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[0:15] Jesse McAnally: Hello, I'm Jesse Mack and Alice.

[0:16] Alan Seales: And I'm Alan Seales.

[0:18] Liz Eston: And I'm Liz Eston.

[0:19] Jesse McAnally: And welcome to Carrey'd Away, a podcast where we explore the films and television shows starring the one and only James Eugene Carrey.

[0:25] Jesse McAnally: And Merry non-denominational holiday season celebration to you in our last holiday special of 2023.

[0:34] Jesse McAnally: And I think our last holiday special altogether, unless you count, like, you know, election as a holiday, which it should be.

[0:41] Alan Seales: Is there is there a Jim Carrey movie about election that we could roll out in a specific title?

[0:47] Jesse McAnally: But he did play Joe Biden for a movie's length amount of specials on SNL.

[0:51] Alan Seales: Oh, there you go.

[0:52] Jesse McAnally: Enough.

[0:52] Alan Seales: Yeah, it's very long.

[0:53] Jesse McAnally: It's very long.

[0:54] Alan Seales: It's horrendous.

[0:56] Jesse McAnally: Is it ever funny though?

[0:57] Alan Seales: Uh I don't know. I didn't really watch it while editing it. I just kind of did a copy paste thing and just put it all next to each other and pray the export didn't take six hours.

[1:06] Jesse McAnally: So.

[1:07] Alan Seales: Queen shit.

[1:08] Jesse McAnally: Wait, is next year a leap year?

[1:09] Alan Seales: Yes.

[1:09] Jesse McAnally: Yes.

[1:10] Alan Seales: 2024.

[1:10] Jesse McAnally: Oh my god, Leap Dave Williams.

[1:12] Alan Seales: Leap Dave Williams from 30 Rock.

[1:15] Jesse McAnally: That's that's another holiday. We're gonna squeeze that in somewhere in there.

[1:18] Jesse McAnally: Today we are doing something a little different, probably a shorter episode.

[1:22] Alan Seales: I will be actually shocked to my head if this goes over an hour.

[1:26] Jesse McAnally: Um today we are talking about shocked to my head.

[1:29] Alan Seales: I would be shocked in my head.

[1:31] Jesse McAnally: That was surprised to Alan.

[1:34] Alan Seales: It's like being shocked to your heart, but you're to blame.

[1:36] Jesse McAnally: Uh shock to the head. You give headaches a bad name.

[1:39] Jesse McAnally: We are talking about the Drunk History Christmas, brought to you by Funny or Die.

[1:48] Alan Seales: Hello. Today we're gonna talk about 'twas the night before Christmas.

[1:53] Jesse McAnally: So the Drunk History Christmas special was released December 19th, 2011. It was directed by Derek Waters and Jeremy Connor and written by Derek Waters. As much as you can write one of these, it starred Alan McLeod as the narrator who got obscenely drunk. Jim Carrey, Ryan Gosling, and Eva Mendes, the plot of which is the poem The Night Before Christmas, recited by a drunken Alan McLeod, enacted by some friends.

[2:16] Jesse McAnally: This was one I knew we had to do, and I kind of wanted to give it its own day in court because we all have a lot to say about drunk history, or at least I know Liz and I do. Alan, what do you think of the show? And did you watch it like outside of this?

[2:27] Alan Seales: I did. I did. I remember when it first came out, and wasn't it like a Will Ferrell episode that that pushed it viral?

[2:37] Jesse McAnally: It was on Funny or Die for a while, right?

[2:38] Alan Seales: Yes.

[2:41] Alan Seales: Um I think it works better in the TV show format than the short skit format because you even if you're not interested in another story, you at least have another one coming up. So it's a very bingeable show, like almost designed for the streaming age. You don't have to put a lot of emotional weight into it. You don't have you can just jump into an episode that's dealing with a theme that you're interested in, and you can learn something, be entertained, laugh, and see some celebrities do some goofy things.

[3:05] Alan Seales: And then, of course, there's the famous uh Lin-Manuel Miranda episode where he recounts Hamilton's life, which is one of the best episodes of TV ever.

[3:14] Jesse McAnally: Yes, I agree with that. I just like I yeah, I enjoy the celebrities being silly aspect of it. It's like celebrities are real people too. Some of them are do better than others. Like there's always that one actor that you're like, ooh, they are not putting in the effort. And then there's the one that is like so surprising, and you're like, why don't you do comedies more? Like the one that always stands out to me is Evan Rachel Wood when she was in an episode. She is so stinking good, so funny, and everything is just uh firing on all cylinders, and you never see her in things. And I'm like, why why why can't you just be weird and goofy in things instead of doing whatever it was you were doing in Across the Universe?

[3:52] Alan Seales: It might have been because at the time she was dealing with the legal uh stuff with Marilyn Manson's legal stuff and like trying to get the law changed for the statute of limitations, like actually.

