Frankly, I don't care if these people are drunk or sober playing drunk, this is a today's concept for History to get through.
This is all the new generation has. They're not going in droves going to look at the History Channel documentaries, or any History documentary at all. They may not have History Teachers like I had that went all out, dressed up, took you to places -- gave you an experience about History beside the book. However, this is fun, entertaining and...they'll learn something in 30 minutes about History. And maybe take a minute to Google it to learn more.
The History is basically correct. The entertaining part are the actors retelling it from the drunken teller. I have laughed at each and every episode. It's like your drunk uncle, being in a bar or a barbershop with the drunk who knows everything sitting in a corner and chipping in when you didn't ask him/her. But later you find out, they were ....correct! So if they're not really 'drunk', so what, it's a hoot.
I recently watched one that I am so glad they did as it was on Cleopatra and her sister Arsinoe IV. I remember 'back in the day in elementary school the watered down version of the two, but it was great they chose this. Aubrey Plaza was Cleopatra, and was hilarious (as she has been in many of these Drunk History skits). This story was a crazy and devious as anything happening in government today -and that is why it's so important to study History, all of it. It's just more entertaining coming from someone who is lit-up and telling it, than your straitlaced teacher who is probably bored on the 100th telling of it. Let's be real, you'd probably retain more of it and talk more of it as it came from ...a drunk.
And that is the beauty of the program. Funny and educational.
I know we are never going to go back to
This is all the new generation has. They're not going in droves going to look at the History Channel documentaries, or any History documentary at all. They may not have History Teachers like I had that went all out, dressed up, took you to places -- gave you an experience about History beside the book. However, this is fun, entertaining and...they'll learn something in 30 minutes about History. And maybe take a minute to Google it to learn more.
The History is basically correct. The entertaining part are the actors retelling it from the drunken teller. I have laughed at each and every episode. It's like your drunk uncle, being in a bar or a barbershop with the drunk who knows everything sitting in a corner and chipping in when you didn't ask him/her. But later you find out, they were ....correct! So if they're not really 'drunk', so what, it's a hoot.
I recently watched one that I am so glad they did as it was on Cleopatra and her sister Arsinoe IV. I remember 'back in the day in elementary school the watered down version of the two, but it was great they chose this. Aubrey Plaza was Cleopatra, and was hilarious (as she has been in many of these Drunk History skits). This story was a crazy and devious as anything happening in government today -and that is why it's so important to study History, all of it. It's just more entertaining coming from someone who is lit-up and telling it, than your straitlaced teacher who is probably bored on the 100th telling of it. Let's be real, you'd probably retain more of it and talk more of it as it came from ...a drunk.
And that is the beauty of the program. Funny and educational.
I know we are never going to go back to