Chris Higgins
Drunk History: Fredrick Douglass
by Chris Higgins - May 14, 2010 - 2:14 PM

If you haven’t seen Drunk History, get ready to spend this afternoon laughing yourself into a stupor. How it works: the producers get somebody super-drunk, then have that person tell a story from history. This story is usually completely inaccurate, but hilarious due to the aforementioned super-drunkenness. Then the producers get actors (often surprisingly high-caliber actors) to reenact the story word-for-word as told by the super-drunk person. The rest is Drunk History.

In this episode, the story (sort of) of Fredrick Douglass. Some representative dialog:

Lincoln: “What do I do about slavery? What do I do about the black population?” Douglass: “Whoo! Well, okay, Abraham Lincoln, I am Fredrick Douglass, I am a former slave who–” And Lincoln’s like “Shh. I get it. I know. I know who you are. It’s been explained to me. I’ve been following your career forever. Be quiet. I’m into it. Let’s talk.”

Featured in this video: Will Ferrell, Don Cheadle, Zooey Deschanel, and Jen Kirkman narrating.

Warning: there are a few f-bombs in this video. Also a bit of drunkenness.

If you’re into this, check out more Drunk History. For more on Douglass, check out this Wikipedia entry, which corroborates parts of Kirkman’s story.

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Comments (7)
  1. awesome

  2. Damn I want to watch this so bad.
    Stupid job work filters.

  3. HAHAHAHAHA!!! holy crap, posting this now. i’m unfriending anybody who doesn’t watch it.

  4. I like the very first one featuring Mark Gagliardi (who works with me at a very famous theme park in Anaheim).

  5. this is the funniest thing.

    i wish they taught it this way in school.

  6. My favorite drunk history is the William Henry Harrison one. “And then William Henry Harrison decided he was going to do all the grocery shopping for the white house”

  7. Just now getting around to watching it… and it’s hilarious!

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