[4:02] Jesse McAnally: Oh, she was trying to affect the actual world and couldn't be in movies.

[4:07] Alan Seales: Yeah, she was trying to affect the real world and couldn't be in movies. She's actually a really cool go. Phoenix Rising's on HBO Max, if you want to check out kind of what she did.

[4:12] Liz Eston: Liz, what is your history of drunk history?

[4:15] Liz Eston: I started watching it like a while ago when it was on Comedy Central every once in a while, and then it's like you said it's perfect for the streaming age, because we're s one day I was bored. I will go on Hulu. It was like, what's this drunk history thing? I think I've seen it. And then I binged it for like a week straight. And it was it's my one of my favorite shows now. It's my go-to I feel like crap show. Like, if I feel I'm having like a bad day, I'll stick on drunk history. Like, I'll stick on the Lin episode, I'll stick on the Cleopatra episode, or like there's a lot of really funny episodes of that show. I love it.

[4:45] Liz Eston: Jack Black plays Orson Welles.

[4:48] Liz Eston: Black playing Orson Welles in the Hollywood episode. Jack Black's in like four to five episodes, too. So Liam Schreiber juggling dildos, like there's a lot of iconic moments that yeah, it's one of those shows that I I want to be I just want to be a the the second grip by marriage, right? I just want to be on set to witness somewhere this creativity and fun that's obviously happening while they're filming.

[5:14] Alan Seales: I would like to be on the set of the reenactment parts, but because That's what I meant.

[5:19] Liz Eston: That's the part I meant.

[5:19] Alan Seales: Okay, the real like I don't want to be there on the day that they're getting drunk and telling the stories.

[5:24] Liz Eston: No. The smells alone and there's a lot of puke on this show.

[5:28] Alan Seales: Yeah, puke.

[5:28] Liz Eston: I will say there's a lot of puke. It's like I I went to college. I put in my dues. I didn't puke once in college due to drinking. My one blackout story is I was out with friends for his birthday party. They were pre-gaming and just kind of giving me drinks, and I just kind of sip absentmindedly. Then we get into the Uber to go to the club. I remember entering the club. I remember exiting the club. My experience at the club does not exist to me, and I'm not sure it ever did. The only reason I have proof that it happened is the photos on my phone. It was literally the hangover that happened to me. And then I got into the Uber and I was like, I might throw up in this Uber. I don't want to, but I think it might happen. So he parks and then I threw up in the hotel uh bushes like a boss.

[6:13] Alan Seales: Oh, we come from different times, my friend. Cell phones and Ubers didn't exist when I did my pukey stages.

[6:21] Liz Eston: Um, for you would have been.

[6:24] Alan Seales: Cameras.

[6:25] Liz Eston: Cameras on cell phones didn't exist.

[6:27] Alan Seales: I mean, they probably existed if they looked like you know, it was a giant sat phone with the antenna that you pulled up. You had to charge it in your car.

[6:37] Liz Eston: Like Zach Morris from Saved by the Bell, you know.

[6:42] Alan Seales: Well, now I guess we should probably talk about this this special a little bit. It's a five minute long special and it's just a recounting of the night before Christmas, which is I think the thing that invented Santa Claus in its current form, written by Samuel Clement for like as a submission to like a newspaper, like that is its history.

[7:00] Jesse McAnally: And it was written submitted anonymously, and he later would would be found and given credit for it. But as far as I'm aware, outside of like basic, like, you know, Saint Nicholas and all those things, this is the definition of all the traits of Santa Claus and as we currently know him. Um it was not as as rumored, uh, created by Coca-Cola Company, which has been a long prevailing rumor for like decades and on decades. It was just a little poem that kind of set up the entire MCU of Santa Claus, excluding his wife.

[7:30] Alan Seales: The MC.

[7:31] Jesse McAnally: You know? MCU.

[7:32] Alan Seales: Yes, the alternate reality that is Santa Claus.

[7:35] Jesse McAnally: Yes, I mean, um, and now we have this, which is a drunk guy reading it poorly and Jim Carrey being Santa Claus in it and looking looking a little loony. I enjoyed I enjoyed this. Uh one of my favorite moments is noticing that the beard, even the fake beard could not contain Jim Carrey's expressions. He was so big under that that it started like moving all over his face. It was not attached. I don't think that beard was even remotely attached at any point.

[8:06] Alan Seales: No, not at all. No, this is where they had money, so like they're just scraping it. Looking like shit, to be honest. Like, this is the humor from it looking so terrible is wonderful. Um the fact that you can still see Jim Carrey's dark hair underneath it all is wonderful. Uh is that immediately after we recorded the episode with uh Jim Carrey being Scrooge, and we were talking about how just weirdly too realistic yet not realistic it was. I had a conversation about Uncanny Valley. I learned about that word during the uh Renesme debacle of 2012. Back when the lame is movie was invented. Um god, what was what were you thinking?

[8:46] Jesse McAnally: Well, can I get on my soapbox about that for a second?

