[1] Its basic premise involves celebrities being interviewed by Evans over a platter of increasingly spicy chicken wings.

The guests are furnished with whatever soothing condiments they think will counteract the effect of the wings, including glasses of water and milk as well as ice cream.

In 2021 Hot Ones appeared in a Saturday Night Live sketch featuring Maya Rudolph as Beyoncé, the guest eating spicy wings, and Mikey Day as Evans.

[6] In 2017, First We Feast featured an episode of Sean in the Wild, using sauces from Hot Ones, starring Evans and Michael Stevens from Vsauce.

[7] In 2024, the show was purchased from BuzzFeed for $82.5 million by an investment group that included Evans, Schonberger, Mythical Entertainment, Crooked Media, and George Soros.

[8][9] The nineteenth episode of the fourth season featuring Mario Batali was removed in 2017 in light of the sexual misconduct allegations towards him.

Hosted by Evans, the series pitted players against one another for a chance to win up to $25,000 in a competition that involved both trivia and eating hot sauce.