By Andrew Sanford | Celebrity | April 30, 2024 |
By Andrew Sanford | Celebrity | April 30, 2024 |
Conan O’Brien’s appearance on Hot Ones was one for the ages. The comedian rubbed powerful hot sauce on his face, chest, and hands. He screamed madly into the camera, pretending that the hotness of the sauce was not affecting him. There was a moment when his eyes went bloodshot, as sauce, milk, and spit dribbled down his chin. Even after that, he still decided to chug some of the sauce directly from the bottle.
All of this was to promote his new show Conan O’Brien Must Go (which is a lot of fun). He put his body through hell to, in his words, appeal to people fifty years younger than him. It was a bold move. I honestly wonder if it will pay off. We’ll know if his new show does not get a second season. Still, he did joke about putting the damage done to his body to good use.
On a recent Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend, the hot host joked about issues he had after digesting disturbingly hot wings and sauces. “I found a construction site where they were doing spot welding, and I went there. And I said, ‘Gentlemen, if you want, I can weld these girders for you in, I’m guessing, about 15 minutes. You’ll need to avert your eyes because I’ll be dropping my pants,’” Conan joked to his co-hosts Sona Movsesian and Matt Gourley. “So there’s a building in the Mid-Wilshire district that’s going up, and I think I did about 65 rivets in the building. People were driving by saying, ‘Conan O’Brien’s pants are around his ankles, and I think fire is shooting out of his ass, and he’s welding a building.’”
Good luck getting that image out of your head! Maybe you don’t want to. I won’t judge. A fiery ass was not the only ailment O’Brien faced. It was accompanied by a sore mouth and “incredibly runny” eyes. There was also damage to his skin. “You wash your hands right afterward, but some of the sauce got underneath my wedding ring,” Conan noted. “I noticed that my wedding ring was burning … I took it off and I was like, ‘Oh right, there’s acid underneath it.’”
Anyone watching the Hot Ones episode would probably assume that Conan was scathed. The show went viral, and Conan went as far as to assume how his friends took the blow-up. “I had a bunch of friends who saw my name all over Twitter and the first assumption is, ‘He’s dead,’” he told his co-hosts. “I did have people say, ‘Oh my God, I thought, ‘Finally!’”