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.
@@headphonic8 I know that. I'm just saying the right info just incase some people wanted to know more about what happened at the jail. A lot of people comment on these videos with the right info because people can sometimes become really interested in the stories.
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".
She was sentenced to death BUT was not killed! She got a make over and that helped her during the appeals process!! Look it up, it’s fascinating!!! Full name is: Sabella Nitti
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.
Every time that song gets stuck in my head, my brain gets stuck in a loop of "oh yes they both, oh yes they both, oh yes they both, oh yes they both..." I can't get out of the loop for like 30 seconds
F L wait....are you kidding?? they literally vomited in pails ON camera? and the producers actually decided to air those scenes?? wow. that's ridiculous. for so many reasons. first being: literally no one likes when tv+movies actually show the vomit when characters throw up. it's revolting and unnecessary. but add in the fact that it's real people actually throwing up real vomit...and it's even worse 🤢😵 glad i saw ur comment, so that i'm well informed if i decide to do a drunk history marathon haha 🙃👍🏻
broceratops1337 Yeah for sure. There were times they would get so drunk they couldn’t actually tell the story anymore and you could tell they had to go back later and record it because suddenly they start speaking perfectly again on the voice over and the last time you saw them they were vomiting on the floor and mumbling incoherently lol I’m glad they dialed it back because it was a bit too much.
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.
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!
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
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)
@@laurengoldfarb1023 i think there might be a lot of debate on how they determine this. I just read the Fantastiks ran for 42 years- is it a musical? How does Lion KIng beat Cats- Cats predates it. Did Cats stop running for many years?
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Yeah, It actually takes the whole night to get enough material to use. And for some reason they never remember it the next day. By which I mean they don't remember telling the story. They remember the interviewer being there and drinking, he ain't no Pill Cosby.
There have been a few vomits and occasionally they are finished while someone is laying on the floor. I don't think there have been any full pass outs though.
Hope that the expanded version of the episode touches on the fact that the 1975 production was received nearly that well, because it was ahead of its time in analyzing the nature of turning criminals into celebrities. By the time of the film, we'd seen how the OJ trial turned everybody involved into a celebrity, no matter how vile and undeserving. Hell, that trial is indirectly to blame for the disaster that is the Kardashians.
@@JamesBond-xx1lv I have to disagree. You need critical thinking skills and rational thought. Also, it would be beneficial to stop believing in myths plagarized from other older creation myths. You need ground trolls and whiskey.
The acting and lipsync was absolutely absolutely on point on this!!!!!!
It usually is, lmao (at least, imo)
That's how this series rolls :)
That’s exactly what I came to the comment section to type 😂
Hic.
@@bigdaddytahira2659 But they have to coordinate their speaking to the way the drunken storytellers do, so they are in a way, lipsyncing.
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.
Kennie Gamache these drunk histories are almost never accurate. Because.....they’re drunk.
@@headphonic8 I know that. I'm just saying the right info just incase some people wanted to know more about what happened at the jail. A lot of people comment on these videos with the right info because people can sometimes become really interested in the stories.
Thank you for that info-I’ll have to check out that book!
Kennie Gamache that's wild. Thanks for the info.
Thanks for the information, I appreciate it. The story is very interesting I’ll have to look into it more.
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".
She was sentenced to death BUT was not killed! She got a make over and that helped her during the appeals process!! Look it up, it’s fascinating!!! Full name is: Sabella Nitti
@@stephysteph9538 So Murderess Row actually did something right?
It doesn't give new meaning to anything, she hangs in the musical too...
hannerglossop It gives new meaning to the musical because it turns out it’s based on historical events...
She wasn't "innocent." She did kill her husband, but it was self defense.
I guess...they had it coming.
He only had himself to blame.
if you had been there, if you had seen it?
@@tizzadebayo5973 Surely you woulda done the same.
pop
I’m dying of laughter.
The actresses who lip synced are dead on👌😂
The synchronized hiccups were the best.
Kai Evans they can save a lot during editing but if the actresses was way off during recording the edit would still turn out weird
Christine Gustafson actors*
Lake Bell and Malin Akerman
Silk Spectre!
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.
Rylan C. Dude, they don’t claim to be accurate. They’re pissed.
Remember these peeps had been drunk lmao 😂
Rylan C. They were drunk pipe down
@@katnordy9313 I know they were drunk. I'm just saying what actually happened so people can be informed...chill
@@Xemzula I know they were drunk. I'm just saying what actually happened so people can be informed...chill
And then they both reached for the gun, oh yes oh yes oh yes they bo-
Kind of makes you question who was really pulling the strings 😁
oh yes, they both, oh yes, they both, reached for-
the gun the gun the gun the gun oh yes
They both reached for for the gun
Every time that song gets stuck in my head, my brain gets stuck in a loop of "oh yes they both, oh yes they both, oh yes they both, oh yes they both..." I can't get out of the loop for like 30 seconds
"the brave little women" sounds like a crossover of "little women" and "the brave little toaster"
It’s Toy Story but with American Girl dolls
The little woman toaster that could?
It is.
Bella Merchant I can't handle this comment 😂😂😂😂😂
"It's so dreadful to be poor," said Amy, the blender.
