This interview lectorial just had me thinking of interviews, especially in pop culture, specifically how most interviews these days can frustrate celebrities so much due to the monotonous nature of them all. It kind of frustrates me too, to say have some interest in following an actor/actress or musician, to the extent where I’d want to watch some interviews in which they are the interviewee, and for all the questions and answers to be on average exactly the same as all the other ones.

And yeah, started thinking about the marginally innovative interviews I’d been watching recently, generally seeming to have a unique point of difference that allowed for that to be the underlying focus over the questions that are asked (which is what the production company’s are hoping travel the most)

The first that comes to mind is “Hot Ones”, which is just a 20 minute long video with a FPOI (Famous Person of Interest), and they’re just being interviewed whilst consuming progressively more spicy chicken wings, with progressively more spicy hot sauce. Throughout the video there are cryptic mentions or allusions to the crux of the content that is meant to be taken, like Charlie Day here is being interviewed to promote his new film, pretty sure it’s the one with The Rock and it’s about two teachers about to fight each other?? Great stuff.

The second is Nardwuar, who is just another one that falls into the list of all-time greatest interviewers, and his niche lies in the fact that he does such extensive research (probably stalking) of the subject that he is able to supply them with cryptic gifts throughout the video as cues for these completely random life moments of theirs, it generally seems to elicit such great responses, lots of suprise from the interviewee, and it’s really just great to watch

Between two ferns?