Christopher Schonberger
Christopher Schonberger (born September 21, 1983) is an American webshow creator and producer. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of First We Feast, a food and entertainment media brand owned and operated by Complex Networks. First We Feast won the James Beard Award for Group Food Blog in 2014[1]. Schonberger is the Creator and Executive Producer of the YouTube series Hot Ones. He is also the Executive Producer of the YouTube series Sean in the Wild, Food Grails, The Burger Show, and Food Skills[2]. Before joining Complex, Schonberger was the Associate Food and Drink Editor at Time Out New York. He has written for outlets such as Bon Appetit and Lucky Peach. He was born in Washington, D.C.
Hot Ones[edit]
Main article: Hot Ones
Hot Ones is created by Schonberger and produced by FirstWeFeast.com and Complex Media. The show, hosted by Sean Evans, has roughly three million subscribers.[3][4] Its tagline, stated by Evans at the beginning of each episode, is "The show with hot questions, and even hotter wings." A new episode is posted every Thursday morning, and each episode runs 22 minutes.[5] Schonberger cites Alexa Chung's quirky interview show, Popworld, as the inspiration for the show.[6][7][8]
Schonberger and Evans have interviewed a number of celebrities, including Henry Rollins, Kevin Hart, DJ Khaled, Seth Rogen, Charlize Theron, Kevin Durant, Ja Rule, Joe Budden, Redman, Ricky Gervais, T.J. Miller, Bobby Lee, Rachael Ray, Dax Shepard, Kyle Kinane, Russell Brand, Charlie Day, Bryan Cranston, James Franco, Eddie Huang, Coyote Peterson, Eric Andre, Guy Fieri, Steve-O, Terry Crews, Post Malone, Liam Payne, Chris Jericho, and Chili Klaus.
The format involves Evans and his guest eating ten chicken wings, each prepared with a progressively hotter hot sauce. The first sauce in the series is usually Sriracha, which has a rating of 2,200 Scoville units. The final sauce, Blair's Mega Death Sauce with Liquid Rage, has a Scoville rating of 550,000. Every season they rotate out some of the hot sauces for new ones. In season 4, a new sauce was revealed named The Last Dab. It is a sauce created by Hot Ones themselves and includes the new hottest pepper, Pepper X. The Scoville for the pepper is still being tested but is about to break the record with an average of 3.18 million Scoville units. The sauce is projected to be around 2 million Scoville units. After each wing, Evans asks his guest an interview question. As the wings get hotter, the guest begins to display the effects of eating the spicier wings and the interview becomes less about the guest and more about the struggle to finish the wings. The guests are also provided glasses of water and milk to counteract the effect of the wings. The standard show is Evans and one guest eating ten wings each, but in some episodes where there are two guests (such as the episode featuring Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele) only five wings are given to each guest. A guest who successfully finishes all ten wings is given the opportunity to promote their upcoming projects; guests who fail are still afforded this opportunity but are added to the show's infamous Hall of Shame.
Bibliography[edit]
- ↑ "The 2014 James Beard Award Winners!". www.jamesbeard.org. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- ↑ "First We Feast". YouTube. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- ↑ "Hot Ones - YouTube". YouTube. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- ↑ Steinberg, Don (2018-03-27). "Celebs Will Say Anything if You Blast Them With Hot Sauce". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- ↑ Steinberg, Don (2018-03-27). "Celebs Will Say Anything if You Blast Them With Hot Sauce". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- ↑ H3 Podcast (2018-03-25), H3 Podcast #58 - Sean Evans of Hot Ones, retrieved 2018-03-27
- ↑ "Episode 334: Sean Evans, Chris Schonberger, Native Sun from Snacky Tunes". www.stitcher.com. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
- ↑ Harris, Jenn. "This guy eats hot wings with celebrities for a living. Seriously". latimes.com. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
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