Issa Rae Raps While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones

Hello, what's happening everyone? First, we feast. I'm Sean Evans and you're looking at the most interesting

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. Today we're joined by ISA Ray, she's the Emmy-nominated creator and star of the hit HBO series. insecure now in its third season catch it on sundays 10:30 p.m. oriental shining an easy easter ray welcome to the show Matt, thanks for having me, you said in a recent AMA that you can never have enough hot sauce, so I guess you're comfortable with hot

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. I love

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food, but I also had to come get a you know, water and next to me, so I'm going to eat you, you know, ready to go.

I'm ready to get everything working fine, so this first one is the howler monkey and you'll start at the handle started working fine. I'm very hungry, so thank you. Well, I start with a small piece and a cello, so we couldn't bring you here without talking about the unsafe season 3. The streets are packed. I see signs everywhere. place but we have what we get into it I think we have to address the elephant in the room and that is lawrence hive the cut described lawrence hive is the male response to the bee hive for the uninitiated what is lawrence hive and what effect has it had in Your life, um, Lawrence, it has had no effect on my life.

I mean, one minute, it's been great because a lot of kids are involved in the show and the fact that they've rallied around J Ellis as he plays this serious character is amazing, but they're out of control, they're out of pocket. , they're really, really intense, which is what you dream about when you make a show of all the 18 restaurants featured on the show, which one is your favorite to actually visit. life Wow there is more this season as we have our place called frying pans the season I like to have breakfast all the time whenever I can the line I love Roy Choi's restaurants and we have the pot they are quiet high Islamic comm

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ry we film on the table or marked of course first pilot episode ethiopian food that restaurant is like my first introduction one of my first late introductions to ethiopian food this one is really good first i like barbecue it's okay but you can still try no i think it's just scorched earth like okay , okay, that's not going to be the boss at all, you have a competitive advantage, so

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you were at Stanford you created a bedroom web series Diaries that you said was born out of procrastination and being on YouTube constantly, remember? web programs or Internet videos are you?

Looking back then at people lip-syncing at the zoo, oh, there are a lot of them. There was an application video that I loved. He liked this reality show called Busty Baby and it is the most iconic video I have seen to this day. seen, I don't even know if it's done on the Internet, but there are a lot of colleagues who create things and then you love writing what you know, when it's clear from seeing an awkward black girl and seeing an insecure person you've had. Some boring as hell 9 to 5 seconds in your life When I think about the odd jobs you had before showbiz, are there any that stand out?

Yeah, working on a slave ship in a museum, yeah, that was hard, you know, not that hard. slavery, but it was depressing to be there every day and that was yeah, I'm glad I got out, I'm glad I invented it, so next up is Pirates Lantern, who calls them Pirate Lantern like because fire mm- hmm, okay, I get it, it's okay, I don't like it, it's bitter, it has some mustardy action. Sorry Pirates Laner, you'll have to apologize okay, so if anyone ever gave the hot

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a $1 million budget, I have no idea. of what we do with money, how we would spend it, so I'm curious about when HBO gave you your first big bag to make insecure season 1, what was the most amazing thing about having money and then what was the biggest waste that I used. do this for $5 in my bedroom, oh man, oh definitely go to Staples Center and film a fake, expensive, super expensive hockey game and wills thrown by HBO, we were going to try to fake it because really the kind of flirting is good. son with status that there are real games happening and we were going to overlook it in the budget and then yell at Amy to grab it, one of the executives says, look, if Silicon Valley can shoot up the Staples Center, then it can be unsafe, so let's go.

Make a band, don't fake this, let's do it for real. I thought we have to be like that and what infuriates me the most is when we have to film scenes like cars. She did a lot of this season. hours to set it up because you have to have a process trailer and we used to like I used to be like at home and you get in the car that I'm going to drive, you take the next car to drive, you just hold the camera like this and we take the photo, you know , or we put a dash cam and it's so expensive and time consuming that they won't let you put a camera in the car, let's say there's someone watching this in Omaha, Nebraska, they're 1,500 miles away. from Hollywood and have in their hands what they believe is the best script since The Godfather, how would you suggest they get someone important to read it?

Someone just yesterday stopped me. I was walking in a time square with the walk through Times Square because I wanted to look at our sign, I've never seen a sign that big and I realized it's amazing and this guy stopped me and said, "I may never get the chance to go back to see you every time mommy walks here and he said." I wrote this script and I just want to know what I have to do and I thought I'd make a trailer, show people why they want to see it and then people will come to you and I think that's the most important thing if your The Thing is the next Godfather, If you have a trailer or you film a scene that is phenomenal and that piques people's interest, we are in a time where everyone is willing to support it, it was great, this is interesting, so you are a child of the Internet, a master of the art of relationship writing and a self-proclaimed professional stalker.

