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DRUNK HISTORY
February 27, 2018  | By David Bianculli

Comedy Central, 10:00 p.m. ET

 

Tonight’s installment of Drunk History presents a segment that surprises me twice. First, in its program on “Underdogs,” it chooses to tell the story of Fred Rogers – specifically, building up to the time in 1969 when the new children’s TV host appeared before the Senate to testify in support of funding for public television. That’s one surprise. The other is that, in the inebriated retelling of this particular (and particularly timely) chapter of television history, Drunk History gets all the details right. And Colin Hanks plays Fred Rogers – which is an absolute hoot, because Tom Hanks is about to play Fred Rogers in a biographical movie, so Colin beat his dad by getting there first. And in all of cinema and TV history, I’m betting that’s a first: father and son actors, playing the same real-life character in different biographical productions. And you heard it here first, on TV Worth Watching…

 
 
 
 
 
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