John Oliver Fears For Humanity While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones

John Oliver is the Peabody Award–winning host of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, a show that’s won more than two dozen Emmys since premiering in 2014. Catch new episodes Sunday nights on HBO at 11:00 ET, with past episodes canonized rather conveniently right here on YouTube. But how is he with spicy food? Find out as the former Daily Show correspondent discusses the problems with cable news, his love for the Muppets, and his iconic (in his own mind) free kick in Soweto.

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That is just an objectionable thing for Humanity to do right it’s not the worst thing we’ve ever done but it’s part of our worst Instincts hey what’s going on everybody for first we Feast I’m Sean Evans and you’re watching hot ones it’s the show with hot questions and even hotter wings and today we’re joined by John Oliver yeah we are he’s the PE body award-winning host of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver show that’s won more

Than two dozen Emmy since premiering 2014 catch new episodes Sunday nights on HBO at 11:00 Eastern with past episodes canonized rather conveniently right here on YouTube John Oliver welcome to the show thank you Sean um I was going to I was going to say it’s a pleasure to be

Here but let’s not start with me lying right into right right you know that’s how we build the trust just have to be honest exactly let’s build an immediate connection my instinct says this is going to go very very Badly Let Stockholm syndrome Commence I’ll be honest that was hotter than I wanted the first one to be I would not say great at this point I would say uh-oh we’re working with a different Spectrum mhm than my face is used to we’re going to put a number to it today all right okay yeah all right do you have an all-time favorite missuse

Of HBO resources for a bit on Last Week Tonight I mean I love misusing their resources there is there’s almost nothing in life that makes me happier than doing something I think they’re going to be a little bit mad at so yeah we we bought Russell Crow’s jock strap I

Was going to give people context I don’t know if you really need any uh it was from the movie Cinderella Man um and so we bought it and we sent it to uh one of the last remaining Blockbusters in Alaska I think that then shut down I

Believe it was then sent to the last the actual last Blockbuster which I think is in Oregon I think that’s where Russell Crow Cinderella Man jockstrap is right now the Smoky Jay I don’t like the name at all H not horrible right I think you were uh kind of Jarred a little bit by the first one you know but that would be like you know you’re a football fan right that’s like you got out on the pitch you took a bump and now you’re settled into the

Game you know yes which football are we talking about there I’m talking about round football you know because I’m a host I’m hospitable you know what I’m saying John yes oh Pitch Pitch with the giveaway pitch I didn’t even that really was hospitable you said Pitch and I

Didn’t internalize that you were being gracious yes I love I love football very much and that you’re right that felt like this one gave me a nudge mhm this one I don’t feel nudges anymore cuz you’re in the game baby cuz I’m in the game I’m all about the game so when we

Had Lis th on the show last year he said that his britishness works as like a superpower for getting American subjects to just reflexively trust him does that align at all with your own experience it does I mean he’s a brilliant interviewer right in fact I thought I was going to

Meet him it was when I was working at The Daily Show it was a producer there had worked with him and they they’d set up something for my birthday and so he just needed to get me upstairs and he said Lou th is here do you want to meet

Him and I was so excited and then I ran in and it was just a surprise birthday party for me and I had to really reverse engine Oh I thought I was meeting Louis THU not this an emotional sort of short cir this isn’t what I wanted you’re not

Him you’re celebrating my birth that’s not what I was Promised the Stella fuzz funky hot sauce yeah the names are getting fun yeah aren’t they though actually like that this is going to be the moment I remember somewhere over here has the good times from breaking your nose in a Civil War reenactment to hiding from security during the 2008 Republican National

Convention what stands out in your memory as being the most heroing experience you had as a Daily Show field reporter they were all pretty harrowing I think um I mean that was one of my first experien in America was breaking my nose it probably made me realize that

I was in the right place to work it was a dream come true to come and work for John Stewart that was my first interaction with the US Healthcare System no notes by the way Sean works great um to get back to the office and hear them playing that clip again and

Again and laughing so hard it kind of made me think oh you’re more concerned about the joke than me I think I think this is where I belong you found a home yeah Los centes fair day again I feel like I’m being hit in the face with a

