Mix Some Old Fashioneds For Drunk History

Maybe you saw the title Drunk History and thought, "I find yammering drunks tiresome; why would I be interested in a comedy show about them?" Friends, I get it. I don't drink; I definitely shouldn't be in the demo for this show. But I love Drunk History and I'm thrilled for all of us that it returns tonight.

Here's how it works: series creator Derek Waters finds an amateur historian (these are generally comedy performers or writers, but not always), arranges for him or her to tell a story from history, and then gets him or her real drunk before the retelling begins. When this encounter is over, Waters hires comedy actors to perform the story as the drunk historian told it. The results look like this.

If you don't think extremely straight-faced lip-syncing to drunk people's confused babbling is funny, this probably isn't the show for you. But on the other hand, how can you not find that funny?! We just saw Winona Ryder being a very tough politician for six hours on Show Me A Hero; now here she is as a pottymouthed Quaker! It's brilliant!

Tonight's Season 3 premiere features true stories that took place in New Jersey (including one from friend of the site Tess Lynch, whose interview with our Nick Rheinwald-Jones will go up tonight after the episode airs). The last comes to us from past Drunk History storyteller Jenny Slate; here's a preview.

Future re-enactors this season include Sam Rockwell as Bugsy Siegel; Octavia Spencer as Harriet Tubman; Josh Hartnett as Clark Gable; and Will Ferrell as Roald Dahl, among many others. It's extremely silly fun for the sober and drunk alike. Pour yourself a cocktail or a mocktail and settle in for a ridiculous half-hour.

Drunk History airs Tuesdays at 10:30 PM ET on Comedy Central.