What I want to do is take the opportunity to talk to you about the strange world of dating in the age of technology. Do you think apps like Tinder and The League are net positive or net negative for the dating scene you're trying to connect with. Instead, we can be perfect if you're trying to meet someone, as so many people have these days because we have so many. options it's just as easy to get discouraged by one thing as you could write the wrong thing on your profile and be ridiculed for it it's just another way to meet people and make the world a flatter place we have a friend who responds to every Tinder match by saying what we did it with two trophy emojis is that genius or the worthless psychopath every game every game he hits them with we did it in two trophy emojis and it's not sincere I don't like it I don't think about and then writing and insecure is really in the zeitgeist, but there are some places where millennial slang travels faster than it does in the dating world, so what I want to do is introduce you to some new school dating terms, and if you know them, maybe you can define them . for the audience and if you don't know them, maybe you can guess what they mean, okay, they're all real, they're all real, breadcrumbs, what bread, breadcrumbs mm-hmm it's like this when you are these is when you like it, it's Well, eat it, they're like extra crumbs, so what's it like leading someone on the trail of flirty messages but then leaving them out was a close call? hose, you got a rotation, you got a list and you gotta put one aside, you gotta put a couple on the bench, yeah, Bing Bing Bing Bing Bing, it's cuffing season, cuffing season is that time usually during the winter months, perhaps beginning in late fall. where you have to find a boo to keep you warm there it is and then the slow fade oh it's that when you're basically something good you like to give a message here and there you slowly back away mm-hmm and then one more kitten fishing that sounds, I don't want you to me cheat, but I think about kittens, nothing about mm-hmm, it's a minor form of catfishing, like using old photos or sending you a witty text message from a friend.

I love that you like Cyrano de Bergerac messages and via text, that's a very good name, well let's get into it first of all, these wings are bound where they actually come from a thank you. I was about to take credit for them like I did, but we get them from a place called my belly playlist. the playlist in my belly. is on point, mm-hmm, okay, so we have a recurring segment on our show called Explain That, Graham, where you do a deep dive and I guess Instagram pulls out interesting images that need more context, so I'll pull out the laptop and I will show you. the picture and then you tell me the bigger story is that my Instagram from your Instagram sounds good but we actually pulled some Gettys laptop IDs okay Lisa first things first haha ​​star game with Diddy, it was wonderful, I didn't do it.

I wouldn't go with him, I'd like to, but it was the first time I'd seen him and I was sitting on the court, and I bought tickets and he was diagonal and he came up and asked me for a photo and Minnie invited me to lunch. He was like, Let's go to lunch and I was like, "Okay, this is Hollywood," it was like no, I want to have you at my house for the night and then he actually texted me and followed it up and I was in the living room. of writers and I said, guys, I have to go. going to lunch at his house didn't say anything to him and I thought it was going to be a quick thing but he tried to have a full meal and you think it was amazing but I told him to go back to work.

It was like, okay, okay, we'll hurry up, we'll get all the courses out at once and I felt bad that I didn't come back, do you have a Tiffany story? Do I have a Tiffany story? I have a lot of Tiffany stories, but I'm not going to say it because that's what we do well, there are two stories left between us. I do not care. I'm not going to tell that story once you can't leave us there. I will say it's one of my first times going out. With Tiffany, she met is one of my favorite stories.

She met one of our cast members, whose name will remain anonymous. I had a little party in my hotel room at Essence Fest. Her Moon Girl Trip had just come out. We all came from seeing the Premiere there and she was like what a party yet and I was like the girls from my hotel stop by and then we can go to other places and she meets one of our cast members, she walks in the door, she goes direct and it's like, hey, I'm Tiffany. He has a glass of champagne in his hand and it's like the ham is tipping over, he demonstrates his skills, how is he, okay, and then all night she was drinking more and she sat next to him and got on his face and told him that you look like that.

He likes to be slapped, I'm a slap, he said, well, not really, I don't like to be slapped and she said, yes, you do, I'm going to slap you right now, you'll come and she continued. reprimand him, but then when she told this story later, she said, oh yeah, Tiffany was trying to holla and left out that part, which tells me that I think he really likes being slapped. I'll let you guess: the cast member was so this is it. where you said it starts to get layered, I mean I can see which one is more on my nose, I just made a little pop, okay, black garlic, okay, Carolina Reaper is that hot pepper, super hot, yeah, I've eaten two of those, actually, you I ate the real peppers, yeah, like the whole pod popped it twice, why did you do this for the views?

Respect is so insecure that it has joined shows like Entourage in the OSI with this incredible track record of groundbreaking music. I'm curious to know what it entails. sound tracking a season of insecurity do you guys fight over tracks who is the taste maker what is the BTS in that um much love you know it started with salons being our music consultant that was great but I always knew it was a firm leap that It was like Our show could be torn apart, but the music is going to say goodbye because music informs a lot of how much I see things and even, right, we had so many songs that we love in common that even to choose broken ones we had to initially be ready. to sock-it-to-me by Missy, I love that song and I insisted that the song was great, but we couldn't get the rights in time, so Solange sent a bunch of alternative options and bossy was there and it was like the perfect fit and since then we will find independent artists female artists must what not, you look great, you look great shine is not easy as they say no it is not so next is the bow that waves the black label of Australia.