Setup jab right right it’s the lead left that is hitting me but that’s not the fist I’m worried about you know what just roll with it because we’re moving forward you know what I mean every step is a sauce that’s out of the way you

Know what I’m saying so you just take it if you got kind of a freebie just take it don’t apologize for it enjoy it these are the good times is a sauce out of the way if that isn’t a piece of merch if you don’t have that on a t-shirt Chris

Run it and you’re leaving money on the table for the uninitiated what’s magical about the Edinburgh festival and how do you think it shaped you as a standup I mean the magical thing about it and you know that word is overused but it to me there is a really magic to

It is that it’s not curated like so many other festivals um are you’re invited to come so that you maintain a certain standard the beauty of Edinburgh is that kind of quality control doesn’t exist so it’s just absolute freefor all of artistic Mayhem and that can produce

Things as great and as terrible as you would imagine it is the greatest place I miss it so much every year it’s the best and you know it seems like bombing is almost a part of the process it’s like a right of passage when you do that is

There a set that you look back on and think of as like a comedy nightmare there was a gig in Edinburgh I I I’m not sure if it still goes uh it started at 1: in the morning it was called late in life and it was a bare pit so it’s um

Starts at 1 notoriously aggressive uh there was one time i’ bombed already very fun uh and then a comedian had gone on after me had done really well and he was getting an encore and as he came off we agreed that it would be funny if I took

His Encore so I then went back on and a guy smashed a glass a beer glass on the table in front of me and he said if you tell another joke I’m going to stab you and I said to him this this anger in you

It just can’t be about me and he said it really is and you know that’s one of the happiest memories of edin Brook I have is have a guy saying I you are going to compel me to commit an act of violence that is how much I object to

What you think is f yes in that violence it’s not me that’s right it’s you that’s right it I promise this is you problem your implication is there are other things happening in my life there there aren’t I have a stable happy life you’ve turned it upside down and you must be Stopped queso sin queso I don’t know if um if that’s a collab i’ encourage but another level of heat but it seems like you’re kind of on top of it you know I was a little nervous with the first one but it does seem like you’ve caught a rhythm here

John oh yeah yeah I mean if you if you if you’re asking my confidence gone up no I’m still at thinking that’s smart that’s smart you know where people get into trouble is when they get overconfident at this point you know that is not possible I we’re five in I

Think we all know where this is heading you have a quote that I found interesting where you said the problem is the loudest journalism in America is generally Sayan the least can you unpackage that with our show no one in their right mind would try and do a show

About prison health no one no one wants to hear about that but they should know about it and so we’re going to force feed it to them and we’re in a very very lucky position cuz we don’t don’t have the commercial pressures that other certain news outlets do have so we are

Lucky to be able to follow whatever um whatever interest us and force feed it to people but they can’t or won’t do that and so you are left with yeah kind of yammering Talking Heads who um on on TV who are are really not talking about

Much and that the problem with being in a Perpetual election cycle and we’re in election year now never really feels like the elction year stops that’s the problem right and that takes out all the air from a room cuz you’re just talking about people but candidates like politicians whereas policies are much

More important than politicians um but we are focused on the personalities and that’s easy to do but it’s not the most important stuff Bourbon and maple think they’re concealing what the third world is promising now what’s nice about this is I do think you get a little

Maple up front you know the first thing you catch is maple mhm yep then what happens yep is there’s this tail on Maple delivered bourbon not detected but I appreciate the idea is there and then the reaper says actually I’m the star of the show that’s

Right I’m the captain now I I am the guest at this party who is going to dictate the evening are you someone who finds comfort and the stress and tension of an adversarial interview it almost seems like it would be like a prerequisite for anyone who went through the Daily Show School of

Broadcasting yeah that’s a really good question yes is the answer and I can’t really square that with who I am as a person there is something where my heart rate goes down and I don’t feel what they are feeling so yeah I don’t I I can’t really explain why I don’t mind it

And I’m and I’m drawn to hostile interviews um yeah they it brings out a side of me that I don’t particularly like but it is there okay the forbidden fruit all right mhm same with me Yep this is a jump um that wasn’t fun that’s not an experience I’m going

