In just one week’s time we’ll be asking you to pour a drunk – we mean drink – with some of the funniest faces in the country.
Premiering next Monday, 14 September at 9.30pm, the country’s best-loved comedians will retell their favourite stories from our rich and often surprising history, while sipping on their drink of choice, in the often factually incorrect, but always entertaining Drunk History Australia.
First up, the hilarious Anne Edmonds tells the story of how a woman from country Queensland in the mid-1800s, who had never even been to an opera, became the biggest opera singer in the world.
When Dame Nellie Melba (played by the fabulous Susie Youssef) made her debut in London, it wasn’t received warmly. She turned her back on the city and moved to Paris. This married woman from the colonies then began an affair with a French Duke… Oh, the scandal!
The history lesson then heads south to Melbourne where 15,000 people came to bid farewell to Burke and Wills as they left Royal Park, Melbourne in 1860. Join Aussie larrikin Harley Breen as he recounts this infamous expedition, one disaster at a time.
With 19 men, 26 camels, 270 litres of rum, a solid oak table and even a Chinese gong, somewhere somehow it all came unstuck. Osher Günsberg and James Mathison are back together, playing our heroic explorers in this extraordinary tale of how bad luck and bad leadership conspired to see Australia’s most well-resourced mission, end in disaster.