[8:49] Alan Seales: Oh god, no, let's get on topic.

[8:51] Jesse McAnally: Lame's movie.

[8:53] Alan Seales: Topic at hand.

[8:55] Jesse McAnally: Uh Russell Crowe is not the first person announced to be playing Javer in the Lane Miz movie. It was when Paul Bettany, next to Hugh Jackman, and because Hugh Jackman and Ann Handley were the first ones announced. Yeah. And then Paul Bettany was chosen. Um and announced, like basically, like he was the chosen. Then Cameron McIntosh said he's not a big enough star and begged Russell Crowe to take the role and basically usurped uh the director's first choice of Paul Bettany.

[9:21] Alan Seales: Can we fire Cameron McIntosh from the like being in charge of things, please?

[9:25] Jesse McAnally: Um and basically Russell Crowe is like I have no take on this character aside from the fact that I want him to like the little boy. That was his one take in there. That was his one like that uh he said this on camera in an interview.

[9:39] Alan Seales: Topic.

[9:40] Jesse McAnally: Drunk history, drunk topic, drunk history. Jim Carrey. Do we believe Ryan Gosling and Jim Carrey shared a single day on set?

[9:46] Alan Seales: Absolutely not.

[9:47] Jesse McAnally: No.

[9:47] Alan Seales: They never saw each other.

[9:49] Jesse McAnally: Nope. Not a bit.

[9:50] Alan Seales: Um Ryan Gosling was uh tennis ball Jim Carrey looked at.

[9:54] Jesse McAnally: Yeah.

[9:56] Alan Seales: They also just kind of look like they're in different kinds of movies directed by different people. Like, look at this cut between like Jim Carrey doing his goofy Jim Carrey stuff, and then it looks like an A24 film when we got back to Ryan Gosling.

[10:09] Jesse McAnally: It is like two different filmmaking styles edited together.

[10:14] Alan Seales: It is like an AMV from ninth or from 2006.

[10:17] Jesse McAnally: Yeah. Truly. That being said, I love every second of this. It is goofy, wonderful, truly everything you want from a silly little special.

[10:21] Alan Seales: Even Eva Mendes never looked at Ryan Gosling either.

[10:29] Jesse McAnally: Even Mendes.

[10:30] Alan Seales: Also, they definitely looked at each other. They've been married for like five ish years now.

[10:35] Jesse McAnally: Well, on set, on set. She wasn't allowed to look at him.

[10:37] Alan Seales: True fact.

[10:38] Jesse McAnally: Oh, got it. See you there you go.

[10:38] Alan Seales: Ryan Gosling's with Eva Mendes?

[10:40] Jesse McAnally: Yeah.

[10:40] Alan Seales: Yeah, they have kids.

[10:41] Jesse McAnally: Good for them.

[10:42] Alan Seales: Yeah. Good for them. I mean, how did that happen?

[10:44] Jesse McAnally: Uh, they met on The Place Beyond the Pines, I think, in 2018.

[10:47] Alan Seales: If I have to explain to you how kids are made, that's a different podcast.

[10:50] Jesse McAnally: Jez, I don't know how much were they these kids?

[10:52] Alan Seales: Were they these kids?

[10:53] Jesse McAnally: Yes, the curly red-haired kid, yes.

[10:55] Alan Seales: No, those are those those are children that are on the main show of drunk history all the time, too. So it's like the producer's kids.

[11:02] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, friends and Mark Waters and like their gender show.

[11:05] Alan Seales: We should talk about where Jim Carrey's career was at this point in time because we're used to like the Jim Carrey wasn't nobody yet, um, kind of period. We've been living in that plane for a bit. Um, but here, this was like in his wilderness the start of his autumn wilderness years. Um he had just done something like a bunch of flops. Like, this is the same year as Mr. Popper's Penguins. Um, and then he disappears and then tries to come back with Burt Wonderstone and Kick-Ass 2.

[11:35] Alan Seales: Which there's some political stuff going on in both of them. Kick is that where he almost like destroys the entire marketing for Kick-Ass 2.

[11:46] Jesse McAnally: For reasonable reasons, but he it did not win him many friends in that marketing team or throughout the film industry.

[11:54] Alan Seales: Do I mean we can probably talk about that more, but he basically refused to do any marketing for that film because of Sandy Hook.

[12:00] Jesse McAnally: Yeah.

[12:00] Alan Seales: Which I don't know the connection, but whatever.

[12:03] Jesse McAnally: I think it's because there's a lot of guns in Kick-Ass 2, and he was like made the correlation, and he might have been with Jenny McCarthy at the time. So, you know, brain was a little bit uh anti-vaxxing.

[12:14] Alan Seales: He had his reasons, yeah, but he was kind of in the wilderness zone because he wasn't always a team player.

[12:20] Jesse McAnally: Yeah. Yeah.

