Sean Evans, the host of YouTube’s Sizzling Ones — an unconventional interview program that launched a decade in the past promoting itself as “the present with scorching questions, and even hotter wings,” and has gone on to launch 369 episodes which have attracted greater than 4 billion views and featured the consumption of some 3,000 spicy rooster wings — is the visitor on this episode of The Hollywood Reporter‘s Awards Chatter podcast, which was recorded in entrance of a journalism class at Chapman College.
Sizzling Ones has been described by Self-importance Truthful as “the closest factor the Web has to a late-night speak present” and by the New York Occasions as “a breakthrough pop-culture phenomenon” — the present has even been spoofed on Saturday Evening Reside and The Simpsons — whereas Evans, 39, has been hailed by Forbes as “among the many nation’s most revered interviewers” and by Bloomberg as “the David Letterman of Era YouTube.”
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Over the course of a dialog in entrance of — and finally together with — college students enrolled within the Chapman College course “The Artwork of the Interview,” Evans mirrored on what was occurring in his life and in journalism that resulted within the creation of Sizzling Ones for Complicated’s First We Feast weblog, which was later acquired by BuzzFeed; how he prepares for and conducts interviews; what motivated and can consequence from the 2024 buy, by Evans and a consortium of others, of Sizzling Ones from Buzzfeed for $82.5 million; how he feels about Sizzling Ones changing into eligible for Primetime Emmys in the identical classes as the normal late-night speak exhibits that impressed him as a child; plus rather more.