right at the core of the show and I'm curious to what extent do you think that shift is driven by political satire becoming more popular genre and to what extent is it driven by audiences just being more interested being more political I think couple things I do think Jon Stewart sort of flipped the game with The Daily Show and I think showed everybody there was a different way of doing things and then you know I do think that if Dave still had a show I bet it would be more political if it was on right now than it was when he started just based on where we are but also I you know there is a certainly an appetite from the audience I was surprised when we first started the show in 2014 the conventional wisdom was oh the shorter you can make bits the better the better chance they are to go viral and it turns out like people actually have patience for things sort of one of our signature bits it's called a closer look at sometimes 12 to 14 minutes and it's still the part of the show that people watch the most online do you think that it's possible for political humor to be nonpartisan uh no I think it's I think it would be I think point of view is really important and I think that's what people are drawn to in all kinds of comedy whether it's articles or whether it's interviews like we try to bring the receipts when we're doing that so that people know okay this person obviously have a different political view than this person beliefs are not just coming up with things out of thin air and this is where it just the label skiff because now this our first hot sauces are funny that way yeah it was so letting in the beginning it was just a happy turtle some gold here that's all good roosters [Music] huh your country [Music] you know we're very often mm-hmm funk all over the ton so I understand that you're a sandwich obsessive so much so in fact that even if you're eating things that aren't a sandwich like a baked potato in a steak you'll actually make it yeah into its sandwich form did you learn anything about the dark arts of sandwich making as a delivery driver for D'Angelo or I might have my tip my cap to your research department and some real deep cut [ __ ] right there careful around your eyes oh right oh yeah I definitely got a little in my eyes um I oh my god I was more of a D'Angelo delivery driver I didn't learn much about sandwiches I don't have this three ago Jesus mm-hmm milk you drink milk cow would you use your high school car that had the vanity plates listeth for that delivery job no levar was a real NOLA car the vanity plate was listeth you know we can move on do you ever go to like there was an unfair jump from 6:00 to 7:00 what do you think's a better sandwich city of Chicago or New York um I don't know that's a good question I would say they both have really good sandwiches I'm now gonna pretend this is me as an actor I'm now gonna pretend I'm not in pain all right well let's see how that goes this next one is the bomb Beyond and sanded go right to another one while I'm pretending a minute okay the bomb [Music] it's not the antidote okay I'm gonna be cool now impressive so I feel like now is as good a time as I need to get extremely meta about the celebrity interview you talk to celebrities every night on a big network talk show of course I have this circus act here on YouTube yeah do you ever think do you ever think about the absurdity of it all we're a conduit to a total strangers story you know and you have to build rapport with somebody that you're meeting for the very first time while nine dudes in a room in a million more watching at home just look at us yeah I'm well the thing is what's interesting in the difference between this in my show that's not that genuine things don't happen on my show but it's obviously a performance of a conversation aside okay even though I'm not performing right now is what I'm trying to get at now we're still whoo and there's a lot more plate spinning because it's like this simulated conversation in exactly six and a half minutes and then this break and then this thing you have to change the way that you talk to people mm-hmm yeah like there's no other conversation in my life where someone behind me is holding up numbers for how much time until the next commercial break I'd like that you know sometimes you're at dinner parties and nothing would make me happier than being able to go oh we gotta go to commercial and then you know that's such a day-in and day-out grind doing a nightly talk show yeah and that you'd stack on top of it doing this other show documentary now is that in some ways like building a ship in a bottle for you is it a hobby doing something like that yeah it's like making something beautiful that you have the time to make I think also like when you do a late-night talk show you're very aware that like their value like decreases by half every day like yesterday's show has already left worth less because the news has changed whereas documentary now and Pope fold it they'll be as good in ten years oh yeah oh my god yeah okay I'm just genuinely unhappy [Music] okay go ahead so know that your love of comics runs deep in addition to creating your series the awesome Lulu I know that you made a special issue spider-man along with Bill Hader or do it yeah if your collection caught on fire and you could only save one comic which one did you say my first I have great Morrison one of my favorite writers signed he was on the show when he signed my first issue of Animal Man which was a really important comic for me I'm sure I've had to save one I would save that one what do you think is the funniest comic book of all time the funniest comic book of all time I remember when I was young there was a comic called ambush bug and I thought that was really funny and then the Justice League International had was both a good superhero book that was also funny which superhero do you think would make the best late-night guest what superhero do I think would make what superhero make the good I mean I guess a Bruce Banner you tried it obviously and then you know comics are so mainstream now they're the biggest movies every year and then even more niche comics like preacher yeah it's on its fourth season TV show which comic has fallen through the cracks like what would you like to see a hollywood adaptation of in 2019 I'm really excited New Gods is gonna be I mean I can't believe like so they've been so successful in something like mr. miracle who might be in a movie like that's really cool for me Blue Beetle ever I'm a big Blue Beetle fan I would like to see that find his way to the silver screen which comic book character do you think would do best against the wings of death firestorm he's already his hair he's already has like a flame and his nuclear bomb logo already looks like one of these [ __ ] bottles why just get on with it I feel like the shrinking to make it worse so this is the last dab we call it the last dab because it's tradition around here to put a little extra on the last wing yeah I've seen it you don't have to if you don't want to Seth well what is the sauce on the last wing it's already there so I don't have really so okay so this this is just for show this is this for me - its ritualistic yeah okay there you go all right what a run it's been has it been a good road but very far how am i held up is like AB middle of the road you know here's I think Seth you're obviously in pain yeah you're suffering a little bit yeah it's the most painful meal in my life but you have gone forward you are you know you have been cleaning wings you know sometimes people when they're struggling they'll start to nibble a little bit or maybe they'll tap out entirely but not you Seth and you've worked a full day yeah that's right across the street cheers to you Cheers [Music] their Bible okay Seth Meyers here we are at the end of the line and just one more ball to balance on your nose before we get you out of here one of our favorite Seth Meyers bits is up is a trailer that you made for Boston accent yeah where you played a laundry list of characters all with Boston accent yeah Sophie Oh humor me yeah what would the mayor of Boston say about hippie-dippie green hippy dippy green this is a good hot sauce not too rough Rania you're gonna enjoy it you know put a little bit on your crab you know you want to put a little kick on your lobster oh I would say hippie-dippie how would the townie who says bro in every sentence review the wings that were served today bro I got no problem with the wings I got a problem I feel like these people that are making these hot sauces are out to get you I feel like it's a show for them to watch your meltdown try the YouTube and then what would the British actor who's trying but doesn't quite have it say about the bomb Jabbar me is too hot it's wickedly high well you heard it here first and look at you Seth Meyers Ted chicken wings up you know what I left a little here now you mmm and finishing it off to the bone hot ones legend and I salute you this camera this camera or this camera from the break we'll know what you have going on in your life I really enjoyed this what I have going on I like I'm um I'm worried that if I kiss my children they're gonna burst into flames watch documentary now less on February 20 and then IFC he was really good and then late nights on every night or at least that's the plan hold up when does it stop how long oh no no it's like when does this stop its it's only gonna get better from here is the worst are gonna feel hi everybody camera guy bill here just wanted to thank you for our 5 million subscribers on YouTube because of you I still have a job and my mom is super proud of me it's pretty good being bill these days and that's thanks to you spice Lords keep on subscribing