[12:21] Alan Seales: Well, that that seems to be a trend. He was just something that popped up, and then he disappeared after Burt Wonderstone and Kick-Ass, did a Dumb and Dumber, and then disappeared again for like eight years until Sonic the Hedgehog.

[12:33] Jesse McAnally: But it works for him. I mean It doesn't I'm just saying he he he's never had that kind of nineties run ever again. He's never had a year as good as ninety-four, or even touching that after that.

[12:45] Alan Seales: No, that's true.

[12:46] Jesse McAnally: Not at all.

[12:46] Alan Seales: No. Why do you think he agreed to do drunk history?

[12:49] Jesse McAnally: Probably as a favor. Like, this is fun, and this isn't even his first Funny or Die. Like he did like the Ronald Reagan All the Presidents meetup sketch. Like he's down for sketches and appearances for friends. Like he he would appear on David Letterman's final episode in that time. He would pop up on Conan every now and then. He was known for being happy to be himself, but he wasn't really game to do any roles or play in any movies.

[13:13] Alan Seales: I guess, yeah, if he just can go and riff, maybe he just doesn't want to learn lines.

[13:18] Jesse McAnally: I c I feel that.

[13:19] Alan Seales: I feel that. And he maybe just doesn't have the energy, because I don't know. Maybe it is a Robin Williams kind of thing where just always being at a hundred is kind of exhausting and feeling the need to do that.

[13:29] Jesse McAnally: But how about we go on to our favorite section, our critical corner, where we compare our opinions to those of the folks on different websites.

[13:37] Alan Seales: This doesn't have a letterbox, so where do we get our our little critic reviews today, Liz?

[13:42] Liz Eston: He went to the lovely site of Amazon.com where people are very not vague, so I can't trick you guys as much.

[13:50] Jesse McAnally: But you know, we did I did my best. But if you don't know how this game goes, it's a one star or five star reviews.

[13:57] Liz Eston: Liz is gonna read us real reviews from a real website, and we have to guess based on the review alone whether they're a one-star or five-star.

[14:03] Jesse McAnally: Usually we use letterbox where it's horny and full of degenerates, but here we're on Amazon where it's just mostly your mom.

[14:08] Alan Seales: Yeah, it's just your mom complaining, mostly.

[14:11] Jesse McAnally: Mom, stop it.

[14:12] Liz Eston: A lot of these aren't here, but a lot of the reviews are like Amazon's quality sucks.

[14:18] Alan Seales: Why is this show on?

[14:19] Jesse McAnally: It makes no sense.

[14:20] Alan Seales: Drunk people are bad.

[14:21] Jesse McAnally: Like, that's most of the negative reviews for drunk history.

[14:24] Alan Seales: And I'm like, okay.

[14:25] Liz Eston: And that was all Jim Carrey.

[14:26] Alan Seales: Yeah, and then he started preaching about anti-vaxx.

[14:30] Jesse McAnally: Yeah.

[14:30] Alan Seales: Thanks, Edward Locklear.

[14:31] Jesse McAnally: See, I did it too.

[14:32] Alan Seales: Oh my gosh, you did the meme.

[14:34] Jesse McAnally: I didn't I eat the meme where Alan doesn't know who Jenny McCarthy is.

[14:38] Liz Eston: Um, what's our first one?

[14:40] Alan Seales: All right, Alan, you're gonna go first, because Jess went first last time.

[14:43] Jesse McAnally: Okay, Jess, I am ready.

[14:45] Alan Seales: God damn, can we drop this fucking joke?

[14:48] Jesse McAnally: We're never gonna drop it.

[14:49] Alan Seales: It's we build it just we can.

[14:52] Jesse McAnally: If only.

[14:53] Alan Seales: That's the review.

[14:54] Jesse McAnally: Comma, ellipses, period.

[14:55] Alan Seales: If only, that's it.

[14:56] Jesse McAnally: Uh semicolon?

[14:58] Alan Seales: Nope, just the phrase if only with no punctuation.

[14:58] Jesse McAnally: If only.

[15:02] Alan Seales: Um one star.

[15:04] Jesse McAnally: That is correct.

[15:05] Alan Seales: Yes!

[15:05] Jesse McAnally: Actually, that's five.

[15:06] Alan Seales: My bad, Alan.

[15:07] Jesse McAnally: I just misread it.

[15:08] Alan Seales: It's wrong.

[15:09] Jesse McAnally: Sorry.

[15:10] Alan Seales: Way to go, Liz.

[15:12] Jesse McAnally: You should do that for everyone.

[15:14] Alan Seales: Do I credit?

[15:15] Liz Eston: That's the first time I've done that.

[15:16] Alan Seales: So I'm usually pretty on point.

[15:19] Jesse McAnally: That's true.

[15:19] Alan Seales: And my ego will never recover.

[15:21] Jesse McAnally: It's my turn.

[15:22] Alan Seales: How about I go?

[15:23] Jesse McAnally: Alright, Jess.

