Conan O'Brien Makes Fun Of HBO Max Rebrand While Suffering Through Spicy Wings

By Andrew Sanford | Celebrity | April 12, 2024 |

By Andrew Sanford | Celebrity | April 12, 2024 |

Some people are naturally funny. Put them in any situation and they will make you laugh. There is no stopping it. Not only do these people excel at being funny, they crave it. You can tell that they are only happy when they are stealing the attention of everyone in the room, and splitting their sides with surgical precision. If they aren’t getting a laugh, they aren’t existing. Conan O’Brien is one of these people.

The former late-night host has said he needs to make people laugh. According to O’Brien, he will not only stop and talk to fans, he will start doing bits for them. He will do the same for his friends’ kids, waiters, and wife. The man is always on. That’s why he’s trekking worldwide to entertain fans in other countries. It’s also why he appeared on Hot Ones this week.

Hot Ones is an interview show on YouTube where guests eat increasingly spicy wings while being peppered with questions by host Seth Evans. I could count the number of times I’ve watched the show on one hand. It never appealed to me. That is until John Oliver announced he would be a guest. I assumed the Last Week Tonight host would not handle the wings well, and I was correct. I thought the same thing would be true for O’Brien. I was slightly wrong.

O’Brien spends most of his time on the show saying that the wings are not affecting him. He drinks several sauces directly from their bottles. At one point, he drizzles hot sauce on his hands and rubs it on his face in ecstasy. Conan even brought a doctor to check on him occasionally, only for the host to declare that he was fine. By the end, he’s screaming at the camera with bloodshot eyes that he is OK. It is a masterclass of comedy.

Conan appeared on the show to promote his new show, Conan O’Brien Must Go, where he travels to other countries to visit his fans. The show will premiere on Max, and Conan took time to take shots at the network’s name. Early on, before the spice overcame him, Conan jokingly can’t remember which name is correct. “Is it HBO Max or just Max? I can’t get used to it,” he jokes. “It’s not a better name.” By the end, when Conan is beet red and suffering, he takes one last parting shot. “I have a show, it’s on Max! They used to call it HBO, but people found that too popular. So now it’s Max because that really rolls off the tongue. And it’s a funny show.”

May Zod bless this hilarious man.