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Id: voFRslp8d60

Length: 25min 54sec (1554 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 07 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/hweird]

Sean is just shaking the last dab to elicit a reaction from the guest now

[u/Raidoton]

He really doesn't leave a lot of meat on the bones.

[u/8gxe]

The wings look bigger. Did Gordon actually give them better wings?

[u/Dread_Pirate_Robertz]

It’s a meme at this point, but it is seriously impressive that they always manage to have the guest compliment their research team. Doubly so in this instance because Seth interviews people for a living. Hot Ones definitely benefits from the novelty of the format, but I think the show will be sustainable in the long term because Sean and the team do such a good job actually interviewing the guest in an unexpected way. They always make it interesting for people unfamiliar with whoever is on that episode. It makes the audience really trust that the show will be interesting all the way through with virtually any guest.

[u/Razor2115]

I fuckin love da bomb. You can see whatever left of their soul dying inside after the bite.

[u/MythzFreeze]

I really liked this one, he seemed very genuine imo. Gave the impression he just wanted to go on the show because he thought it'd be fun.

[u/Seaborgium]

Justice League International, Animal Man, Blue Beetle and Mister Miracle? I like Seth's taste in comics

[u/TobyTheRobot]

The Last Dab doesn't really seem that hot -- nobody really reacts to it all that strongly. It's always Da Bomb that fucks everyone up.

[u/MannschaftPilz]

Anyone have the clip of him missing his cue as a reporter on SNL?