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Drunk History
2013 - 2019 6.8 (88 votes) 6 Seasons
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Genres
Comedy Talk
Networks
Comedy Central
Created By
Derek Waters

Drunk History

Overview

Historical reenactments from A-list talent as told by inebriated storytellers. A unique take on the familiar and less familiar people and events from America’s great past as great moments in history are retold with unforgettable results.

Key Crew

Creator: Jeremy Konner

Top Cast

Derek Waters
Derek Waters

Himself - Host / Various Characters

Seasons

Season 0 (2007)

No overview available.

10 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Drunk History Vol. 1 - Feat. Michael Cera
2007-08-06

On August 6th 2007, Mark Gagliardi drank a bottle of scotch and then discussed a famous historical event. That night history was made. Drunk History.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 2: Drunk History Vol. 2 - Feat. Jack Black
2008-02-27

Eric Falconer, a Benjamin Franklin expert, reveals his controversial theory about the discovery of electricity. Witness history told as it's never been told before...Drunk.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 3: Drunk History Vol. 2.5 - Feat. Jack Black
2008-03-02

Later that November night Eric Falconer, the Franklin expert, drank more vodka and then discussed this historical event...

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 4: Drunk History Vol. 3 - Feat. Danny McBride
2008-07-12

Late one night Jen Kirkman drank a bottle and a half of wine and then discussed the gripping tale of Oney Judge, George and Martha Washington's favourite slave.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 5: Drunk History Vol. 4 - Feat. Paul Schneider
2008-10-20

See the drunken tale of William Henry Harrison, the ninth U.S President, who was sixty eight years old when he was elected.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 6: Drunk History Vol. 5 - Feat. Will Ferrell, Don Cheadle & Zooey Deschanel
2010-05-05

Jen Kirkman has two bottles of wine and tells us the story of how the friendship of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass overcame the slavery movement and the racism that existed in their day.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 7: Drunk History Vol. 6 - Feat. John C. Reilly & Crispin Glover
2010-05-05

Late one night Duncan Trussell had a six pack of beer and a bottle of absinthe and sat down to tell us about the amazing story of Nikola Tesla, the father of western technology, who sailed to America to meet Thomas Edison and work for him.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 8: Drunk History Christmas - Feat. Ryan Gosling, Jim Carrey & Eva Mendes
2011-12-20

A very special Drunk History Christmas.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 9: Election Special
2016-11-06

Host Derek Waters and fan favorite Steve Berg relive the best stories about presidents and elections, including Abraham Lincoln's law career and the contentious campaign between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 10: Drunk History Christmas Special
2017-11-28

'Tis the season to learn about history's finest Yuletide stories, from George Washington crossing the Delaware to Charles Dickens's creation of modern-day Christmas, with guest stars Ken Marino, Rob Corddry and Colin Hanks.

Runtime: 15 min
Season 1 poster
Season 1 (2013)

No overview available.

8 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Washington D.C.
2013-07-09

Woodward and Bernstein blow open the Watergate scandal, actors/brothers Edwin and John Wilkes Booth engage in a tragic feud and Elvis crashes The White House to meet President Richard Nixon.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 2: Chicago
2013-07-16

Al Capone is done in by an easily solved problem, Abraham Lincoln catches a break and police battle with protesters during the Haymarket Riot of 1886.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 3: Atlanta
2013-07-23

John Pemberton invents Coca-Cola (from wine and cocaine!), the F.B.I tries to take down Martin Luther King Jr. and Stetson Kennedy infiltrates the Klu Klux Klan.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 4: Boston
2013-07-30

Mary Dyer wages war with the Puritan establishment, two cunning thieves pull off a $500 million art heist and the most notorious arsonist in New England history is revealed.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 5: San Francisco
2013-08-06

Patty Hearst gets kidnapped and brainwashed, Mark Twain flees the city in fear (and finds his unlikely first hit story) and Mary Ellen Pleasant supports abolitionists with her business earnings.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 6: Detroit
2013-08-13

The Kellogg brothers litigate over their famous surname (and the newly profitable discovery of corn flakes), Ralph Nader goes to war with General Motors and Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle go from best friends to bitter rivals.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 7: Nashville
2013-08-20

Dolly Parton has to leave the man who made her famous, competing lawyers clash in the Scopes Monkey Trial, and Lewis and Clark explore the dangerous West.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 8: The Wild West
2013-08-27

Teddy Roosevelt makes a name for himself, hold-outs fight to the bitter end at The Alamo, and Billy the Kid goes on the run from lawman Pat Garrett.

