Few series have done more for our apparent collective need to see stars we like in sincere physical discomfort than First We Feast’s “Hot Ones,” the interview show that challenges various celebrities to answer fairly standard questions about their careers while eating increasingly spicy wings. It’s a real “Hey, famous folks are people too, in so far as they react badly to being poisoned” kind of series, and this week’s new installment, with Child’s Play star/consistent delight Aubrey Plaza is a sterling example of the form.
Plaza being Plaza—this is a performer who once brought her own supplies to Vanity Fair’s equally gimmicky-but-hypnotic ASMR interview series—she comes off as entirely game and funny, even as tears are rolling down her face. (At one point, she wryly notes that she acceded to requests do the show because “I just don’t know if Child’s Play will be my last movie.”) As the heat rises, though, she’s forced to pursue some unconventional methods of relief, which is how a million “Aubrey Plaza sucks milk up her nostrils” GIFs were presumably born. (Not coincidentally, this is around the time she tells host Sean Evans, and then the watching audience, “Fuck you. Fuck you all. This sucks.”)
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Stop trying to awaken things in me, Internet.
Really love this show. Aside from the gimmick, the questions they come up with are some of the best of any interview show I’ve seen. Do yourselves a favor if you haven’t watched it, and do a deep dive.
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YES PUT IT IN ALL OF THE HOLES
I thought Sean was a classy guy for not touching that obvious layup.
I have a very specific fetish for women being effortlessly charismatic around guys with awful, stilted voices. So I’m in heaven.
Aubrey Plaza in a nutshell.
That was exhausting to watch, even for one of her interviews.
Screw that dude, forcing the delectable Aubrey to snort milk, how dairy.
Cheese a woman, dude, not an object.
The best is just watch the first few minutes and then skip ahead like ten minutes. She’s snorting milk because her face is on fire.She’s so awesome!
This was my long time dream guest for Hot Ones. It’s all down hill from here Sean……..unless you can get…NORM! (Mcdonald that is)
The UK gives celebrities alcohol on Graham Norton for funnier moments. Here we torture them with food or make them do party tricks. This was pretty funny and cute though.
This series works on the same concept. Basically you make it very difficult for the interviewee to hide. Alcohol loosens inhibitions and hot food you can’t think of anything but the pain.
Around 18:40 she deadpans, “Am I having a stroke?” And you can see the host suppress his anxiety as realizes that she’s actually had a stroke before. She’s the best.
Love her so much
That’s nothing compared to what she did in Life After Beth. (She walked around with a stove strapped to her, is what she did. Sheesh.)
This is definitely someone’s fetish.
Aubreyphilia is a very real thing.
Long discussion about Delaware! Love it!
In these troubled times, Aubrey is what the world needs. I don’t know why I think that. Maybe it’s the 8.3% double IPA I’m drinking which incidentally wouldn’t do a thing to relieve her pain, but the 7.5% Mystic Bumbleberry Frappe IPA with lactose might. (Are you listening, Kate?)
one of the people I am legitimately glad exists
These interviews are always great up to the point where they get to the really hot wings and the guest becomes incoherent, then they’re just all the same and very boring.
Yes what a boring 2 or 3 minutes that is, Jesus take your adderall you adhd victim.
#missingthepoint
We’re all just here to see them reach Da Bomb.
Damn. Aubrey is a real trooper! I would have quit half way through that.
Looks like I just found a new time-sink.
Jesus, these comments reek of Dorito bags and dirty underwear. One of you run upstairs and ask your mom for some Glade. And some gasoline. And a match.
It’s especially fun to watch Aubrey’s episode in sequence, because the last female guest they had was Halle Berre, who handled the wings like a fucking boss. Ate all of them, completely cleaning the bones, without drinking a thing, and never showed the slightest signs of distress. Maybe the most impressive round the show has seen.To go from that, to Plaza’s face melting off but her still be game to finish, was a fun little contrast.
I will not click on this fap bait.Oh hell yes I did.
The thing that makes her so awesome is she apparently has almost no shame, and is seemingly always up for any damn thing that crosses her mind. A perpetual mindset of, “sure, fuck it, why not?”