The vivacious affair was even more momentous because it celebrated the shows first story-within-a-story episode.
revolves around famed writer Mary Shelley and the events leading to Frankensteins creation.
Hes fromNew Girland a lot of other things.
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No, Otis has got to go.'
And I thought, well, that would be fun to reenact, but what if it did happen?
Whats something that you’ve got the option to prove did or didnt happen?
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And so I thought history would be really fun like a Drunk History Channel was the original idea.
JEREMY KONNER: It was 2007 now.
I want to die when I say that.
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Derek had a live show at UCB.
And it was just a one-off, funny thing that we decided to do for his midnight show.
And at the time, we filmed it with Michael Cera.
When we filmed it,Superbadhadnt come out yet.
And then when we put it up, it was the No.
1 thing on YouTube back when it had a homepage.
We were the No.
1 video that came out and it was like … it immediately became a thing.
And then we started doing it at Comedy Central.
And now, it is our year at the Emmys.
Its a drunk person and then someones moving their lips, like its gonna get old.
Thats how it came [to be], but I cant believe it.
KONNER: I was working for Jack Black at the time.
I was his assistant.
And we made the thing and it had a huge reaction.
And we never in a million years would have thought we were doing a series of these.
But then he saw it and he was like, Dude …
I want to do one of those.
And we found a friend of ours who is obsessed with Benjamin Franklin.
We were like, Oh, this is good.
This will be perfect for Jack.
That was the thing that changed the trajectory of our show.
But getting nominated is just like, wow, its a sign that people are enjoying this.
And whether we win or not, its just nice that people are going keep going.
Who was 14-years-old and stood up for herself.
And I wanted to make that story not like, Oh, forget Rosa Parks.
Its like, No, its God bless Rosa Parks, but lets also remember where it came from.
KONNER: Well this is, I would say, our most special episode.
We really hadnt ever done anything quite like this.
Evan Rachel Wood is a phenom.
Is that a word?
KONNER: We also just love this story because we get to play with a story within a story.
Its like a drunk history within a drunk history.
There are the most brilliant minds in the world getting drunk and telling stories.
And then we get to also play with fiction.
Which weve never been able to do.
Those are the ones I always search for.
KONNER: Are you kidding me?
[Laughs] I have a billion I want to talk about!
But all [I] can say is were trying to one-up ourselves.
Trying to change it up even more, trying to do something things wed never done before.
