Sabella Nitti wasn’t hanged though, she got a makeover and was freed. Like literally she got a hair cut and her nails done and all of sudden newspapers went from calling her an animal to a butterfly because of her transformation. There’s a book called Ugly Prey that talks about her and her time in Cooks County Jail and her trial.

The acting and lipsync was absolutely absolutely on point on this!!!!!!

I guess...they had it coming.

This made me sad, because of the innocent woman who got hanged. Gives a new meaning to the immigrant girl with the white handkerchief in "Cell Block Tango".

The actresses who lip synced are dead on👌😂

SABELLA NITTI WAS NOT HANGED. 😂 She was sentenced to death, but a pioneering female lawyer saved her. And I don't recall ever reading her saying that her husband beat her. The reporters could not understand her dialect of Italian. The only one that kind of could understand became her lawyer.

And then they both reached for the gun, oh yes oh yes oh yes they bo-

"the brave little women" sounds like a crossover of "little women" and "the brave little toaster"

the reporter lady did such a good ass job, the way she matched everything was hilarious.

She danced around his grave ... mere minutes after shooting him 😂

I mostly cringe when presenters are way too hammered to tell the story. These 2 got just the right amount of drunk. Hahahaha

Those two are so adorable, cuddling up while drunkenly explaining murdereress row

What’s the moral of the story? Stay away from Jazz and Liquor and the men who play for fun

If you close you eyes when Mae talks. You’re listening to drunk Katara.

I will pay anything to have Jane Levy, Mae Whitman, Malin Akerman, Lake Bell and Minka Kelly do the Cell Block Tango.

Hearing Katara drunk is the best thing ever💀

Read about this a few days ago, before seeing this video, and it absolutely blew my fucking mind. I couldn’t believe how accurate a lot of the musical was. The “Both Reached For The Gun” scene? That shit happened! The press conference happened! Those words were actually uttered by Beulah and her defense, and the lyrics are ripped right out of contemporary newspapers. Belva’s defense was also the same exact defense used in Chicago. “I completely blacked out, I can’t remember a thing”. She really *was* found coveted in blood in her home. Fortunately, from what I’ve read, Sabella Nitti (in the musical she’s the Hungarian “uh-uh, not guilty!” woman) was actually spared from hanging. She changed her look in that prison beauty school because the prosecution’s cased almost entirely hinged on her being an ugly “animal” and “not a woman”. I found it ironic that the prosecutors bemoaned Belva and Beulah getting free just because of their beauty (“another pretty woman goes free!” was the quote from Assistant State Attorney William F McLaughlin) yet they based their entire case against Sabella on the fact that she was ugly. They’re upholding and perpetuating the very system they claim to hate. Men will get angry and accuse women of having “privilege” because we’re forced to work within systems *they* create and uphold. Still relevant today! Anyway, her appeal went to the Illinois Supreme Court. A group of lawyers (including an amazing, badass, wonderful FEMALE LAWYER Helen Cirese. Yes, in the fucking 1920s, a female Yale graduate attorney) banded together to help Sabella Nitti navigate the appeals process, construct her defense and change her image. Her trial date kept getting pushed back over and over again until finally, hallelujah, the flimsy, circumstantial, erroneous charges were DROPPED. Sabella Nitti went free because of her image change and the good will of a band of lawyers determined not to see a woman hang for something she clearly had no part in. A female lawyer fights to free the first female sentenced to death in Cook County and succeeds. It’s almost a better story than Chicago itself, isn’t it? Certainly a less cynical one. I hate to think that people think Nitti hung because it’s mistakenly stated in this video and implied in the musical. She lived y’all!

Long ago, men and women lived together in harmony. Everything changed when jazz and drink attacked! But I believe Maurine Dallas Watkins can save the world.

The way she said "Sabella Nitti" to her editor made coffee shoot out of my nose with laughter!

I'm not saying that we need a Robert Sheehan edition of Drunk History but that's exactly what I'm saying

Could have sworn that was Eddie Redmayne in the thumbnail

Oh yes Oh yes Oh yes They both Oh yes they both Oh yes they both Reached for The gun The gun The gun The gun The gun The gun The gun They reached For the gun

So, basically, blaming jazz in 1924 is no different than blaming video games in 2019.

Give them the old razzle dazzle

2:58 all that I heard was "and we both reached for gun! " god Chicago is so good

They *both* reached for the gun. Sad that they had to put on make-up to get freed, instead of the justice system treating it as a self-defense case.

I have a difficult time viewing Mae Whitman as a drinking-age adult. She’ll always be the President’s little girl in Independence Day to me.

Jane and Mae hiccuping and Jane yelling at the end was the cherry on top of a hilarious sundae

I think the most important take away from this story and the play Chicago is the moral role media plays. How they choose to present a story largely contributes to the public perception and can ultimately decide life and death and what we deem important in society.

Can they make a drunk history, about drunk history?

How am I just now finding out Mae voiced Katara? Thanks fellow commenters.

Moral of the story: stay away from jazz and liquor. *hiccup*

The production values in this series are just wonderful. The costumes, the sets, the lighting, the props - just top notch stuff.

