These are just short clips... i do not think these scenes happened in sequence. Eric Andre has said in an interview they do like an hour and a half of interviews and edit it down to the 10 minutes or so that it is. It looks like that dude has been through alot of shit on this show by the time he started getting pissed lmao.
Apparently they seriously fucked with him, here's just a small list of some of them - They put him in 3 layers and a winter coat when the studio was over 90 degrees - They made him wear a dog collar... but not in the usual place - They put a fart machine in his chair - They were dripping water on him the entire time - They made him play Dizzy Bat literally right before he came out the curtain (you can hear the bat drop when he walks out)
This is the best interview. Supposedly he smoked Salvia, they're dripping water on him, he's wearing a shock collar on his arm, they played "dizzy bat" right before the interview (the game with the stick), and they turn the air conditioners off for the interview. And they edit it all together to make him look crazy.
Hiøtr Björnson Snepill & TheBaxounet The water drops, shock collar, and shutting off the A/C were all mentioned by Eric in interviews. The dizzy bat and salvia I'm not so sure of, more like rumors
He knows how to just go with the flow. The tear starts flowing out for real, and he's just like, hey, I can use this! Something special going on in there. The man's a maverick.
In a podcast interview Eric Balfour said they kept shocking him with hidden electric dog collars throughout the interview, under a leaky pipe the entire time, and during breaks the make up artist powdered his face with menthol. Dude was straight up tortured for an entire hour.
So Balfour plays it off like he had no idea? As a cynic I would assume that as soon as someone even at the level of Lauren Conrad gets taken all agents would be warned to tell their clients. Same with Ali G, yet they both kept doing it over and over and over.
@@illuminotmereloaded6896 Some guests will play along with a bit, but even still there’s always a comfort limit. Eric finds that limit and absolutely violates it to the edge of what he could legally get away with, as long as he can pull 20 funny seconds from it.
@@peterwonaprize I agree with this. But Eric Balfour seems to be saying he was taken by surprise. Were you the one saying he smokes salvia? He does look fucked up. The way he is breathing and touching his hair and face. Hannibal Standing behind that low rider chair.
I love how in the madness of the show ,whenever a guest starts talking about normal things Eric goes'' what are you talking about man ,you sound insane".
God damn I wanna see what this interview was like unedited. I think Eric said he gets like an hour and a half with his guests so there is a lot of shit that went down.
My favorite Eric Andre moments is when after creating every chaotic and stress inducing situation possible, he just asks a broken and insane guest "whats wrong with you?"
People taking this seriously trying to actually dunk on the other Eric sound insane. What's going on with you? You should thank the poor man for agreeing to suffer for our amusement so we get to watch this magical dumb shit. You nasty weirdos.
To those who want to know what's wrong with him, they made him spin around with a baseball bat (hence the wood dropping sound in the background when he enters and him being off balance causing the marble statue to knock over) and a continuous drop of water came down on him from the ceiling acting as an annoying Chinese water torture, that's why he was talking about the ceiling and frustrated. Also, during many of the interviews you can see sweat and complaints about the heat.
I mean, he was also very clearly tripping though. Which must have compounded on the beyond-uncomfortable nightmarish atmosphere they cultivated to make for an impossible situation for the poor guy.
ok the reason he is acting like this is because they are literally torturing him in that chair, the strange reactions are to water dripping on him, the char moving and poking him, foul smell of whatever rotten food they dumped underneath him, and the heat in the room being like five times above room temperature.
I dunno if anyone noticed this, but I'm pretty sure 1:51 is the only time I've seen eric andre actually almost break character cause a guest reaction makes him laugh. hes telling him how do you expect to have a career and hes looking down, smiling and pretty sure trying hard not to laugh
Just for the record, I think this is the pinnacle of hilarity and one of the few shows that actually bring out the human in their guests (albeit through fairly advanced torture methods). Fucking bravo sirs. Bravo.
It was revealed by Eric Andre that during this episode, they strapped shock collets to the guests' arms and shocked them randomly. This explains the random jumping. 😂
I think this is kinda the desired result. Once they adress the fact shit is completely fkd up, its like "yes! We got em" then it makes it easier to keep the freakout going
Why is it people can't spell words. Saliva is the liquid in your mouth, Salvia is a purple flower called Sage. Sativa is a species of cannabis, like Ruderalis or Indica.
Eric Andre's face when Balfour starts freaking out at 1:28 lmao That face just says Eric ia fully god damn aware of everything that is happening to you and he's dubiously but calmly watching you fall apart 😂😄😂
vaporizethis yeah, someone on the show did it though i've been able to speak on salvia before, mind you it was all incoherent gibberish like saying i was becoming a triangle
1. The make-up artist of the show made Eric Balfour do spins around a baseball bat at the beginning so he got real dizzy (You can hear the baseball bat fall in the beginning) 2. Eric Balfour is wearing a dog collar (with electric shock) 3. The studio is super hot with no airconditioning or anything 4. There is water dripping down at Eric Balfours head through the entire interview, so he is basically going through chinese water torture 5. (Unconfirmed) He smoked salvia before the interview That's pretty much it I think! =) Best interview in television history after my opinion!
1:11 that lick of the lips and glint in his eye as eric know's he's just reeling the guy in, get him confident talking about his work and then deconstruct every atom of his being
The guests that are aware of this show and the crazy shit that goes on in it are my favorite. It's so funny seeing Eric Balfour, who obviously was put into this show by his manager or something, so tense because he realizes that as soon as he gets comfortable some crazy shit will happen. I think that's why he couldn't finish talking about his book because he was just waiting for it to all unfold
Now that Balfour admitted it himself… you can actually see the outline of one of the shock collars around one of his arms underneath his shirt lol. There’s another one on the other arm too according him. Show was brilliant back then on another level. They really fucked this guy up so he’d come off insane
I really like how despite all the insane shit that has happened on this show the thing that gets Hannibal to question something is Eric saying "Oriental"
I love how he's actually participating in the first conversation. "I mean background actresses are." And Hannibal just keeps interrupting and you can see it piss him off.
between the dizzy bat , menthol under eyes , shock collar , dripping pipe above him , and the heater on full blast .. this has to be pure torture 😂 kinda almost feel bad for the guy 😂 almost
he was on salvia. they made him play a game where he had to spin around and hit something with a stick, which is why you hear the stick drop before you see him stumble out (dizzy from spinning + salvia). eric andre asks balfour how he's doing, to which he replies by laughing. by the time he loses it, the salvia has worn off and he has gotten tired of eric andre fucking with him (This is probably 30-40 minutes later)
For anyone wondering, when Balfour says "between the fucking wa-" he's talking about the fact that they keep dripping water on him from the rafters. LOL