In addition to celebrating the act of getting drunk, the language makes HBO's "Veep" or "The Wire" sound positively PG. The premise involves very drunk writers and performers trying to narrate historical events through an alcohol haze.
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Based on a web series of the same name created by Waters and Jeremy Konner in 2007, "Drunk History" is not for everyone. And the crush of fans who came out to see Waters at Mother's was such that when he and a camera crew first moved into one of the ground-floor barroom areas to start shooting, club security had to quickly move Waters into a back room to break the body-to-body gridlock and pushing that engulfed the room. I feel it, and it gives you a feeling like, 'Oh, I stand for this place, and if I do something I'm not proud of, I might not make my town proud.' That motivates me, because I want to make Baltimore proud." More than a million viewers a week tuned in for "Drunk History" in its first season, an audience the creator of any freshman series on basic cable has a right to be proud of. And this city has that support for anyone who was born or lived here.
"In any industry you work in, you need support to survive. "People are proud to be from Baltimore," Waters said. "I didn't choose Baltimore just because it's my hometown," Waters said during an interview in January when he and his crew were here to film part of the episode in a jam-packed, loud and extra-boozy Mother's Federal Hill Grille. Season 2 of the woozy walk through our national past starts Tuesday night at 10 and includes an episode on July 22 set in and featuring three stories from 19th-century Baltimore - one each with Edgar Allan Poe, Francis Scott Key and Abraham Lincoln. It's a promotion for the second season of "Drunk History," the off-kilter Comedy Central hit created by Lutherville native Derek Waters. No, it's not a leftover attack ad from the 1789 presidential campaign. If you drive downtown on the Jones Falls Expressway, you might have noticed a new billboard just south of Orleans Street featuring a blurry image of George Washington and the word "DRUNK" in big bold letters.