[15:24] Alan Seales: Jesse is.

[15:25] Jesse McAnally: May as well keep these on YouTube.

[15:27] Alan Seales: May as well keep these on YouTube.

[15:28] Jesse McAnally: Uh-huh.

[15:29] Alan Seales: One.

[15:29] Jesse McAnally: Oh, that's a good one.

[15:30] Alan Seales: Correct.

[15:30] Jesse McAnally: That's obvious.

[15:31] Alan Seales: That was so obvious.

[15:32] Jesse McAnally: It's a five!

[15:33] Alan Seales: What?

[15:35] Jesse McAnally: Wait, I did it again!

[15:36] Alan Seales: Alright.

[15:37] Jesse McAnally: Alright, Alan.

[15:38] Alan Seales: Uh, to make it up to you, I'll give you one of my favorite ones I found.

[15:42] Jesse McAnally: Okay.

[15:42] Alan Seales: Okay.

[15:43] Jesse McAnally: Now there's pressure, but it's gonna be so obvious that I'm gonna screw it up.

[15:46] Alan Seales: The he in this review is referring to Ryan Gosling, by the way.

[15:49] Jesse McAnally: I cut out some context.

[15:51] Alan Seales: I'm not gay, but oh boy, if he was in prison with me, I'd ask him to make me make hooch.

[15:57] Jesse McAnally: Because shit, my recipe don't work.

[16:02] Alan Seales: Can we repeat that?

[16:04] Jesse McAnally: Absolutely.

[16:04] Alan Seales: I want a dramatic reading, please.

[16:06] Jesse McAnally: I'm not gay.

[16:06] Alan Seales: Okay.

[16:07] Jesse McAnally: But oh following.

[16:08] Alan Seales: But oh boy, if he was in prison with me, I'd ask me in prison.

[16:11] Jesse McAnally: I'd ask him how to make hooch because shit, my recipe don't work.

[16:15] Alan Seales: Googling how to make hooch.

[16:17] Jesse McAnally: I don't know what that means, but a prison was involved and it started with I'm not gay.

[16:21] Alan Seales: Oh, it's homemade alcohol beverages.

[16:23] Jesse McAnally: Got it.

[16:24] Alan Seales: Yeah, you make it in in a prison toilet, right?

[16:28] Jesse McAnally: Toilet and wine.

[16:28] Alan Seales: Toilet prison liquor.

[16:30] Jesse McAnally: Got it.

[16:31] Alan Seales: Yeah, he would drink hooch made from Ryan Gosling's poop receptacle.

[16:35] Jesse McAnally: Or piss.

[16:35] Alan Seales: So I'm gonna go I'm going with five star.

[16:37] Jesse McAnally: That is correct.

[16:38] Alan Seales: Yes.

[16:38] Jesse McAnally: Yes.

[16:38] Alan Seales: Okay.

[16:39] Jesse McAnally: Is this man writing from prison?

[16:43] Alan Seales: Actual question.

[16:45] Jesse McAnally: Leaving this review on the prison library computer?

[16:48] Alan Seales: After this is over, I may check out this user and just see what else he's put reviews on.

[16:52] Jesse McAnally: See if there's any indication that he's in prison.

[16:55] Alan Seales: Can you order things from Amazon from prison?

[17:03] Jesse McAnally: I think maybe you could order a fish tank.

[17:06] Alan Seales: Maybe.

[17:06] Jesse McAnally: Oh no.

[17:07] Alan Seales: Then I can smash the guard's head with it and start a ride.

[17:11] Jesse McAnally: That's true.

[17:12] Alan Seales: Yeah.

[17:13] Jesse McAnally: I mean, what could be a everything can be a weapon, so what could you order that couldn't be a weapon?

[17:17] Alan Seales: That's true.

[17:18] Jesse McAnally: That's true.

[17:18] Alan Seales: A bag of healing.

[17:21] Jesse McAnally: No.

[17:21] Alan Seales: What's the next one, Liz?

[17:23] Liz Eston: I cried and had to pause, pause it because I couldn't breathe.

[17:26] Alan Seales: That's a five.

[17:26] Jesse McAnally: That is correct.

[17:27] Alan Seales: Yeah.

[17:28] Jesse McAnally: Alan.

[17:29] Alan Seales: Yes.

[17:29] Jesse McAnally: Too infantile.

[17:31] Alan Seales: One star.

[17:32] Jesse McAnally: Correct.

[17:33] Alan Seales: This is a very easy game.

[17:35] Jesse McAnally: Wonder if the kids at home are loving it.

[17:37] Alan Seales: I'm glad we go on tangents between every question.

[17:40] Jesse McAnally: Here's the secret.

[17:40] Liz Eston: I cut out most of the tangents.

[17:42] Alan Seales: Hell yeah.

[17:43] Jesse McAnally: Yeah.

[17:44] Alan Seales: So they just get the meat.

