Hellen
I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
SpuffyWeb
Sadly Over-hyped
Contentar
Best movie of this year hands down!
SM Jefferies
First let me say that this is a great show. It's highly entertaining and it does actually teach history. However it's been my experience that in most episodes, at least one "fact" isn't actually true. One of the biggest falsehoods is the claim that Alexander Graham Bell stole the telephone from Elisha Gray. This is not true. Both men filed for patents on the exact same day and Bell's patent was not a copy of Gray's. In fact Gray's design was a variation of one Bell had come up with a year earlier. So really it was Gray who copied Bell, not the other way around. Another big falsehood is the claim that Patty Hearst woke up one day and was completely won over by her captors. The truth is she was beaten, raped and never allowed to go outside without armed escorts. Her life was under constant threat and she was always under duress. Pictures taken during the bank robbery show that some of her captors were pointing guns at her to make sure she played along. Most episodes don't have inaccuracies as big as these but they often have small ones. For example, Stetson Kennedy was not a down and out salesman but a published journalist and author. Also the phrase "banana republic" did not come from Sam "The Banana Man". It was coined by the author O'Henry years before Sam ever became involved in Honduran politics. Aside from inaccuracies like these, this is still a great show. It's absolutely hilarious and I always learn something new when I watch it.
pjv1
I have watched this show because I love history and love comedy, I was, however, sorely disappointed by the result... It is exactly what the title claims it to be, history for someone that failed their history classes due to being high or drunk and it is presented as such as if by an illiterate and extremely ineloquent teacher. Having only watched 2 episodes, I can not claim historical inaccuracies for as far as I'm concerned, but it's simply not funny. This show was clearly made for an audience that would urinate itself laughing with a badly timed fart-joke, but don't know enough about history in the first place to enjoy the (very) few deep, more clever jokes that are made.If you desire historical comedy sketches that are actually funny, I would recommend Horrible Histories rather than this dreadful excrement.
chipdfctoo
as my summary states, unfortunately on my own behalf... i can attest to the multitude of drunken states of our narrators. i am and always have been (at least of the comprehensible age) been "that drunk guy". the thing that makes me love this show so damn much, the drunker i get... the smarter i feel, the more i know, the absolute truth comes from deep within.i get a good giggle out of the naysayer that claims "oh it's staged", i might be a drunkard but i am not naive. sure enough the script is read in a relatively sober state, and drunken context is added. right up until "the i'm feelin' so good, it's bad" state of inebriation. i do not doubt for a second if a gentlemen showed up with a quality fifth of scotch, asked me to polish it off and then "read this" that i would more than likely spit out some quality comedy gold.this show, with the wonderful acting and pantomiming is without a doubt the funniest show on TV. it will only gain in greatness if, and when, it branches out into the international circuit of this amazing planet. just imagine the wonderful accents! cheers my friends, drinks up to a good evening.
GrislyBloodfeast
Derek Waters brings his hilarious web series to comedy central, with bigger production values and entertainers replacing historians as the drunken storytellers. The two episodes I've seen of Drunk History are some of the most hilarious and entertaining television I've ever seen. The premise is actors/writers/comedians get drunk and tell a story from history, and the scenes described and narrated are acted out. So far, my favorite was where Adam Scott played John Wilkes Booth in the recreation of the Lincoln assassination. Some recognizable names play some of the historical figures; Jack Black was great as Elvis, Dave Grohl as Elivs's lackey, Jonathan Ames, Adam Scott, and Will Forte as Junius, John Wilkes and Edwin Booth, and Fred Willard as 'Deep Throat' in the recreation of the Watergate scandal. The funniest part, to me, is the dialogue the drunken historians give the historical figures that the actors then lip sync. I could use a bit less of the storyteller's vomiting...though, I'm aware that usually goes over well with comedy central's young male demographic. This series has great potential, and I hope it will find the success it deserves.
