When I  posted Funny or Die’s “Presidential Reunion” the other day I noticed they had a new Drunk History clip up.  If you’re unfamiliar with the series, be warned:  anyone sensitive about obscene language, binge drinking, or having their story teller pause periodically to wretch, may wish to skip the below clip.

Incidently, the clip that caught my eye was actually a teaser for FoD’s HBO series featuring Abraham Lincoln and Fredrick Douglas, portrayed by Will Ferrell and Don Cheadle, and looks to be worthwhile.

But there was another one I hadn’t yet seen.  View the below clip and you’ll hear the story of the 9th President of the United States, William Henry Harrison, whose tenure lasted a mere 30 days.  Harrison is played by Paul Schneider with Derek Waters on both sides of the camera.  Your story teller:  a highly shitfaced J.D. Ryznar.

Enjoy!

Related on PiP ~ Tales of the Founding Fathers from the Highly Intoxicated, 14 July 2008

Ron Howard directs a team of SNL’s presidential satirists, past and present, in Presidential Reunion from the Funny or Die Team.

From the FoD post:

Barack Obama gets a surprise visit in the night from ex-Presidents Bush Sr., Bush Jr., Clinton, Ford, Reagan and Carter to get a few pointers about the Consumer Financial Protection Agency and why it’s so important.

Stephen sends up the Fox “News” Channel pundits for their idiotic equating of recent heavy snowfall with “proof” that climate change isn’t happening.

FNC really must hold their viewers in the lowest intellectual regard.

Great satire from the FOD team and Jordan Peele in response to the U.S. Supreme Court decision on Citizens United v. FEC, declaring corporations to posses free speech rights, guaranteed under the 1st Amendment as if they were individuals.

Satire  just makes the impact of it more digestible…  Enjoy!

Sadly, it takes a satirist to illustrate how pundits have framed Obama as both, a tyrant bent on the destruction of America, and an inept president who was unable to accomplish anything during his first year in office.

Of course, neither assessment is correct.

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Again, Stephen Colbert displays why satire is the perfect lens through which to analyze the Republican Party.  Playing on comparisons of the RNC’s 10 requirements — of which potential candidates must adhere to eight to receive funding — to the Biblical Ten Commandments, Colbert listed some of its strict conservative prescriptions and noted, “They’re just like the 10 Commandments, if one of the tablets said ‘F’ and the other said ‘U.’”

(more below the clip)

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There is one bit of irony I wish Colbert would have touched on.  As I noted recently on Care2, the RNC’s decission to name their test after Ronald Reagan seems curious considering he — nor any other modern president — could have passed.

From the Care2 post:

What struck me most about Bopp’s memo was not its requirements, but its invocation of Reagan.  Employing his name becomes more significant when paired with first item on the purity list:

(1) We support smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama’s “stimulus” bill;

That they have chosen to emphasize this economic platform along with its patron saint is certainly no coincidence.  Reagan’s conservative economic prescriptions have been touted as the height of Republican fiscal discipline so frequently that they’ve achieved commandment status within the party.  That this commonly held notion is demonstrably false speaks volumes about what this “purity test” represents… (Read More)

Blog and Editorial Cartoon From Bob Englehart

Currant.com, 19 November 2009:

…I have to admit, I’ve come to enjoy and laugh at the far right in their blanket condemnation of all things Obama. They are the most entertaining thing on TV, at least as far as politics goes. An easy and useful guide to what the president is doing right is to listen to the Obamaphobes…

(Read the post HERE)