Runtime: 22 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (2014)

No overview available.

10 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Montgomery, AL
2014-07-01

Scientist Percy Julian overcomes racial barriers, Claudette Colvin refuses to give up her bus seat months before Rosa Parks's famous protest, and Joe Louis fights German boxer Max Schmeling. Featuring Jordan Peele, Terry Crews and "Weird Al" Yankovic.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 2: New York City
2014-07-08

The U.S. reluctantly accepts the Statue of Liberty, Sybil Ludington goes on an epic ride to warn of a British attack, and journalist Nellie Bly infiltrates a corrupt mental institution. Featuring Laura Dern, Taran Killam, Juno Temple and Matt Walsh.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 3: American Music
2014-07-15

Alan Freed becomes one of the first radio DJs to broadcast rock 'n' roll, Kris Kristofferson gets his big break with some help from his hero, Johnny Cash, and Sylvia Robinson creates The Sugarhill Gang. Featuring Johnny Knoxville, Jack McBrayer and Retta.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 4: Baltimore
2014-07-22

Abraham Lincoln tries to avoid assassination on the way to his inauguration, Francis Scott Key writes "The Star-Spangled Banner," and Edgar Allan Poe feuds with Rufus Griswold. Featuring Charlie Day, Adrianne Palicki, Jesse Plemons and Jason Ritter.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 5: Charleston
2014-07-29

Charles Sumner gets caned on the Senate floor, Judge J. Waties Waring helps to end segregation, and a slave named Robert Smalls commandeers a Confederate warship. Featuring Patton Oswalt, Johnny Knoxville, Busy Philipps and Brandon T. Jackson.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 6: Hollywood
2014-08-05

Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" angers publisher William Randolph Hearst; animator Ub Iwerks helps Walt Disney create Mickey Mouse; Nancy Reagan urges her husband to get into politics.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 7: Hawaii
2014-08-12

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 8: Philadelphia
2014-08-19

Baron von Steuben whips Washington's army into shape, longtime friends John Adams and Thomas Jefferson break ties, and Benedict Arnold becomes a British spy.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 9: Sports Heroes
2014-08-26

Jim Thorpe dominates the 1912 Olympics, Babe Didrikson founds the LPGA, and Jim Abbott becomes a great pitcher despite being born with one hand.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 10: First Ladies
2014-09-02

Frances Cleveland uses her public image for good, Edith Wilson acts as president after her husband has a stroke, and Dolley Madison saves American artifacts from destruction.

Runtime: 22 min
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Season 3 (2015)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: New Jersey
2015-09-01

Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope become bitter rivals while creating Paleontology and Penzias & Wilson discover the sound of The Big Bang.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 2: Miami
2015-09-08

Actor Clark Gable joins the U.S Air Force during World War II, Ponce de León quarrels with Diego Colón (son of Christopher Columbus) in the 1500s and Griselda Blanco takes over the cocaine trade in Miami in the 1970s.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 3: New Orleans
2015-09-15

Pirate Jean Laffite helps Andrew Jackson defeat the British during the War of 1812, Sam Zemurray becomes a banana kingpin and Louis Armstrong becomes a jazz legend.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 4: Spies
2015-09-22

Harriet Tubman provides military intel to the Union Army, Virginia Hall spies in France during World War II (and becomes the first woman in the C.I.A) and children's books' author Roald Dahl serves as a debonair British spy.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 5: Cleveland
2015-09-29

Wayne Wheeler leads the Prohibition charge, Dorothy Fuldheim paves the way for women in journalism, and Muhammad Ali refuses to fight in the Vietnam War.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 6: Games
2015-10-06

Milton Bradley jumpstarts the board game industry, Roger Sharpe fights for pinball legalization in 1970s New York City, and Bobby Fischer becomes the World Chess Champion.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 7: Oklahoma
2015-10-13

Kentucky Daisy claims land for the ladies, Gordon Cooper goes on a pioneering space mission, and former slave Bass Reeves becomes the inspiration for the Lone Ranger.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 8: Journalism
2015-10-20

Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland race each other around the world, New York's newsboys go on strike, and a political cartoonist exposes a corrupt politician.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 9: Los Angeles
2015-10-27

The LAPD is formed to stop the city from devolving into chaos, Rin Tin Tin becomes a global superstar, and William Mulholland figures out how to bring water to Los Angeles.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 10: New Mexico
2015-11-03

