Kate McKinnon details angler fish mating rituals while surviving ‘Hot Ones’

Comedian, actor, and author Kate McKinnon hit the seitan wings on Hot Ones this week, and reader, “The wings, they are hot.”

Running through hot vegan wings of steadily increasing spice level, The Roses star unpacked host Sean Evans‘ staggeringly well-researched questions about her career on Saturday Night Live, playing screwball protagonists, finding the essence of comedic characters through juxtaposition, doing impressions as a kid, and her book series The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science.

“I can feel it on my tongue, mentally,” McKinnon says. “You’re ruining my mind through pepper and it’s working.”

The highlight? McKinnon explaining angler fish mating rituals and their “dangling sacks of gonads” in detail holding a toothpick like a cigarette. It’s frankly superb.