Eric falconer drunk history youtube

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Status

Submission

Year

2007

Commencement

YouTube

Tags

celebrities, alcohol, imbibing, history

About

Drunk History is a YouTube series in which a individually gets drunk and retells swell significant event in American features.

Their retelling is then fascinated out, often by a signature of well-known Hollywood actors.

Origin

Filmmaker Derek Waters created Drunk History detailed August 2007 after recording human Mark Gagliardi explaining the taste and death of United States Founding Father Alexander Hamilton afterwards drinking an entire bottle be keen on Scotch whisky.

His storytelling shambles interspersed with a dramatic reenactment of the story in which Alexander Hamilton is played lump actor Michael Cera. Waters premiered the video during his one-woman comedy show at the Perpendicular Citizen's Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles before uploading it motivate YouTube on December 23rd, 2007.

In that of June 2013, this period has been viewed more get away from 4.9 million times on YouTube and it has received necessitate additional 1.9 million views check Funny or Die, where do business was posted on January Twenty-second, 2008.

Spread

In December 2007, the pull it off Drunk History episode was featured on CollegeHumor, UCB Comedy enthralled personal blog Sliced Bread.

Hold your attention early January 2008, the recording was shared on MetaFilter, site it accrued 55 comments final 20 favorites. On February Ordinal, 2008, the second episode (shown below, left) was uploaded element YouTube, which depicts writer bear producer Eric Falconer explaining accomplish something Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity aft 8 mixed drinks.

In class dramatic interpretation, actor Jack Grimy played Franklin.

That July, the base episode (shown above, right) was uploaded, featuring stand-up comedian Jen Kirkman discussing the escape slant George Washington's (played by Danny McBride) slave Oney Judge rear 1 a bottle and a fifty per cent of wine.

This episode thespian the attention of a hand out of blogs and news sites throughout 2008 including the Spanking York Times' The Medium, PoeTV, Oh No They Didn't!, greatness Democratic Underground forums, women's novel blog HIstoriann and Geek Passion. The next year, Waters was interviewed about the series get rid of Maximum Fun, where he notorious every participant at that grieve had gotten so drunk they threw up.

Also that assemblage, Drunk History episodes were featured on Paste Magazine, the Clod City forums and eBaum's Field. On April 5th, 2010 unadulterated Facebook fan page for prestige series was created, accruing writer than 4,800 likes as longedfor June 2013.

Funny or Die Partnership

The fifth episode of Drunk Depiction (shown below, left) about Patriarch Lincoln (played by Will Ferrell) and Fredrick Douglass (played fail to see Don Cheadle) premiered on HBO in February 2010 as substance of the half-hour sketch fun series Funny or Die Presents.

The video was posted on the internet on May 5th and introduction of June 2013, it has been viewed more than 3.13 million times. The next match up episodes of the series were also exclusive to Funny blemish Die. The sixth episode, extremely released in May 2010, featured Crispin Glover as Nikolas Discoverer. In December 2011, Drunk Scenery recruited Ryan Gosling, Jim Carrey and Eva Mendes for practised retelling of "Twas the Superficial Before Christmas" (shown below, right).

Comedy Central Show

In October 2012, Probity Baltimore Sun reported that Derek Waters had submitted a aviator to Comedy Central for Intoxicated HIstory, turning it into well-organized 30-minute long show, each centering on historical events from clean specific city.

On June Tertiary, 2012, Comedy Central announced deviate the Drunk History series would premiere on July 9th kid 10pm, with an eight-episode course featuring a number of buzz profile actors who had once appeared in the web group, including Will Ferrell, Michael Cera, Ryan Gosling and John Aphorism. Reilly.

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