[17:45] Jesse McAnally: They just get the meat of the letterbox, and not us ranting for five minutes about unrelated topics.

[17:50] Alan Seales: Teenagers can now learn their history.

[17:54] Liz Eston: That's a five.

[17:55] Alan Seales: That is correct.

[17:57] Jesse McAnally: And I agree.

[17:58] Alan Seales: I feel like I'd be able to use yes.

[18:00] Jesse McAnally: And not adults who haven't heard of these things before.

[18:02] Alan Seales: Adults don't learn nothing.

[18:04] Jesse McAnally: They stopped being their brains stopped being plastic at 26.

[18:07] Alan Seales: Now they're just basically waiting to die.

[18:10] Jesse McAnally: I think you're right.

[18:12] Alan Seales: I think.

[18:13] Jesse McAnally: Just like me.

[18:14] Alan Seales: I'm just waiting to die.

[18:17] Jesse McAnally: Alright, Alan.

[18:18] Alan Seales: You're ready.

[18:20] Liz Eston: Liz, I am.

[18:20] Alan Seales: That doesn't work at all.

[18:22] Liz Eston: Liz do this.

[18:23] Alan Seales: Will I am a dude?

[18:25] Liz Eston: Okay, Liz do this one.

[18:28] Alan Seales: Liz do this.

[18:29] Jesse McAnally: Come on, baby.

[18:30] Alan Seales: I don't enjoy it watching people vomit.

[18:33] Jesse McAnally: One star.

[18:34] Alan Seales: That is crucial.

[18:35] Jesse McAnally: They're wrong.

[18:35] Alan Seales: It's really good and fun.

[18:37] Jesse McAnally: It's I totally don't fast forward through those parts.

[18:39] Alan Seales: Schaden Freud.

[18:40] Jesse McAnally: I can't believe we're doing this episode Bone Sober.

[18:42] Alan Seales: We should have had at least.

[18:43] Jesse McAnally: Instead of drinking.

[18:44] Alan Seales: Uh just kind of stupid.

[18:47] Jesse McAnally: Five.

[18:47] Alan Seales: That was a one.

[18:48] Jesse McAnally: Ooh.

[18:49] Alan Seales: You threw that one.

[18:50] Jesse McAnally: Come on.

[18:51] Alan Seales: I was thinking like there had to be one that was a bit of a throw, you know?

[18:55] Jesse McAnally: I don't know.

[18:55] Alan Seales: These have all been pretty like non-horny, straightforward.

[18:59] Jesse McAnally: Alright, Alan, you ready?

[19:00] Alan Seales: Liz do this.

[19:01] Jesse McAnally: Okay.

[19:02] Alan Seales: That's the that's the review.

[19:03] Jesse McAnally: Okay.

[19:06] Alan Seales: Damn it.

[19:06] Jesse McAnally: This one's actually hard.

[19:08] Alan Seales: Uh okay.

[19:11] Jesse McAnally: Or okay.

[19:12] Alan Seales: Okay.

[19:12] Jesse McAnally: Okay.

[19:13] Alan Seales: Uh, five star.

[19:15] Jesse McAnally: That was a one.

[19:16] Alan Seales: No!

[19:16] Jesse McAnally: I knew it.

[19:17] Alan Seales: I knew it.

[19:17] Jesse McAnally: I knew it.

[19:18] Alan Seales: Alright, just.

[19:19] Jesse McAnally: This is the last one.

[19:20] Alan Seales: Amazed to see.

[19:21] Jesse McAnally: Amazed to see so many big Hollywood guest actors.

[19:26] Alan Seales: You're right.

[19:29] Jesse McAnally: And yeah, you're right.

[19:31] Alan Seales: Ask if I was ready.

[19:32] Jesse McAnally: Okay, you said five.

[19:34] Alan Seales: It was amazed to see somebody big Hollywood amazed to see so many big Hollywood guest stars.

[19:38] Jesse McAnally: And it was funny.

[19:39] Alan Seales: I'm sticking with my ass for Hey, I won!

[19:41] Jesse McAnally: I'm better than everyone else.

[19:45] Alan Seales: Alright, just won.

[19:49] Jesse McAnally: I'm better than God.

[19:50] Alan Seales: I'll fight God and compete with the game.

[19:53] Jesse McAnally: I think God will beat you with the letterbox game.

[19:55] Alan Seales: I hate to tell you.

[19:56] Jesse McAnally: No, I don't think he will.

[19:56] Alan Seales: He knows all of these sin.

[19:58] Jesse McAnally: And the letterbox game is made of sin.

[20:00] Alan Seales: It really is made of sin.

[20:01] Jesse McAnally: It's sinful.

[20:02] Alan Seales: It is truly sinful in nature.

[20:04] Jesse McAnally: And he I feel like he gives a benefit of the doubt because if he doesn't, he he he he kills us all.

[20:08] Alan Seales: That's true.

[20:09] Jesse McAnally: And we haven't died yet.

