A chat present idea would not get any less complicated than YouTube favourite Scorching Ones. Since 2015, the format of the present, with the tagline, “The present with the most popular questions, and even hotter wings” hasn’t modified: Host and creator Sean Evans interviews a celeb visitor over a platter of hen wings, 10 every, with every wing getting more and more hotter. The distinctive, informal ambiance lends itself to friends being open to giving intensive, unfiltered solutions to Evans’ insightful and well-researched questions, whereas their reactions to the growing Scoville scale spiciness of every wing humanizes the movie star.

The responsible pleasure of seeing if a celeb could make it via all 10 sauces or find yourself on the “Wall of Disgrace” definitely would not damage, both. The viewer, that’s — the movie star most likely hurts like hell. The collection has been spun off a number of occasions, together with Scorching Ones: The Recreation Present and Fact or Dare: Speedy Fireplace, however one spinoff is really odd and distinctive. Effectively, odd, however not distinctive by any means, apart from the truth that, not like the OG collection, Scorching Ones Québec options an episode with a world chief.

‘Scorching Ones Québec’ Says “Bonjour” to Canadian PM Justin Trudeau

That world chief is none apart from Canadian Prime Minister — and childhood good friend of Matthew Perry, Justin Trudeau. Trudeau joined Scorching Ones Québec host Marc-André Grondin, who you would possibly bear in mind as hockey participant Xavier LaFlamme in Goon and its follow-up, Goon: Final of the Enforcers, for the usual 10-wing interview on the December 12, 2024 episode of the collection (“commonplace” is the important thing phrase — we’re getting there). Whereas his potential to steer the nation is up for debate (oh, and it has been debated up right here within the Nice White North), Trudeau’s look on Scorching Ones Québec supplied candid and humorous, insights into the person.

For one, Trudeau has some severe tolerance for the consequences of scorching sauce, or, because the French name it, “sauce piquante,” taking a chunk right into a sauce known as Da’ Bomb, rated at 135,600 on the Scoville scale, with out batting a watch (the identify did elicit a chuckle about not saying it out loud at an airport). He confirmed a weak aspect, expressing severe considerations about how public response weighs on his kids, particularly figuring out first-hand what it is like being the son of a Prime Minister himself (Pierre Trudeau, for the report).

To not point out, he shared a really comic story a few time in 2016 when German chancellor Angela Merkel requested if he had ever learn an interview with Donald Trump in a circa 1980 Playboy journal, telling Grondin that he admitted to Merkel, “If I used to be taking a look at Playboy within the Eighties, it wasn’t to learn articles on Donald Trump!”

Sorry, however ‘Scorching Ones Québec’ Is Simply Odd

Scorching Ones Québec did land Trudeau, however apart from two others chances are you’ll know — Kevin Steen, aka Kevin Owens of the WWE and Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse, a bit participant in Darren Aronofsky‘s mom! — the celebrities are largely unknown exterior of Québec. Not that there is something incorrect with that, after all. That solely is sensible. However what makes Scorching Ones Québec so odd is that “commonplace” talked about earlier: There’s nothing that separates it from its guardian collection. Actually. Host Marc-André Grondin is Sean Evans’ doppelgänger. The hen wings for the sauces are the identical. The idea is similar. Aside from how the desk is ready up (one desk versus two spherical tables) and the truth that you probably don’t know who Sean Evans le Deux is even speaking to, it will be straightforward to imagine that the collection is simply the unique Scorching Ones, solely dubbed in French.

The query, then, is, why do a carbon copy of one other collection when you’ve gotten the chance to do one thing totally different with it? Canadianize it. As a substitute of Sean Evans le Deux, get a big-ass lumberjack fella to host. As a substitute of hen wings, why not boost some poutine, and possibly have some Timbits from Tim Horton’s close by to supply some reduction from the sauces piquante? Overlook a “Wall of Disgrace,” how about 5 minutes within the penalty field for being a wuss? We’re kidding — possibly.

However all that stated, Québec has a historical past of straight-up adapting American TV reveals as is, solely français, together with Survivor Québec and Escouade 99, a French-Canadian adaptation of Brooklyn 9-9 that was hit with controversy earlier than even airing, so it is not shocking Scorching Ones Québec would not stray too far. However hey, they bought Trudeau, proper? Yeah, however Scorching Ones bought Donald Duck. Recreation, set, match.