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This issue is about a conversation with Sam Richardson, an oral history of ‘Drunk History,’ trivia, Marge moments, and much more.

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Anyone else think Jackie Chan should’ve played The Flash?

Sam Richardson on Making ‘Detroiters’ With His Best Friend Tim Robinson, Idolizing Jean-Claude Van Damme and His Favorite Batman

There’s a face Sam Richardson makes often in The Afterparty, and it’s always a delight. As Aniq, the mild-mannered voice of reason on a show otherwise stacked with eccentrics, jerks and lost souls, the comic actor constantly wears a look of pained befuddlement, absorbing the oddness around him and trying to pretend it’s all normal.

A Very Intoxicating Oral History of ‘Drunk History’

History is written by the winners. Well, for the vast majority of humankind that’s been the case, but for six glorious years on Comedy Central, history found a new voice: the drunks. Sure, that voice may have been slurred, occasionally confused and often interrupted by burps, hiccups, sneezes and the occasional bout of vomiting, yet it still provided an accurate, wholly effective lesson about our past. It was called, of course, Drunk History.

More Boozy Reads:

• 43 Facts About Alcohol Served Up Like a Shot

• The Most Horrifying Way A Nation Tried To Stop Drinking

• 14 Myths About What Drinking Does To You

• The 'Stiff' Drink's Dark, Disgusting Creation

• 15 Of The World's Weirdest Drinking Games

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