Comedy Central forces comedians to confront their least favorite things in this fun online original.
, but the only game Bornstein is playing is one of pain and misery. Sweet, tender, friendly, hilarious misery.Paste
. “We’re all weird, gross humans. I love a format that lifts a curtain, and helps us get honest. Whether it’s running in ice socks and boxing your roommate, or games and karaoke, or getting coffee in a car, or forcing people to eat spicy chicken wings, it’s all a fun way in!” So far Bornstein has made Richardson exercise in skinny jeans and Byer confront an internet troll face-to-face . Nothing beats the particular punishment he put Yang through, though, at least not in Bornstein’s opinion. “It’s hard to beat stripping down and having Jimmy O. Yang clean me in a bucket full of oatmeal and molasses,” he says.
As brutal as that might be, Bornstein’s not in it for the brutality. The goal, as he describes it, is to disarm his guests so thoroughly that they let their defenses down and act in complete candor. It’s about getting to the person inside the celebrity, stripping them of the calloused outer layer that fame forges around them, and leaving them prone and vulnerable for the whole world to see. It’s about cutting through the bullshit to get to the heart of the matter—and the matters of the heart.
“Making people do stuff they hate is just the truth serum,” Bornstein reveals. “Doing dishes together, or washing a snake, or running in stiff raw denim jeans—it’s the great equalizer, and it lets us get more honest while having fun.”Senior editor Garrett Martin writes about videogames, comedy, travel, theme parks, wrestling, and anything else that gets in his way. He’s on Twitter
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