Drunk History Makes A Case For Jordan Peele To Move Exclusively Into Slurry Lip-Sync

Few performers have risen from unknown to kind-of-known to "is there anything he can't do?" faster than Jordan Peele has: I feel like he moved through all three of those stages in the span of about four years...and he's so good that I already enumerated them like a month ago in a post praising his work -- along with that of his comedy partner Keegan-Michael Key -- in the very dry dramedy Fargo. And in the Season 2 premiere of Drunk History, he shows off his expertise of another very narrow, very specific field of comedy: lip-sync!

As I already wrote about Jenny Slate's Coca-Cola story last season, the re-enactors' lip-sync ability is something that, ideally, you shouldn't notice, because it's so seamless. Which is why it's a bummer when, for example, the great James Adomian guests later this season and really overdoes it. (Forgive my screener privilege, but also, set your DVR! It's still good in spite of his almost literal scenery chewing.)

But why take my word for it? Here's Allan McLeod's version of the Percy Julian story, as performed by Peele.

Peele is such a good actor that he can completely embody Julian's gravitas, which only makes it funnier when the speech he has to mouth along to describes him having sex with a bunch of Viennese ladies and telling people to fuck off. It's six minutes of perfection, Jordan Peele is a genius, and I will love him forever.