J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

After hundreds of episodes of Hot Ones, there’s little a guest can do to shake up the reliable formula of thoughtful questions combined with increasingly spicy chicken wings. But Conan O’Brien isn’t ...

Of my almost four decades on this planet, there’s no one quite like Conan O’Brien. For years, the orange-haired comedian has sharply blended intellect with slapstick and satire with silliness — all ...

Celebrity-interviewing/torturing show Hot Ones has routinely been injected into social media whenever a particularly funny wing-eating session goes viral. The last time this happened was with Sydney ...

Conan O’Brien has proved to be the king of awards shows. O’Brien has hosted many award ceremonies through the years, including the 2025 Academy Awards. “There’s a lot of different parts of [preparing ...