On February 25, 2016 History will expand its original programming with Night Class, a new late night comedy block. The comedy block is made up of three short-form series including one from Community creator Dan Harmon. Night Class will air at 11:30pm ET/PT.
“HISTORY is excited to forge new territory in the late-night landscape with compelling and bold content that will speak to a new audience,” said Executive Vice President and Head of Programming of HISTORY Paul Cabana. “Night Class is rooted in real fact, yet full of razor sharp humor and wit.”
Details on the Night Class Comedy Block, Courtesy of History:
Great Minds with Dan Harmon – Created by Dan Harmon (Community, Rick and Morty) and Richard Korson (The Daily Show, Those Who Can’t), the series follows Harmon who invests in a time machine and is subsequently visited by history’s greatest minds. Harmon discusses his visitors’ lives and brings them out into the modern world, embarking on an adventure that drops these famous historical figures right into today’s advanced society.
· Great Minds with Dan Harmon features a stellar group of comedic performers including Jack Black as Ludwig Van Beethoven, Jason Sudeikis, Dana Carvey, Aubrey Plaza, Kristen Schaal, Scott Adsit as Ernest Hemingway, Andy Dick, Ron Funches, Paul F. Tompkins, Thomas Middleditch, and Robert Smigel.
· Crossroads of History – Created and written by Elizabeth Shapiro, the scripted short form series examines the fascinating and largely unknown moments in history that have shaped the world. Crossroads of History will lift the veil on famous events and expose little known but historically accurate facts of the story, such as: how President Lincoln’s alcoholic bodyguard, John Parker, chose the wrong night to leave his post at the Ford Theatre and how rejection from art school set a young artist, Adolf Hitler, on a very different career path.
Crossroads of History will include talent such as Lou Diamond Phillips, Brian Baumgartner, Angela Kinsey, Keir O’Donnell, Jack McBrayer, Wayne Knight, Lloyd Ahlquist, and Paul Scheer.
· How to Lose the Presidency – Throughout the history of presidential elections there are always those inspirational moments that propel a candidate to victory. These are not those moments. How to Lose the Presidency showcases real clips of embarrassing moments and mistakes from Howard Dean’s scream heard round the world and Rick Perry’s time of forgetfulness to outrageous moments in the current presidential campaign.
