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Tonight: Rachel Bloom Narrates the Eichmann Kidnapping, With Weird Al as Eichmann

In an episode of ‘Drunk History’ I’ve always imagined in my dreams

by
Liel Leibovitz
June 26, 2018
Courtesy Comedy Central
Rachel Bloom in 'Drunk History'Courtesy Comedy Central
Courtesy Comedy Central
Rachel Bloom in 'Drunk History'Courtesy Comedy Central

Tonight’s episode of Drunk History will feature everything that has made the show, now in its fifth season, a hit: A sloshed celebrity attempting to tell a story while under the influence, and first-rate comedians recreating said story in hilarious snippets. But tonight’s episode will also feature a combination likely to make a certain kind of Jewish nerd’s head explode: The story featured will be that of Adolf Eichmann’s kidnapping, the storyteller will be Rachel Bloom, and the evil Nazi will be played by none other than Weird Al Yankovic.

We’ll run a thorough review tomorrow, but judging by the long preview released by Comedy Central, it’s going to be one for the ages, especially as Tony Hale of Veep and Arrested Development fame plays Isser Harel, the legendary Mossad boss who ordered the kidnapping. How was the Nazi criminal smuggled on board a Tel Aviv-bound flight? The Mossad agent, a drunk Bloom opines, were “full-on Weekend at Bernies-ing the orchestrator of the worst thing that’s ever happened in their lives.” Amen, sister. Here’s the preview, and let’s all have a few tonight and watch one of Nazi Germany’s vilest villains played by America’s most affable man:

Liel Leibovitz is editor-at-large for Tablet Magazine and a host of its weekly culture podcast Unorthodox and daily Talmud podcast Take One. He is the editor of Zionism: The Tablet Guide.