To look back upon with remember the good old days remember the good old days John remember funky’s hot sauce oh funky hot sauce with your Stella fuzz and your fun little cartoon fox we had fun didn’t we if I went to a Liverpool match at anfield what’s one chant and one

Obscenity I’d need to know most L chant you should probably know it’s basically Mo Sal Mo Sala running down the wing Sal la la la la the Egyptian king that’s it I think I got that yeah you can do it it’ll be great my my kids knew that song

Before they knew anything else if right now if I say to them mo they’ll just even if they’re a different room they’ll say one in down the wing that’s right kids that’s right where does nailing that free kick in uh sea when you’re covering the where does that fall on

Your list of career accomplishments it has to be up there it is so depressingly high I I’m genuinely embarrassed to say how much it meant to me scoring that free kick in my head I’m seeing a wall of like four or five like six foot guys and it bending

All the way and then kissing the bottom of the crossbar and going in it it went in and I just started running absolute Joy Hing through my body and yeah it’s one of the best sporting moments of my life and I think and the whole thing was kind of set up

As a joke right it wasn’t a game he might have let it in but um the fact I scored I think a serviceable free kick in Soo is spectacular I mean I’ve been putting this off but I guess there’s uh there’s nowhere to run no no all right okay this you know almost

Immediately holy [ __ ] [ __ ] mhm who M and I’m not going to lie to you John it’s just going to kind of build from here a little bit oh that’s good to know yeah you know I just want to be transparent good yeah thanks I’m pretty I’m pretty angry at

That yeah no I get it are you about to smash a glass please don’t stab me John it’s not about you Sean I know it’s not about you um so how many of these have you had in your life I’ll estimate 3155 times you’re going to die aren’t you but I

Made it so far you know what I mean maybe I’m actually sure you made it so far it feels like the science hasn’t caught up to what you’re doing to your body yet I’m one W you know this feels yeah this feels like the kind of stomach

Version of CTE for football players yeah yeah they’re going to cut your stomach open and realize oh yeah you can’t in a medical journal actually isn’t okay um and then just be careful around your eyes you know what I mean cuz you have it on your fingers I can see the tears

Coming so I’m just be very careful be very careful and you know what while you endure that I know that you spend over a month preparing to systemically dissect all these complex issues on your show but after the bomb I think it just be kind of fun to get your totally

Unprepared raw take on some hot topics so I’ll just throw just to be clear everything that I just said I don’t like you want me to do now what I like is you know considered I wish the news did it more take your time right right render a

Coherent opinion make sure you back it up don’t shoot from the hip what you’re saying is the walls are closing in and I’ve pulled the guns The Muppets The Muppets yes Muppets okay I love the Muppets so much in many ways crazy this might sound we’ve kind of modeled the

Show around the Muppets um those big things that they uh did the you know the big things The Muppets did I don’t know what I’m talking about now I love I love I love um puppets Sean um love Island this feels like my Vietnam I shouldn’t have got into this

And I’ve got no good way out yeah and you the the Napalm is you could feel it in the room sorry you were saying love Island love Island love island is um Britain Britain’s ID um it is you take us if you take us at our best with Monty Python I’m afraid you

Must also take us at our worst with love Island George Santos George Santos Joel Santos in office I kind of turned on it seemed like at the start this guy has no place in politics towards the end I thought I kind of love this guy he’s

This part of me I not a part that I particularly respect one TR mut thinking I love well now what’s he doing he’s got a mystery baby sounds right come on George what do you got next felt like he was his whole time in office he was get

Produced by Andy Cohen in a way that I genuinely liked de bom beond Insanity to bom behind Insanity that is just an objectionable thing for Humanity to do right it’s not the worst thing we’ve ever done but it’s part of our worst instincts it’s really terrible but you’ve deserve survived it and it’s

Behind us you never be able to take that away from you say that I couldn’t say I’d be completely surprised if I woke up in a hospital room now and they said oh no you you blacked out after queso sin queso so what what the [ __ ] is

This mat SOS hot sauce and it’s a monkey in a top hat which I do like is this going to be worse no nothing’s going to be as bad let you just say it won’t be fun but it will not be worse yeah that’s a perfect description of

