Appreciating Drunk History

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Regular readers of Kasterborous may remember that I mentioned the ChiqueGeeks a few months back, two girls who have made it their mission to watch every new episode of Who and commit their thoughts to video whilst getting blotto. In that article, I name-checked Funny Or Die’s Drunk History, which dealt with a far wider remit- world (mainly US) history- through the filter of some hapless drunkards attempting to relate some key event or another, with their take on proceedings re-enacted by the cream of American comedy.

Well, now it’s here.

The British version is slightly different in that the producers have replaced the everyday volunteers with a number of stand-up comedians, none of whom look able to stand up come the end, who have been plied with booze and let loose on centuries of human endeavour. Like the US version, their ramblings are re-enacted by a cast of UK comedy notables. So far, we’ve had Rebecca Front (who costarred in The Thick of It with Doctor Who Peter Capaldi) in Kerry Howard’s largely unrepeatable take on the early life of Queen Victoria, and Rob Beckett’s account of the courtship of Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves, performed by Mathew Horne and Marek Larwood. After the overheated The Tudors and the over-earnest Wolf Hall, I genuinely want to believe this version of events (‘Holborn (meaning Holbein)- I want you… to paint the **** out of her’).

Future editions promise Romesh Ranganathan on the discovery of Tutankhamun and Tom Rosenthal going face down in his pizza recounting the Great Fire of London. It’s on Monday nights at 10pm on Comedy Central. The Daily Mail hates it. That should be reason enough to watch it…

Chin chin!

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