Drunk History

I've been watching Drunk History online for awhile. Great show. Only one I didn't like was the Duncan Trussel episode

 

If find the show quite hilarious!

 

Classic drunk humor: Foster Brooks at any of the Dean Martin roasts.

 

Foster Brooks was the funniest "Drunk" ever.

 

That was back when "drunk" in comedy was sometimes considered to be funny rather than an affront and danger to society.

There aren't a lot of settings in which drunk comedy still plays. I'm not familiar with Drunk History, but the only other instance I can think of at the moment is SNL's "Drunk Uncle" skits on the weekend newscast.

 

I find the show to be pretty funny...
Fishheadjoe

 

Stand up comic, Doug Stanhope. Always performs while drinking and smoking and always in the zone between "buzzed" and "drunk". Never so intoxicated that he's flubbing his lines and slurring his words.

He often uses drinking and drugs as comedic material but he's not making being drunk part of the act so I suppose he doesn't qualify for what you're describing.

 

I loved the Lewis & Clark one with Alie & Georgia narrating and Aubrey Plaza as Pocahontas. Best line:

Lewis was like if Morrissey had a blog and a canoe.

 

Who's Morrissey? No idea.

 

Morrissey was the lead singer of The Smiths and also had a successful solo career. His music is known for having a depressing, morose quality to it. They were comparing him to Meriwether Lewis who they characterized as being "kind of a bummer" and was rumored to have committed suicide.

 

I have caught 4 or 5 episodes. Funny stuff, I'm hooked.
Ron White acts like he performs drunk. I can't say for sure as I don't know it's real booze he consumes.

 

Thanks. Sounds like I didn't miss anything I'd have been interested in.

The Meriweather Lewis I'm familiar with explored the west around 1800; not sure how anyone would compare a contemporary singer to him, but that's up to "them", I guess.

 

In my British Literature class we were to make a presentation on a given part of the Canterbury Tales. Everyone else made a 10-minute powerpoint, I made a 30-minute Drunk History episode. I love that show.

 

check out the dolly parton episode of "drunk history". hysterical!