[20:10] Alan Seales: Not yet.

[20:10] Jesse McAnally: Um but we are over 26, so we're just waiting for it.

[20:14] Alan Seales: Yes, and that is all we are doing.

[20:16] Jesse McAnally: That being said, do we know why it got cancelled?

[20:18] Alan Seales: Because it's really stupid.

[20:20] Jesse McAnally: No, but I know my heart was broken with half.

[20:22] Alan Seales: You mean the reason got canceled is stupid or the show is stupid.

[20:25] Jesse McAnally: No, the reason it got sh cancelled is stupid.

[20:27] Alan Seales: No, I don't know.

[20:28] Jesse McAnally: I just figured ratings.

[20:29] Alan Seales: So no, ratings were good.

[20:30] Jesse McAnally: They got renewed for another season.

[20:33] Alan Seales: But it got renewed in late 2019.

[20:36] Jesse McAnally: They started production, shot a few full episodes.

[20:40] Alan Seales: And then I don't know if there you guys are aware of this, but in March of 2020, something kinda happened.

[20:46] Jesse McAnally: Um that made production and drinking in front of cameras difficult.

[20:51] Alan Seales: So Comedy Central with a bunch of finished episodes, just canceled the show and said we don't want this anymore.

[20:57] Jesse McAnally: Huh?

[20:58] Alan Seales: So previously we're doing it.

[20:59] Jesse McAnally: Could Funny or Die just put out the finished episodes?

[21:03] Alan Seales: I don't think so.

[21:04] Jesse McAnally: No.

[21:04] Alan Seales: Because Comedy Central owns them and we're the ones who produce them.

[21:07] Jesse McAnally: Well, that's what I mean.

[21:07] Alan Seales: Like just sell it to Funny or Die.

[21:10] Jesse McAnally: Or license it.

[21:11] Alan Seales: Or do something with a business.

[21:12] Jesse McAnally: Business, business.

[21:13] Alan Seales: Lord.

[21:14] Jesse McAnally: That's like when American Vandal got cancelled.

[21:15] Alan Seales: I my friend was interning at Funny or Die at the time, so apparently they were trying to shop it around to other networks, but nothing came up.

[21:22] Jesse McAnally: American Vandal was probably it's like another wonderful show that I wish got another season.

[21:27] Alan Seales: Also my favorite shows.

[21:29] Jesse McAnally: Thing is, funny or drunk history got a really uptick in streaming watches during the pandemic because it is a very easy to watch show.

[21:37] Alan Seales: Yeah.

[21:38] Jesse McAnally: I watched like all of it in like a month.

[21:39] Alan Seales: It was like the peak of the pandemic for me.

[21:42] Jesse McAnally: And you always just want just one more, and they didn't really have a wrap-up.

[21:45] Alan Seales: It and not like you have to wrap up all the plot lines or anything, but it would have been nice for them to kind of have a big blowout.

[21:50] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, like a big epic special.

[21:52] Alan Seales: Yeah, just like getting everybody together to vomit.

[21:54] Jesse McAnally: That would have been cool.

[21:55] Alan Seales: I it's a bummer, especially because I really do like this premise and feel like it's a a novel concept that and it's rare to have those nowadays.

[22:03] Jesse McAnally: Like a novel comedic conceit that really works, and even at the even the worst episode of Drunk History is better than most things because of the way it's structured.

[22:12] Alan Seales: It sounds like you just would know the origin of how and why it was created.

[22:18] Jesse McAnally: Was it like a bunch of people sitting around in college who happened to be history majors trying to out history each other?

[22:24] Alan Seales: And one of them happened to be a film major and was like, I want to turn this into something cool.

[22:29] Jesse McAnally: And that one person happened to be Southern?

[22:32] Alan Seales: Um I don't think it was.

[22:33] Jesse McAnally: I know the guy that really was the big uh proponent behind this was Derek Waters.

[22:37] Alan Seales: Um he is listed as a creator and is in basically every episode.

[22:41] Jesse McAnally: Sometimes other people step in and he's the one asking questions, drinking with the person, making them feel comfortable.

[22:48] Alan Seales: So I think he was just the guy with a lot of stand-up comedian friends that really wanted to kind of have an excuse to m laugh around with them and exist.

[22:56] Jesse McAnally: With the Funnier or Die web series, Will Ferrell and Ann McKay produced it and would go on to produce the proper TV show.

[23:03] Alan Seales: And I think it just started as like wouldn't it be funny if I had you do sum up this history thing I know you know about and XYZ Liz unless I'm wrong.

[23:11] Jesse McAnally: I assume it was just kind of like let's do a funny little video.

[23:14] Alan Seales: Um yeah it it kind of was that um he apparently I did originated where Derek Waters got drunk with Jake Johnson.

[23:21] Jesse McAnally: Ooh in which Jake Johnson talked about Otis Redding who and how he died in a plane crash and Waters thought it'd be funny if a drug person told a history to like a real history and to the best of their ability while real people reenacted it.

