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.
Dan Harmon’s short form series Great Minds at History Channel’s Night Class returned with more to take some delightful license with bringing historical figures to the present day and put them (as well as Dan) into morally and ethically comprising situation to humor the rest of us.
The latest episodes that have Danny Pudi play a Buddha who gets drawn into product placement and Andy Dick play a John Wilkes Booth that’s coerced into playing Lincoln accomplish this quite well.
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.
First off, Kristen Schaal playing Amelia Earhart should make your day on its own. However, Great Minds with Dan Harmon one-upped that by giving the farewell to Earhart that she probably would have wanted.
Dan Harmon scored a big get for the latest Great Minds on History channel’s Night Class with an appearance of the woman who sewed the U.S. flag, Betsy Ross, as played by comedian, actress, and big time Bernie Sanders supporter Sarah Silverman.
All the alternative flags that Betsy/Sarah are pretty fantastic and definitely made for 2016 more than they probably were for 1776.
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.
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.
The History channel is really making a point to inject comedy into their line-up in 2016. This includes a compilation of short form shows including, Great Minds with Dan Harmon, Crossroads of History, and How to Lose the Presidency, which will be called Night Class and be their latest comedy offering.
Here’s a pretty great teaser for Crossroads of History, a third of Night Class, where Josh Fadem plays Hitler in his days as an artist that never really seemed to go all that well for him.
Night Class premieres this Thurs. Feb. 25th at 11:30PM on the History channel.
(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.
Tonight, at 11PM on the History channel, Craig Ferguson’s historical panel discussion show, Join or Die, makes it maiden voyage.
Ferguson will delve into historical inquiries that personally make him curious and put his charming spin on it. We hope that this show really shows how good of an interviewer Craig really is and how criminally under-watched at The Late Late Show.
The History channel should be quite the show come Thursday, Feb. 18th at 11PM. That’s when Join or Die, hosted by Craig Ferguson, premieres.
For a while, we haven’t had a glimpse of what a sort of rogue, history focused talk show what might look like, but here is your very first glimpse of what Craig has been up to and what we have to look forward to next month.
(via Deadline)
Craig Ferguson is damn good at talking to people on TV and we’re glad that he’s getting to do it without the impetus of guests promoting things.
In an interesting turn for the History Channel, they’re going to have a panel debate show hosted by a comedian, Craig Ferguson, on Join or Die. Famous folks and historical experts will mix it up and debate various best/worst queries throughout history.
16 episodes have been ordered and we can’t help but think that comedian history buffs Conan O’Brien and Nick Offerman will want to be guests.
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