Popé leads the Pueblo Revolt against Spanish colonizers in 1680, Boy Scouts cofounder Ernest Thompson Seton tracks a wolf, the true story of the Roswell UFO conspiracy is revealed.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 11: Inventors
2015-11-10

Alexander Graham Bell beats Elisha Gray to the patent office for the telephone, Thomas Edison endeavors to launch a filmmaking monopoly.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 12: Las Vegas
2015-11-17

Bugsy Siegel bets his life on a Las Vegas casino, while the Moulin Rouge breaks the color barrier, Sin City's origins are a popularity contest for J.T. McWilliams and William Clark.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 13: Space
2015-11-24

Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan fall in love over a golden record, Wernher Von Braun pioneers rocket science, and Alexey Leonov becomes the first man to float in space.

Runtime: 22 min
Season 4 poster
Season 4 (2016)

No overview available.

10 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Great Escapes
2016-09-27

LSD pioneer Timothy Leary escapes from prison; a sailor travels to Devil's Island to perform a daring rescue; a baker's whiskey habit keeps him calm aboard the Titanic.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 2: Legends
2016-10-04

Sam Patch becomes America's first daredevil; Marilyn Monroe and Ella Fitzgerald form a lasting friendship; Buster Keaton takes his talents to the big screen.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 3: Bar Fights
2016-10-11

Carry A. Nation vandalizes bars; Andrew Jackson gets involved in a shootout; Marsha P. Johnson stands up for LGBT rights.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 4: The Roosevelts
2016-10-18

Teddy Roosevelt revolutionizes football; Winston Churchill pays FDR a visit at Christmastime; Eleanor Roosevelt becomes friends with a female Soviet sniper.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 5: Scoundrels
2016-10-25

Charles Ponzi hires a publicist to improve his image; Sadie the Goat becomes a notorious Hudson River pirate; a con man poses as a Scottish royal.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 6: Siblings
2016-11-01

Katharine Wright helps her brothers build an airplane; the Kopp sisters fight to protect their home; the Fox sisters stoke the spiritualism craze.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 7: Landmarks
2016-11-15

Emily Roebling oversees construction of the Brooklyn Bridge; con-man Victor Lustig sells the Eiffel Tower; Shakespeare steals the Globe Theatre.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 8: Food
2016-11-22

Mayor La Guardia fights the mob over artichokes; Julia Child meets the love of her life while working as a spy; a molasses flood devastates Boston.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 9: Hamilton
2016-11-29

Lin-Manuel Miranda tells the story of Alexander Hamilton, his nemesis Aaron Burr and their infamous duel to the death.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 10: Shitshows
2016-12-06

Runtime: 22 min
Season 5 poster
Season 5 (2018)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Heroines
2018-01-23

Deborah Sampson goes undercover as a man to fight in the Revolutionary War, Rose Valland rescues art from the Nazis, and Clara Barton becomes "the angel of the battlefield."

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 2: Dangerous Minds
2018-01-30

Occultist and rocket scientist Jack Parsons works on his "sex magick," W.C. Minor helps write the Oxford English Dictionary, and Rasputin lives the high life in Russia.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 3: Game Changers
2018-02-06

Hip hop is born in 1970s New York City, Berry Gordy founds the massively influential Motown Records, and Nichelle Nichols brings the civil rights movement to space.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 4: Sex
2018-02-13

Margaret Sanger is a pioneering advocate for birth control, the Kinseys create a scale for sexuality, and journalist Gloria Steinem goes undercover in a Playboy Club.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 5: Civil Rights
2018-02-20

British suffragettes learn jiu-jitsu, Gwendolyn Sanders ignites the Birmingham Crusade, and Judy Heumann leads a sit-in for people with disabilities.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 6: Underdogs
2018-02-27

Fred Rogers fights for public television in front of Congress, journalist Ida Tarbell takes on John D. Rockefeller, and Maya Lin designs the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 7: Drunk Mystery
2018-03-06

Mystery writer Agatha Christie vanishes, a man known as D.B. Cooper successfully hijacks a plane, and a series of anonymous letters haunts the town of Circleville, OH.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 8: World War II
2018-06-19

A group of artists known as the Ghost Army trick German troops, a resistance movement grows within Japanese internment camps, and Adolf Hitler's nephew fights for the U.S.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 9: Heists
2018-06-26

