Sundance: Drunk History

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2010

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Derek Waters and Jeremy Konner are the creator and director of Drunk History, a series of shorts in which comedians get very, very drunk, then re-tell their favorite stories from history. The stories are re-enacted, with drunken narration and dialogue, by actors like Don Cheadle and Jack Black. It won the short film prize at Sundance.

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0:00.0	I'm Kira from Cotonin, New York.
0:01.8	I'm Jan from Oakland.
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0:27.4	It's the Sound of Young America.
0:28.8	I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:30.1	This week's show comes to you live on tape
0:31.9	from the Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah.
0:34.7	My guests are Derek Waters and Jeremy Conner.
0:37.6	They're the creators of Drunk History.
0:40.2	This is what they do.
0:41.4	They take one of their comedy buddies
0:43.8	and they get them super, super wasted.
0:46.8	And then they have them tell a story from history
0:49.6	that they're really passionate about.
0:51.5	Then they edit together the footage of their super drunk
0:54.6	buddy and surprisingly famous actors
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