Drunk History Returns: Comedy Central Revives the Show for YouTube
Seven years after it last aired, Drunk History is back. Comedy Central announced on 8 September 2026 that the comedy series will return with three new short-form episodes on its YouTube channel, starting 15 September. The first episode stars Meghan Trainor as Madonna, recreating the pop star's performance at the inaugural MTV Video Music Awards Variety.
The other two episodes take very different paths. One covers Frances Perkins, the architect of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. The other follows two men and their lifelong battle to build the world's largest ball of twine Variety.
The returning cast is stacked with familiar comic names. Steve Agee, Tim Baltz, Seth Green, Colin Hanks, Jack McBrayer, Chris Parnell, Johnny Pemberton, Daryl Sabara, Mae Whitman, and Weird Al Yankovic are all onboard. The narrators — the inebriated storytellers at the heart of the format — include Lisa Gilroy, Patton Oswalt, and Marisha Ray Variety.
Drunk History began life in 2007 as a web series on the comedy platform Funny or Die. Creators Derek Waters and Jeremy Konner built a simple premise: a comedian gets drunk and recounts a historical event, while actors lip-sync the narration word for word. Comedy Central picked it up as a full television series in 2013, and it ran for six seasons through 2019 Variety.
The show's path back was not straightforward. Comedy Central renewed Drunk History for a seventh season in 2019, but reversed that call in 2020 when the pandemic halted production. Waters expressed disappointment on Instagram at the time, saying he was sad to see it end but thankful for everything the show had accomplished Variety.
Now the series is returning in a different shape. Rather than a full broadcast season on linear television, the new episodes are short-form pieces built for YouTube. Ari Pearce, head of Comedy Central original content, framed the revival as part of expanding the brand's reach across platforms Comedy Central press release via Paramount Press Express.
Waters struck a straightforward note about the comeback. "I'm so excited to be back making Drunk History again!" he said Variety.
The format has come full circle in a way. It started online, moved to cable, got cut short by a global shutdown, and now lands back on a free streaming platform where anyone can watch without a subscription. Whether the YouTube revival leads to more episodes or remains a limited return has not been announced. For now, three episodes are confirmed, and the first arrives on 15 September.