An Italian handyman steals the “Mona Lisa,” the “Santa bandits” rob a bank in Texas, and Mossad agents capture a Nazi general who had escaped to Argentina.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 10: Animals
2018-07-03

A lawyer defends the lives of rats in court, Henry Bergh establishes the ASPCA, and a horse that can solve math problems leads to advances in the field of psychology.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 11: The Middle Ages
2018-07-10

Joan of Arc leads the French during the Hundred Years' War, Mongol leader Genghis Khan rises to power, AND Mansa Musa brings thousands of people on a pilgrimage to Mecca.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 12: Death
2018-07-17

Robert E. Lee's estate becomes a burial ground for Union soldiers, a gang of counterfeiters attempt to kidnap Abraham Lincoln's body, and an embalmed bandit makes his way around the country.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 13: Halloween
2018-07-24

A victim of the Salem witch trials curses the town, one woman changes the way people celebrate Halloween, and Vlad the Impaler inspires the classic horror story Dracula.

Runtime: 22 min
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Season 6 (2019)

This season of Drunk History tackles such far-ranging topics as Martha “The Mouth” Mitchell's role in Watergate, Hedy Lamarr’s invention of frequency hopping and the story behind the creation of “Frankenstein.”

16 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Are You Afraid of the Drunk?
2019-01-15

Will Ferrell and Seth Rogen star in this episode about how teenage writer Mary Shelley created her legendary novel, “Frankenstein.”

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 2: National Parks
2019-01-22

John Muir convinces Teddy Roosevelt to preserve Yosemite, journalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas fights to protect the Everglades, and Native American activists occupy Alcatraz.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 3: Baseball
2019-01-29

Moses Fleetwood Walker faces racism in the 19th century MLB, the Chicago White Sox throw the World Series, and the Callaghan sisters inspire the film "A League of Their Own."

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 4: Trailblazers
2019-02-05

Bessie Coleman is America’s first black woman pilot, and the students of the Little Rock Nine integrate a high school following the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 5: Love
2019-02-12

A student tunnels beneath the Berlin Wall, Edie Windsor topples the Defense of Marriage Act, and John Wojtowicz robs a bank to pay for his wife’s gender reassignment surgery.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 6: Drugs
2019-02-19

John F. Kennedy’s doctor administers him meth for his back pain, and Dr. John C. Lilly takes LSD while studying the intelligence of dolphins.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 7: Femme Fatales
2019-02-26

Journalist Maurine Dallas Watkins writes a play about Chicago’s infamous Murderesses’ Row, and Mata Hari goes from exotic dancer to double agent during World War I.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 8: Drunk Mystery II
2019-03-05

Colonial gossip columnist James Callender winds up dead, a Hollywood producer dies on a celebrity-filled yacht, and Ken McElroy is murdered after terrorizing a Missouri town.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 9: Believe It Or Not
2019-03-12

Larry Walters pilots a balloon-suspended lawn chair, Phineas Gage survives an iron rod to the brain, and the Greenbrier Ghost’s testimony is used in court.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 10: Legacies
2019-06-25

Lead Belly records songs with John Lomax that change the face of music, John Lennon and Yoko Ono almost get deported, and Sam Cooke writes “A Change Is Gonna Come.”

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 11: Fame
2019-07-02

Hedy Lamarr designs the first modern airplane wing, Eartha Kitt's activism provokes the ire of Lady Bird Johnson, and Alexis Pulaski's poodle becomes a huge star.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 12: Good Samaritans
2019-07-09

Forest service ranger Ed Pulaski saves 40 men from a forest fire, and Ted Patrick rescues teenagers from the psychological grip of the Children of God cult.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 13: Whistleblowers
2019-07-16

Martha Mitchell leaks the Watergate scandal to the press before Deep Throat does, and the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI stages an epic break-in.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 14: Behind Enemy Lines
2019-07-23

Marina Raskova forms an all-women air force regiment to fight Nazis in World War II, and smuggler James J. Andrews hijacks a Confederate train for the Union.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 15: S.O.S.
2019-07-30

Navy officer Douglas Hegdahl outwits his captors when he’s taken as a POW in North Vietnam, and Florence Nightingale revolutionizes the field of nursing.

Runtime: 22 min
Episode 16: Bad Blood
2019-08-06

Mary Mallon spreads typhoid fever wherever she goes, and Cleopatra’s younger sister Arsinoe schemes her way in and out of power in Ancient Egypt.

Runtime: 22 min

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