Conan O’Brien is going viral for all the right reasons – hot wings and spewed milk | Rebecca Shaw
While other comedians spend more time complaining than cracking jokes, the former Late Nite show host remains gloriously unhinged and hilarious
With every advance in human technology comes an advance in weird new emotional situations. For example, the Germans should invent a word for the specific drop in the stomach that occurs when you open X to see a celebrity you like trending globally. No one 20 years ago could ever have imagined this specific feeling. Depending on the person, my brain leaps to conclusions. If it’s an older person, I worry they’ve carked it. If it’s Sydney Sweeney, I assume her breasts are up to something again (existing). And if it’s a comedian I’ve loved since childhood, I assume they’ve been cancelled for doing something shitty (due to patterns).
A few weeks ago, I got a Tower of Terror-size gut drop when I saw Conan O’Brien, one of my biggest comedy heroes, trending. Luckily I didn’t need to worry. He had gone viral for his appearance on the YouTube show Hot Ones, where a celebrity is interviewed while eating progressively hotter wings. Conan had given a completely unhinged and hilarious performance, including rubbing hot sauce on his nipples. In a sentence I’d never thought I’d say, thank God it was just more breasts discourse.
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