This this is not fun but not worse why am I still eating it I don’t know I’m following along with you how why on Earth I’m eating more of that maybe you’ll like it you know yeah there’s a tension that you find comforting yeah exactly there a deeply

Selfworth of you deserve it you deserve the monkey in the Hat spitting its metallic Venom At You of the odd jobs that you worked before TV which do you remember fonder shoveling oats as a factory worker or working the phones for someone who trafficked and stolen kitchen

Appliances I did do both of those things there was one there was one OD job that I had that one summer when I was a kid I was a cashier at like a independent little Supermarket it was when there were price stickers on things you had to input it

To make the day go interestingly I kind of had kind of dynamic pricing system for people so the people like I would overcharge some people I could undercharge others so it was it was basically operating my own kind of Taxation system on I know that you’ve

You you came up in a nice car bad news these beans are going to cost more than you thinks this woman comes in with four kids these beans are going to be half pric for you and it it made it work so it was it was like my perfect version of

Making um you know the world you’re like a Robin Hood you’re you’re a cashier Robin Hood yeah that was a fun job though yeah all right John all right wow okay so what’s this oh what the hell we’ve come this far do you do is that all right let me

See yeah that’s generous okay i’ maybe do one of these do yeah hit it with one of those I’m at a point to be honest where um I’m not sure I can feel anything anymore I feel like a spice so we’re on the other side we’re on the

Other side yeah well cheers John what won Salo we did it mhm I mean and again like the last one not fun but it’s all behind us yeah it kind of doesn’t matter it doesn’t matter anymore right this resets your body’s expectations of what is allowable the

Hard part’s over John we just have one more question for you and to do it I want to kick it back to when we had Trevor Noah in the show okay and he said that the parting words that he received from John Stewart when taking over the

Show was yeah I’m leaving because I’m old and angry and you’re young and happy so enjoy it while it lasts is someone who’s marinated in news headlines and commentary for nearly two decades how do you think your work has shaped your view of the future like do you think that

You’ve been permanently fossilized in a kind of cynicism or does your experience give you like an oddly optimistic look at what’s ahead a really good question I think to a certain extent yes but not beyond that I think when the deeper you look into these stories the more flawed you realize

Things are systemically but the more you encounter people work incredibly hard to change things like clockwork at some point during a story I’ll leave my office and go into Tim’s office who I run the show with and we’ll say burn it down just burn everything to the ground cuz it

Feels like things so bad in a story only Flames are going to purify the hell that we’ve built for ourselves but you do then work through that much like this shitty hot sauce uh to realizing that in lie of even as you’re waiting for major change that you think might

Not come incremental changes possible and value people do it was that coherent I’m not sure what I just said nailed the Dismount John Oliver look at you taking on at you the wings of death living to tell the tale like hitting that free kick in suo that’s right right at the

Top baby kiss the crossbar went in I’m running goal and now there’s nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you this camera this camera this camera let the people know what you have going on in your life I think what what I like about this in

General I think is is you know a lot people complain about the filibuster that a price should be paid for something you know that they say that you shouldn’t just be able to say f bus you should stand on your feet for 18 hours and go to the have to wear a

Diaper this feels like a vers of that for promotion doesn’t it there should be a price to pay that’s what we thought that’s that’s literally the thesis of the show you got a B minus movie you want to sell earn it earn it dance for

Me um um I I I don’t have much to say our show is back on um February the 18th I’m pretty sure that’s the accurate date can I plug other people’s things yeah go ahead um best book I’ve read for a while was Patrick rad and Keef say nothing

Have you read that no your recommendation fantastic i’ would recommend you read say nothing by Patrick Ren Keef and yeah I’m not Patrick Ren Keith even though if you told me right now that I was I wouldn’t argue wow that’s the hot one’s experience yeah

And it is an experience isn’t it I can see why people feel closer to you at the end of this if we traa band because you exactly you go through a common experience come over here and give me a hug it’s like it’s like we’ve been through battle together thanks so much

Mate really nice to meet you it was really fun hey what’s going on hot ones fans this is Sean Evans thank you so much for watching today’s episode and if you would like to get the taste of hot ones delivered right to your door well I have

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