Is Conan O'Brien the best 'Hot Ones' guest ever? Discuss.

By now, someone's probably sent you the clip of Conan O'Brien on the internet series Hot Ones, going full chaos gremlin: red-cheeked, sweating, drooling, his face smeared with hot sauce and bellowing about seizing the moment ("This isn't a bit! This is LIIIIIFE!"). He looks crazed. If you haven't yet seen that clip, sit tight. It's going viral, as the kids used to say.

And it's not the first time. You know that Paul Rudd meme, where he grins widely, radiating warmth and camaraderie ("Hey. Look at us.")? That's from Hot Ones, too. Ditto Jennifer Lawrence panicking and laugh-sobbing ("What do you mean? What do you MEAN?").

Now it's Conan's turn. He turned up on the show to promoteand wasted no time seizing control of the interview and the premise itself. O'Brien is, he and his colleagues in the writers' room would be sitting around a table; they'd be pitching jokes, and he'd be miming an elaborate routine in which he was an astronaut strapping himself into a rocket ship – all for the benefit of the guys across the table from him. On his podcast,, he tosses out an incessant series of bits to the delight (mostly) of his producer and assistant. There's a restless, needy quality to his comedy that would be worrisome if his instincts weren't so sharp if he wasn't funny as he is.