I have had the GREAT fortune of listening to every Penn Jillette Radio Podcast ever produced. His stories about working with bees were incredible. The best was when they did a stunt like this, and Penn was basically pumped up on stimulants to prevent anaphalaxis/ death from a toxic dose of bee venom. The venom still had an effect that led to, as he put it, much of the outer layers of skin from his genitalia peeling off in his underwear later that night. When he went to the doctor, the doctor accused him of taking poor-quality street drugs, as that was the "only kind of poison" to cause that kind of allergic reaction. This was before Penn mentioned the bees, of course. :)

(But his 'hairdryer' story was better, and made my wife blush!)