mike | 20 Oct 2011 | 651 Views | 2 Likes | 0 Dislikes

I Love YouTube: Drunk Experts

The great vaudevillian tradition of the drunk comic has, like all good things, come to an end, and a good while ago too. Call it changing tastes, call it a growing sense of sniffing moral rectitude or a transformation of the public perception of alcoholism from "lovable charming drinky man problem" to "debilitating brain disease". Whatever you call it, we'll likely never see another W.C. Fields ("Once, on a trek through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew...and were forced to live on food and water for several days!"):

Or even another Dean Martin or Foster Brooks:

Of course, what made those guys funny (especially Foster Brooks, who was sober most of the time) was that they weren't actually drunk - at least not as drunk as they seemed - so their schtick is raw performance. Except for W.C. Fields. That guy was drunk as hell. Martin and Brooks were experts at acting believably drunk - something incredibly hard to do - and that fact elevates their performances to the realm of well, a high, really cool ass realm or whatever.

People on YouTube have discovered that while there are few expert drunks to be found these days, there are a lot of drunk experts, and it's almost as funny to watch talented people try and convey information to an audience while actually wasted.

Enter Hannah Hart and her "My Drunk Kitchen" series, in which she gets drunk and teaches us (kind of) how to cook various simple foods like omelettes and poutine:

Of course, any examination of drunk comedy on the internet would be incomplete without a mention of Funny or Die's "Drunk History", a series in which people get hammered and then try and explain some historical event. This is our favourite, by far:

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