I’ve been watching Drunk History each week (oh, and by the way, I’m very close personal friends with Craig Cackowski, one of the regular cast), but I had no idea about one of the stories last night - the ***Superman ***radio series, in the 1940’s, helped depopularize the Ku Klux Klan, whose strength had been growing again.
Cool! And kind of funnily narrated by a drunk guy.
I’m pretty sure Freakonomics is where I read about it.
Cool, he’s great. My wife took improv classes from his sister Liz Cackowski who shows up a lot in Apatow movies and was a writer for SNL.
Also, Craig was really funny in an episode of Veep he appeared in.
And I learned a lot more about James Wilkes Booth in the DC episode than I ever did in school. And Cackowski is great.
The improved production values and the city by city format are really working for the TV version. I never thought they could top some of the Funny or Die episodes but I think they are on track.
One of my favorite things in each segment is seeing what minor role Derek Waters decides to take.
I love that show, even though I’ve BEEN that drunk person telling a dumb story. (That has real facts in it. The story, I mean. And the being drunk.)
But watching the actors mouth the words to the drunk story absolutely kills me everytime.
Drunk History really is about history? I assumed it was just a sketch show with perhaps some costumes. I’ll have to check it out.
But they were smart to keep a lot of the ‘dumbness’ of costumes. The bad, ill-fitting wigs and clothes match the drunk storytelling well.
It’s both. A drunk comedian tells something historical, and their narration is used as a framework for costumed sketches. I quite enjoyed the first episode, possibly even learned a little something. It reminded me of college parties with friends who were politics or history majors…
I love this show. It’s stupid and smart at the same time.
Weren’t the original web shows narrated by actual drunk historians?
Nope, drunk comedians. My favorite was Jen Kirkman talking about the relationship between Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, acted out by Will Ferrell, Don Cheadle, and Zooey Deschanel. It’s fantastic. Here’s the link.
If you’re not familiar with the concept, definitely watch that one.
Unfortunately I can’t watch, since Comedy Central has lately gotten this odd idea that it’s a bad idea to put whole episodes online, and no one else seems to care enough to upload them elsewhere. So, like The Soup, I can’t watch.
I just discovered this show a couple of weeks ago. I’ve only seen one episode so far and loved it. Glad I’m not the only one.
Importantly, the two are done simultaneously. The scene cuts back & forth between the drunk comedian and the costumed sketch performers, but they just lip-sync the drunken comedian’s dialog, including any rambling or misspoken words. Makes it even funnier!
It’s somewhat more interesting than sober history.
So, history not only repeats itself, it also slurs its words and mumbles?
And occasionally barks and sneezes.
This pithy statement is full of win!
That is annoying. I don’t have cable and the only show I watch on CC is the Daily Show which does have full episodes.
I would like to see more of those so hopefully Netflix or Hulu will get them soon.
There was one episode where the narrator call a phone call from her mother in the middle of the recording and the actors also acted out that conversation.
I’m sure I’ve seen a couple that were narrated by real historians. At least, they were college history majors (master’s degree students, perhaps?), not comedians.