For a series that really takes license with both science and history, what better way is there to bring the season to an end than having Dana Carvey play JFK and there be the threat of giant mutated spiders?
Don’t even bother thinking of an answer and just watch the season (and maybe series?) finale of Great Minds with Dan Harmon here.
In a much better, more concise version of what the movie Transcendence was going for, Great Minds with Dan Harmon has to deal with their latest guest, Ada Lovelace (played by Gillian Jacobs), who is credited as a pioneer with computers, and what happens when she gets her hands on a modern computer.
Also, Dan tries his darndest to play matchmaker.
Watch it all unfold and see if they achieve merging human consciousness into computers here.
The latest episode of Dan Harmon’s Great Minds manages to summon the renowned writer Edgar Allan Poe as played as sad as can be by Paul F. Tompkins.
Perhaps, you’ll hear this impersonation of the ultra-sad Poe anytime you read The Raven or The Tell-Tale Heart again
If you’ve been watching Great Minds with Dan Harmon on History channel’s Night Class, you’ve might have noticed that the relationship between Dan and Spencer Crittenden, who is solely responsible for the time travel that makes possible, is tenuous at best.
Luckily, their latest guest is none other than the legendary psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud, as played by Nick Kroll who gets to analyze their relationship, albeit in a very Freudian, psychosexual manner.
See if Kroll’s Freud is able to fix their relationship all the way in 2016.
In an attempt to be more diverse, Great Minds with Dan Harmon on History channel’s Night Class ended up with infamous dictator Idi Amin (as played by Ron Funches) as a guest.
Well, Idi started as a guest and sort of hijacked the show as dictator are wont to do when on a TV show.
Thomas Middleditch, who just happens to be a member of The Improvised Shakespeare Company, made for a great William Shakespeare on last night’s episode of Great Minds with Dan Harmon.
Unfortunately, for Harmon, Shakespeare and him didn’t quite get along as well as he had hoped especially for William’s take on modern movies and TV. They, in fact, get into a shouting match hurling insults from across the centuries at each other.
This time on Great Minds with Dan Harmon, Dan comes face to face with women’s rights pioneer Mary Wollstonecraft (as played by Aubrey Plaza) and immediately has a big time crush on her.
What follows is a pretty great example of how trailblazing Wollstonecraft really was.
Dan Harmon makes sure that people in 2016 know how crazy Thomas Alva Edison was with having Jason Sudeikis play him like the jealous bully of an inventor that he was on the latest episode of Great Minds on History channel’s Night Class.
The latest episode of Great Minds with Dan Harmon, part of History channel’s Night Class, has Dan unprepared on so many levels to meet revered writer Ernest Hemingway as played by Scott Adsit.
In fact, Dan questions himself a lot next to Hemingway, making for another great episode of this show. Watch it here.
The History channel’s Night Class looks like it’s off to a pretty great start.
One of the series within the show is Great Minds with Dan Harmon and the first episode takes wondrous comedic license with an actualized Ludwig van Beethoven as played by Jack Black being brought to the present day. Though probably not the way that many imagine Beethoven might be in real life, it’s still a pretty sweet version the classical legend.
Watch the first Great Minds with Dan Harmon here.
From the looks of these promos, the History channel might have something special on their hands with their new show, Night Class.
Three short form series, Great Minds with Dan Harmon, Crossroads of History, and How to Lose the Presidency, will all be under the umbrella of Night Class starting tonight at 11:30PM.
If you’re into Harmon talking to Beethoven as played by Jack Black, you might want to check this out tonight.
(via The Hollywood Reporter)
Looks like that Adult Swim model is more popular than ever.
Looking to expand into more comedy-centric or comedy-adjacent programming, The History channel is adding more programming on top of Join or Die with Craig Ferguson.
Night Class will be a late night block, not unlike Adult Swim on Cartoon Network. The block will include Great Minds with Dan Harmon (Dan travels in a time machine to visit history’s greatest minds as played by Jack Black, Aubrey Plaza, Paul F. Tompkins, Thomas Middleditch, Sarah Silverman, and more), Crossroads of History (Elizabeth Shapiro highlights some of the more unbelievable, less talked about moments in history featuring Jack McBrayer, Wayne Knight, Lloyd Ahlquist, and more), and How to Lose the Presidency (a panel revisits how certain candidates committed campaign suicide).
We’ll all actually get to see how Night Class feels next week when it premieres Feb. 25th at 11:30PM.