Drunk History Season 2: The Stars And Stories We Want To See
It will be hard to top Casey Wilson as Dolly Parton. But these stories and performers would be pretty great, too.
Last night, Comedy Central's Drunk History triumphantly capped its freshman season with a trio of stories set in the Wild West. (MVP for the episode: Enlightened star Timm Sharp, nicely underplaying his role as Billy the Kid.) And now that we know which stories and actors have not already been featured on the show, the time is right for us to make our own wish list for Season 2.
Michael McKean
Playing: Thomas Jefferson.
In The Story Of: The Louisiana Purchase.
Joined By: Brent Weinbach as James Madison; Jonathan Slavin as John Randolph.
Six Degrees Of Drunk History: He played Big Dave on Happy Endings, which starred Casey Wilson, who played Dolly Parton in "Nashville."
Jordan Peele
Playing: Nat Turner.
In The Story Of: Nat Turner's slave rebellion.
Joined By: Jim O'Heir as General Eppes; Brian Posehn as Benjamin Phipps, the farmer who discovered Turner and led to his arrest.
Six Degrees Of Drunk History: He starred on Childrens Hospital with Ken Marino ("Detroit") and Rob Huebel ("The Wild West").
Garfunkel & Oates (Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome)
Playing: Mary Hosford and Mary Fletcher Kellogg.
In The Story Of: Oberlin College's admission of female students.
Joined By: Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair as Elizabeth Smith Prall and Caroline Mary Rudd, who along with Hosford and Kellogg were the first four women admitted to Oberlin (the first college in the U.S. to admit female students).
Six Degrees Of Drunk History: Micucci has appeared on NTSF: SD: SUV:: with Martin Starr, who appeared in "Boston"; Lindhome played opposite the above-named Sharp on Enlightened.
Lake Bell
Playing: Clara Barton.
In The Story Of: The founding of the American Red Cross.
Joined By: Don Cheadle reprising his Drunk History (web series) role as Frederick Douglass; Ben Schwartz as Barton's longtime paramour John J. Elwell.
Six Degrees Of Drunk History: Another Childrens Hospital star.
Jon Hamm
Playing: William Ruckelshaus.
In The Story Of: The creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Joined By: Bob Odenkirk, returning to play Richard Nixon (as seen in "Washington, D.C."); Adam Pally as Senator Henry M. Jackson.
Six Degrees Of Drunk History: In addition to being connected through Childrens Hospital like half this list, there's also his Greatest Event In Television History and Friends With Kids co-star Adam Scott ("Washington, D.C."), 30 Rock co-star Jack McBrayer ("Nashville"), Metalocalypse creator Tommy Blacha ("Detroit"), SNL co-star Bill Hader ("Atlanta"), Friends With Kids and Bridesmaids co-star Kristen Wiig ("San Francisco")....
For Careers Week we ask:
What are probably the biggest cons of working with the drunkards on Drunk History?
- shooting at night
- holding a boom over a story that takes hours to kind of tell
- getting sent on a booze run
- not getting to drink when the people on camera are drinking
- puke