We love a good lesbian redemption arc

actually it was made into the film "Roxy Hart" with Ginger Rogers THEN Bob Fosse used THAT and the book to create Chicago the musical.

All I thought while I was watching this was "cOmE oN bABe wHy dOnt wE pAinT tHE tOwN, aNd aLl tHaT jAzZ"

Mae and Jane are acting just a touch sapphic Or is it just me

when she said that they both reached for the gun I immediately had the song in my head

I've seen a lot of Drunk History and some of my favorites include the really funny ones but THIS one really tops the list: funny drunk, GREAT actors and pristine lip sync, can we also appreciate the make-up, production, and editing please. Everything is perfect. 08:52 puts the cherry on top (because I dont know how to do that)

my sexual identity is 'murderess'

I love how the actors even take in account the hiccups 😂😂

All the actresses were really good. Jane Levy and her hiccups and both there dialogues wer awesome. I hope Jane Levy can hit big in the movie industry. She is charismatic like Emma Stone esp in Comedy genre.

1:59 has me in tears 😂😂

8:50 Velma is blowing circles of smoke and it's driving me crazy!!

Correction: Phantom of the Opera is the longest running. Chicago is the second.

Dead *pause* as hell LOL

The continuous hiccuping just about killed me... I couldn’t stop laughing!

Scruffy Daddy Derek is at prime cuteness in this episode

"We're discussing Murderess Row." "awe :) "

Are we not going to talk about how these are the hilarious actresses of Childrens Hospital?

Just found out about Drunk History this year. I am SO GLAD I did!🤣🤣

Definitely one of the best episodes 😂

They should make drunk mythology!

Never thought in my life I’d hear Katara get drunk and talk about history

Love this show...thanks for uploading...I never knew when it was on in comedy central😀👉😎👈

I really Love this phenomenal presentation.

Looooooved this! Note on the musical though: Chicago is only the longest running AMERICAN musical on Broadway, Phantom of the Opera (British) is the longest running overall. Chicago was actually not very successful in its initial run, but the 90s revival was a smash hit that continued until the Broadway shutdown (and should be returning when the shutdown ends), and that is why it's the longest running American musical.

"Smoking in the Jail Cell, smoking in the jail cell.." that's now a song.

bruh I did my whole thesis on this. I AM HERE FOR THIS 👏🏻

LOVE THIS! Chicago is my favorite musical, and I saw it live in SF. I had no idea the entire backstory. And that's it's a story about how women got to be on juries!

The hiccups though 😂😂😂

8:36 I'm pretty sure Phantom is the longest running Broadway play. Well... I guess they are drunk, so I'll give them a pass.

"oh" that reaction had me dying right away

This was hilarious!!!😂👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

Has anyone ever just threw up in one of these? Or even passed out maybe? That would be funny.

i laughed so hard EVERY freakin time the editor guy showed up. historically, even in other countries a lot of woman-convicts got not-guilty sentences just because the judges figured that these women were too inferior to plan a crime.

I just found this video and this is pretty amazing, especially the acting and the lipsync.. So funny

This is one of my favourite ones

What are these drinks?! They look fun.

Chicago is so amazing..also it's weird how the celebrity of being a killer doesn't change over time

This is one of my favs

I frickin love this!

Drunk Katara is so much fun you guys

Drunk History should make reaction videos of the narrators watching their re-enactments.

I would love to see the actors behind the scenes, I literally would be like laughing SO MUCH.

I wanna see the prep or what not for these. Absolutely love Drunk History!💯❤️ Did anyone else search the Hula Lou song? I did lol

**immediately watches Chicago after this**

Mae was so putting the moves on her. I approve. 😂😃

Did anyone else start singing "We Both Reached For The Gun" from the show???? LOL 🙈😂🇹🇹

“Skinny little noses” that got me good😂

All I hear is a drunk Tinkerbell, love it

Lol @ "Cook's County"

Watching this while drunk 😂

That editor actor had the best ”Sucking on fingers and laughing”-lipsync ever haha

I love Mae whitman!!👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾Also IS THAT MINKA KELLY!🖤

Ah yes, black culture as a scapegoat. A timeless classic.

the way the reporter moved the typewriter thingy at the same time as the hiccup 8:18. iconic

I live nearby Cook County Jail and it always interests me to hear a bit of its history

Roxy Hart & Velma Kelly!

Ok but I _really_ want to see Stoned History next!

Two of my fav people!!!

Minka Kelly and her cheekbones stab me in the heart everytime

Jane Levy and Emma Stone could play sisters in a movie.

I'd ship these two, but I'm pretty sure they already did it for me.

This is both hilarious and ignorant at the same time... Loved it!!!

Love everything about this

Weow Katara really grew up

This event is one of the rare examples in history of how patriarchy and sexism actually works against the favor of men, and why gender equality is important going forward, for a better society and a just system.

"Pasadena, etc" hahaha

8:55 kfkfkfkf the face of the lady on the left when she did a smoke ring pls