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Comedy Central Picks Up 'Drunk History' to Series and Renews 'Workaholics' for Two More Seasons

by | January 7th, 2013

Comedy Central is turning Drunk History, Funny or Die's popular series of web videos, into a full-on TV series. The cable network has ordered an eight-episode first season to be produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, making it Funny or Die's second TV show on the air after Fuse's Billy on the Street. For the uninitiated, Drunk History features intoxicated people recounting historical events while big famous actors reenact them. A Drunk History short that starred Will Ferrell as Abraham Lincoln and Don Cheadle as Frederick Douglass won Best American Short Film at the Sundance Festival in 2010. Jim Carrey, Ryan Gosling, Jack Black, Zooey Deschanel, John C. Reilly, Michael Cera, and Danny McBride [...]

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Funny or Die's "Drunk History" Is Potentially Coming to Comedy Central

by | April 5th, 2012

Comedy Central has ordered up a presentation on Funny or Die's "Drunk History" series, which is the first step towards ordering up a pilot and then, eventually, a series. But unlike most presentation orders, this one has Will Ferrell and Adam McKay behind it, which gives it far better odds than orders doled out to unknowns. Called Drunk History Across America, it sounds like it'll combine the premise of the web videos we know and love (drunk narrators sloppily retelling history, with famous people reenacting it) with more of a travel show-like element. Deadline reports that it'll also feature "interviews with the city’s locals who will drunkenly narrate [...]

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'Twas the Night Before Drunk History, And Jim Carrey Was Santa Claus

by | December 20th, 2011

Drunk History is back! And this time it comes with a Christmas poem in its jolly sack. Jim Carrey plays Santa Claus, with his cheeks like jelly and a bowl full of …jelly. Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes also star, as Allan McLeod leads us through a holiday classic despite the fact that he "drank since 2:30 today." [Chewing noise.]

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