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Princess Sparkle

Princess Sparkle

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So, this is from last year, but I thought it might be interesting to bring up before the new season starts: Tommy Blancha's girlfriend (he did the Ralph Nader story and the Al Capone story) wrote an article last year about her experience with them filming.  She answers some questions in the article and in the comments about how Tommy decided what story to pick (sounds like they are given story options, then the narrator picks one) and how drunk he actually got (very it sounds like), as well as some other tidbits.  I thought it was pretty interesting, so just thought I'd share.

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Rinaldo

Rinaldo

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I just "discovered" the show today (Tara's piece about Jordan Peele hooked me). Season 1 is easy to catch up on (Amazon Prime for one), but where can I see complete episodes of Season 2 -- in particular the Montgomery episode? Comedy Central offers only a compilation of three excerpts, as far as I can see.

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JTMacc99

JTMacc99

The comments about that NPR story are funnier than the story itself.  It quickly devolved with a number of posters upset that the show celebrates alcoholism.  With the obligatory racial comments sprinkled in for effect. 

Curse you for making me interested enough to go read internet comments. Now I'm all moron-riled up. I hate it when that happens.

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ALenore

ALenore

From first  above-linked article on renewal:

Through the first four episodes of its second season, ratings for “Drunk History” are up +26% among Adults 18-49 vs. season one and +17% among total viewers.

 

I think this is great! I wonder why the ratings are up so much?  I do think there was more publicity for this season than for the first, I saw articles in the New York Times, NPR and a few other places. 

zxy556575

zxy556575

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It may be one of those shows that people hear about but just kind of pfft it away because it sounds so ridiculous: "It can't possibly involve drunk people, can it?" You kind of have to watch the get the joke, so maybe there's enough of a groundswell of reviews and word-of-mouth to get people to tune in now.

 

That was my experience, anyway, which I'll cheerfully extrapolate to the rest of the populace.

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ALenore

ALenore

It may be one of those shows that people hear about but just kind of pfft it away because it sounds so ridiculous: "It can't possibly involve drunk people, can it?"

 

 

That was basically my experience too,  but I started watching a couple of episodes into Season 1.  When I first heard about it,  I thought they just made up fictional history, and had drunk actors.  I didn't realize they recreated interesting real historical events, and only the narrators were drunk.   

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Starchild

Starchild

Comedy Central UK have ordered a pilot for a remake of the series. I'd rather they show the US version, I guess this doesn't rule that out: http://www.tvwise.co.uk/2014/09/comedy-central-pilots-uk-version-drunk-history/

As a Canadian who has just binge-watched this show to catch up, I have to disagree. US history is pretty sparse compared to the UK (and Canada? fuhgeddaboudit!) The vast history that the UK version has to draw on, including early Roman times, gives an original UK version of the show so much more source material than would be available just re-running the US series. And the talent pool available. Wow. I hope to see it broadcast on Canadian TV someday too.

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possibilities

possibilities

I think it makes sense for a UK show to feature UK history. There are certainly ways that UK and US history overlap, but the US show doesn't focus on the UK perspective, so it seems to me to be a bit unfair to expect the UK version to focus on US cities and US stories.

 

I think also that since a good deal of the humor in the show is from the skewed/drunk retelling as it contrasts with the stuffy way the same stories are usually told, that angle of amusement would be lost (or at least reduced) if the people watching don't know the sober version of the story to begin with. So the show remakes need to tell stories their local viewers are already familiar with, to maximize the effect.

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ApathyMonger

ApathyMonger

I think it makes sense for a UK show to feature UK history. There are certainly ways that UK and US history overlap, but the US show doesn't focus on the UK perspective, so it seems to me to be a bit unfair to expect the UK version to focus on US cities and US stories.

 

I don't have a problem with them doing a UK version of the show; I just wish they allowed people to watch the US version too. They have a handful of clips on their website, but that's it.

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