[23:36] Alan Seales: So then he told Michael Sarah about it and they were like Michael Sarah was like that's a great idea so then they made the Hamilton duel video for funny or die.

[23:45] Jesse McAnally: Yeah that was good I remember that kind of kickstarted this whole thing.

[23:48] Alan Seales: I mean that works and the fact that it all comes back to Derek Waters it's all goes back to Jake Johnson and Michael Sarah of all people.

[23:55] Jesse McAnally: Yeah Michael Sarah I remember definitely he was in the first like whole season right yeah he was in a lot of episodes he played uh Andrew Jackson one time how well do you think Derek Waters' liver is doing sincerely he wasn't doing as much drinking as the people talking no but every time I see him he does have hard liquor in a glass yeah that's a good point and he looks visibly at least a buzzed he looks like sweaty in that kind of like pretty messed up way sweaty like a mess at him and his divorced dad chic you know yeah, he's very divorced, dad.

[24:32] Alan Seales: And on that note, what is our overall thoughts on drunk history and our ratings of no spank you or uh what's the other one?

[24:40] Jesse McAnally: Alrighty then.

[24:41] Alan Seales: Alrighty then.

[24:42] Jesse McAnally: Are you drunk?

[24:42] Alan Seales: Are you?

[24:43] Jesse McAnally: No, I wish I was.

[24:44] Alan Seales: I wish I was.

[24:46] Jesse McAnally: Um it is two o'clock in the afternoon, and I have other things to do today.

[24:51] Alan Seales: I think I'm just stupid.

[24:52] Jesse McAnally: Which might be worse.

[24:54] Alan Seales: Okay, let's play a game of Would You Rather.

[24:56] Jesse McAnally: Would you rather be drunk or stupid?

[24:58] Liz Eston: Liz, you go first.

[25:00] Liz Eston: I love drunk history. It's one of my favorite shows ever. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend watching it. It's a fun time. It doesn't require brain power. And it's always very funny. Lynn, the Lynn episode is fantastic if you're looking for something musical-esque. Lynn Manuel Miranda being drunk and face loving Quest Love was the highlight of my life for about a month. Um but yeah, I'm gonna give this a definite alrighty then. This is a very cute special. It's on YouTube. So check it out. It's only five minutes. So uh highly recommend it.

[25:30] Alan Seales: I am also going to give this probably the very first hard alrighty then.

[25:37] Jesse McAnally: Yes.

[25:37] Alan Seales: Yes.

[25:38] Jesse McAnally: Yes.

[25:38] Alan Seales: I I enjoyed it. I've I watched it before uh I had to for this podcast. I yeah, I just like it's fun. It's something you can watch with the whole family. I actually have shown this to my parents.

[25:50] Jesse McAnally: That sounds so lovely.

[25:51] Alan Seales: My gosh. Um, yeah, I agree. Um hard uh alrighty then. Um truly a a good time. A good time, low stress, turn it on while you're taking a poop, and you know, you'll be entertained thoroughly.

[26:05] Jesse McAnally: Five minute poop. I hope you have a wonderful holiday season. Be safe. Don't don't do drugs, don't hit your kids, and be very kind to your parents. Thank you. And be sure to come back next week. Please follow us on iTunes and Spotify at carried away with Jess and Allen. Twitter at Carried Away Pod. Instagram carried away pod. Email us at carried away podcast at gmail.com to tell us how wrong we are about a Christmas carol. Our title card is created by the amazing Grace Aki. Go follow them on Instagram at It's Grace Aki. This show is produced and edited by Elizabeth Eston, and they're doing a great job, aren't they?

[26:37] Alan Seales: Our theme song is I choose you by the band Thanks. Thank you to the Broadway Podcast Network for having us on the platform and for not kicking us off for endorsing drunk driving history.

[26:47] Jesse McAnally: What drunk drives through history?

[26:50] Alan Seales: What?

[26:50] Jesse McAnally: Alright, anything else we have left to say.

[26:52] Alan Seales: Did you say tell us how wrong we are about a Christmas carry?

[26:54] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, I was gonna say you said how long about a Christmas carol, which was last week.

[27:01] Alan Seales: That's true.

[27:02] Jesse McAnally: All right. People have a lot of opinions, and you know what? They have to spit them out somewhere. It might as well be at our email address. And if you too know what the uncanny valley is, let us know. We'll see you next time on Carrey'd Away. Happy holiday.

[27:16] Alan Seales: Snappy holidays.

[27:20] Jesse McAnally: Snappy holidays.

[27:21] Alan Seales: Snappy holidays.

[27:23] Jesse McAnally: Snappy holidays.

[27:25] Alan Seales: Snappy holidays.

[27:27] Jesse McAnally: Let the merry bells keep snapping.

[27:30] Alan Seales: Happy Snappy Dap.