Australia doesn't play I know, I'm worried it's lemony, it's okay with lemon and

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mm-hmm, I just want to focus on the ISA raid DIY plan because today we touched on a little bit of what you went through. make web shows in your bedroom and then make this hit Emmy-nominated show for HBO, What Was Your First Mom? I did it at the moment mom mom. I made him more of a dad. I did it because dad was the one who was difficult toimpress. on NPR because I was like, oh you, I know you with dad from NPR, so stop telling me to go to grad school because you heard me about this, you know?

But even when I felt like after NPR I had the opportunity to work with Sean Dave and I sent it. I moved it to the group chat like the family group chat and he was still like "okay, cool when you want to graduate school" about what's the headline? of the most ridiculous gossip you've ever read about yourself, then I turned down at a party that was great. It was like Greg gave me some leverage, but it's ridiculous because I'm a big fan, he's okay, ISA, you're ready to move on. I don't know, not really. I will go back and eat these thanks to my mom and family. weekend okay, it tastes spicy no, this is one of those things that I'm going to kick it, I respond to my place with minimal travel, okay, I'm still going in, okay.

ISA heard that you're always obsessive about television more than movies and with so much ground like insecurity having been broken, embrace humor and awkwardness, which is part of a broader comedy genre, so what I want to do is to show you some icons of that genre and then just get your quick reaction to them, so I'm going to show you, but you're still going to go in because it's literally delicious, so first thing. First, I didn't really hear your question because my mouth was learning. Curb your enthusiasm. All time favorite I love to learn. Arrested Development.

I've watched the seasons four times and I laugh and find something I need every time. I wish I could tell the story. brilliantly the office, the best sitcom of all time and one of the best love stories on television and one more for you Parks and Recreation some pota career goals I also love Donna and Parks and Rec she gave us, give yourself a treat yourself, which is my mantra, treat yourself, yes it should be. Give yourself another wing. It was a good transition, okay Hellfire, I can see this because the attractive aspects look like someone spit on this.

It would be a difficult interview, but it's still too much of an image if they have a psychotic clown in front of them. This is a smile and it is a burning nonsense. I feel silly for h

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it up, so I know you really started honing your craft

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at Stanford, so I'm curious what's one Stanford stereotype that's totally off base and then one that's true. Is there something in that Stanford? The duck syndrome thing, oh that's it, yeah, there's a lot to that. I love that, actually, about describing Stanford students just in terms of people who aren't family, people who act like oh yeah, I'm taking 22 unisom, you know I'm not. big deal and they look like they are floating, but underneath they are just paddling to stay afloat and that is definitely somewhat true. a great community I always thought people were going to be stuck up.

I didn't want to go there. I didn't apply, but going there like admin weekend was like, oh, with school and then while you were there you did a couple's dorm. room music videos, do you have a favorite bar from work in the V era or not? A favorite bar 95 yeah because I felt like we were inspired cardd I don't care ok it was 90 pops with a friend 90 pops with a man you can You don't even do the 90 pop in a handstand that was all free. I was very proud of myself. Okay, Easter Ray. This is the last tab.

We call it the last touch because it is tradition around here to put a little more on the last wing. You don't have to do it if you don't want to If you're doing it I'm doing it there we go it's going down so this is running this here we go my throat is burning what a journey it's been this is yours that you made it look like you'd like to complete it it really looks good the place, this is how we close it ISA and from the howler monkey to the last touch, the shine is too real, but there is only one.

More obstacles stand between you at the finish line, your insecure character is famous for revealing his truest emotions when he does these simple freestyles, so now that you can see your own reflection and the dips you've conquered today, do you? can hit people? with some bars about your fight your battle with the wings of death um you know I don't do this right I'm a terrible freestyler sitting here with my wings I'm doing this like hot things I'm so fly get a chicken wing in my mouth, I I'm going to die, but I'm hot like these wings, if you're mad at me, I'll bring you the things my guns mean, I'm the only attractive son, take the gun, it was amazing, it was brilliant.

I'm inspired and I look at you through the wings of death, ten wings up, ten wings down and now there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you Issa Rae, wow, wow, this camera, this camera, let it people know what. what are you going through in your life um I'm suffering right now but I'm so excited because the third season of insecure premieres premieres on sunday at 10:30 every sunday watch it with your friends put something on someone new thanks for feed me I was so hungry. I think that's the only reason I survived.

I want to see if this works. Please, wouldn't you give me water or milk. I did it. Wow, you know it's actually kind of legendary. And when people leave, no, my daughter. without milk they give it so much importance it seems like I'm going without water without milk but like you just did it casually I don't know if I was allowed to thank you those are great questions million to 1 million three that's pretty good form Phil then you get that cool shirt didn't you listen how they are marketed, is now available. I thought you only wore Where's Waldo? shirts.

I used to wear Where's Waldo? t-shirts.