Mikey Day interviews Sean Evans as Sean Evans

The SNL impersonation leads to a genuine question about why success can make someone feel more like an imposter.

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Mikey Day Breaks Character While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones

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2:11Day recalls developing his Sean Evans impression for SNL sketches alongside Maya Rudolph.
5:43A hot-sauce-bottle cake challenge begins; the reveal comes at 07:05.
8:18Day recalls a Godzilla sketch requiring Matt Damon and cast members to repeatedly spit liquid into his face.
17:21Day demonstrates his Steve-O impression while struggling with the heat from Da' Bomb.
21:42Dressed as Evans, Day asks whether hosting Hot Ones has ever felt like playing an unnatural persona.
22:03Evans explains that age and success can increase self-consciousness and feelings of being an imposter.

Mikey Day arrives on Hot Ones calling himself its "least famous guest." By the final wing, he is dressed as the host and asking Sean Evans a question that reaches beyond the impression: has the job ever felt like playing someone who isn't quite himself?

Evans' answer is unexpectedly candid. Getting older and becoming successful, he explains, can bring more self-consciousness rather than less. "I can feel like more of an imposter now than when I started," he says. Matching brown jackets and bald caps make an unusually silly setting for that admission.

The conversation starts with Day discussing how he developed his Evans impression for Saturday Night Live sketches alongside Maya Rudolph. Having the real host across the table gives the impersonator a chance to examine his subject, before eventually taking over the questions himself.

Day's other hosting job gets a turn, too. Evans presents an Is It Cake? challenge involving hot sauce bottles, with a Los Calientes Rojo bottle revealed as Melissa Alt Cakes' edible handiwork. Viewers in the comments propose a further twist: making one of the wings cake and keeping quiet until the bite.

Elsewhere, Day recalls Matt Damon and fellow cast members repeatedly spitting liquid into his face during an SNL Godzilla sketch. He also attempts his Steve-O impression while struggling through Da' Bomb. The episode is sponsored by Grand Theft Auto VI.

But the exchange between the two Seans gives the interview its most revealing answer: even the person being impersonated doesn't always feel entirely comfortable in the role.

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Anyone else wanted one of the wings to be cake and not being revealed until the bite was taken?! 😂
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Sean interviewing Sean at the end was a chefs kiss moment!!!
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Now we need Sean Evans on SNL doing bits about Sean Evans.
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