What a composition! I don't know how Derek Waters' Drunk History operates but I've always loved the results, and following on from yesterday's story of the brothers Booth here's more: I never knew, for example, that a century before before Michael Palin, two nineteenth-century journalists, Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland, simultaneously beat Phileas Fogg's circumnavigation of the world by over a week unaware they were racing each other because they were travelling in opposite directions...
Or that Rosa Parks' bus protest was actually an attempt to recreate the earlier arrest of Claudette Colvin, whom the NAACP had considered too young and dark-skinned to be the face of an anti-segregation movement (although I would have also learnt this later from Paul Sinha's History Revision, but not Doctor Who)...
Or that the Lone Ranger was real, and also black...
Or that the film Dog Day Afternoon paid for the surgery that the bank heist it depicted failed to, or that the perps portrayed in it by Al Pacino and John Cazale were already huge fans of The Godfather...
Or that the "Scopes Monkey Trial" was a publicity stunt designed to help the Depression-hit economy of Dayton, Tennessee...
Or, finally, anything about Margaret Howe Lovatt and John Lilly's experiments into LSD and wanking off dolphins. (Okay, that's where I've seen Duncan Trussell before. If you've seen his cartoon The Midnight Gospel on Netflix, this explains quite a bit.)
(Here's a little about how the show operates. I know there's a British version too now but without someone there to tell the story too, something seems out. Also, are British comedians not allowed to get as drunk?)
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