I mostly cringe when presenters are way too hammered to tell the story. These 2 got just the right amount of drunk. Hahahaha
I cringe when they obviously fake it like Jen Kirkman in any of her episodes... The one on Edith Wilson was the worst
F L wait....are you kidding?? they literally vomited in pails ON camera? and the producers actually decided to air those scenes?? wow. that's ridiculous. for so many reasons. first being: literally no one likes when tv+movies actually show the vomit when characters throw up. it's revolting and unnecessary. but add in the fact that it's real people actually throwing up real vomit...and it's even worse 🤢😵
glad i saw ur comment, so that i'm well informed if i decide to do a drunk history marathon haha 🙃👍🏻
@@_birdie that was before the show was picked up by CC. It used to be a web series only.
@@_birdie they didn't really show the actual vomit mostly, it's just face in a pail and the sound
broceratops1337 Yeah for sure. There were times they would get so drunk they couldn’t actually tell the story anymore and you could tell they had to go back later and record it because suddenly they start speaking perfectly again on the voice over and the last time you saw them they were vomiting on the floor and mumbling incoherently lol I’m glad they dialed it back because it was a bit too much.
the reporter lady did such a good ass job, the way she matched everything was hilarious.
Drew Post That actress is Minka Kelly... she’s repping us 39-year-olds well! 👍🏼❤️
Those two are so adorable, cuddling up while drunkenly explaining murdereress row
That’s the vibe!!!
Murder? Me too...
@@chefpaddy I loved that too 🤣
If you close you eyes when Mae talks. You’re listening to drunk Katara.
Her?
That's not just a joke, I had no idea she voiced Katara.
@@justbeyondthecornerproduct3540 WOW! mind = blown!
@@RidvanGER give credit to @Victoria Yost dude!
Or tinkerbell
Wich one of them is Mae?
She danced around his grave ... mere minutes after shooting him 😂
Corpse
I C O N I C
The way she said "Sabella Nitti" to her editor made coffee shoot out of my nose with laughter!
I will pay anything to have Jane Levy, Mae Whitman, Malin Akerman, Lake Bell and Minka Kelly do the Cell Block Tango.
+1 ! And thank you so much, I was looking for their names ^^
Thanks, I couldn't remember Malin's name.
Who plays Maureen?
Anynom all beautiful but Minka Kelly is breathtaking
Lake Bell, haven't seen her in awhile! Who's the female reporter? Oh, Minka Kelly how many parts has she played on this show?
What’s the moral of the story? Stay away from Jazz and Liquor and the men who play for fun
@Ofelia Gurdian WHEN WE BOTH REACHED FOR THE GUN
Understandable
Yeah, it's perfectly understandable.
comprehensible
Understandable
Hearing Katara drunk is the best thing ever💀
Could have sworn that was Eddie Redmayne in the thumbnail
Noodle I know right?! That is why I clicked!
True. Also Lake Bell is the love of my life.
Lmao I thought that too
Same
ME TOO
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.
I'm not saying that we need a Robert Sheehan edition of Drunk History but that's exactly what I'm saying
Robert already seems drunk just by being himself. I wonder what he would be like if he's drunk. 😂😂😂
You are absolutly right omfg.
Omg Yes yes yes!!!! That would be awesome.
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!
The production values in this series are just wonderful. The costumes, the sets, the lighting, the props - just top notch stuff.
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
Understandable! Understandable!
Oh that's perfectly understandable
Comprehensible, Comprehensible
Not a bit reprehensible
it’s so defensi-BULL
How're you feeling?
Very frightened
Are you sorry?
Are you kidding?
Jane and Mae hiccuping and Jane yelling at the end was the cherry on top of a hilarious sundae
Give them the old razzle dazzle
razzle dazzle em
2:58 all that I heard was "and we both reached for gun! " god Chicago is so good
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)
when she said that they both reached for the gun I immediately had the song in my head
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.
Mae always be Sandra Bullock's little girl in Hope Floats!!
All I see is Ann from arrested development!!
@@suetotten4767 "Her?"
or tinker bell 🤷🏾♀️
Or Katara
So, basically, blaming jazz in 1924 is no different than blaming video games in 2019.
We love a good lesbian redemption arc
Xan You need jesus
@@JamesBond-xx1lv ugh stop saying this under every comment dude
Arunima Tiwari you definitely need jesus
@@JamesBond-xx1lv Thanks but no thanks
Arunima Tiwari you need to reconsider. And jesus.
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.
Hahahaha
It's a mans world!!!
oh yes, oh yes, oh yes they both, oh yes they both reached for the gun
Can they make a drunk history, about drunk history?
Derek should get slightly more drunk than usual and recount the story of drunk history to a baby resting on a sleeping dog.
College Humor did an episode about that: th-cam.com/video/Eq__6Q5vk8w/w-d-xo.html
Mae and Jane are acting just a touch sapphic
Or is it just me
Hopefully
cuddledrunk, ain't you been it?
@@Laeiryn I mean I get cuddle drunk but I’m also sapphic
All I thought while I was watching this was "cOmE oN bABe wHy dOnt wE pAinT tHE tOwN, aNd aLl tHaT jAzZ"
my sexual identity is 'murderess'
Society has enough trouble accepting LGTQ+, I doubt they'll accept a praying mantis...
@@howHumam they don't have to accept anything without a head
You need jesus
@james why?
Moral of the story: stay away from jazz and liquor. *hiccup*
And the men who *hiccup* play for fun
I love how the actors even take in account the hiccups 😂😂
Correction: Phantom of the Opera is the longest running. Chicago is the second.
i thought it was Cats
Nope, the other Andrew Lloyd Weber Musical.
You need jesus
@@laurengoldfarb1023 i think there might be a lot of debate on how they determine this. I just read the Fantastiks ran for 42 years- is it a musical? How does Lion KIng beat Cats- Cats predates it. Did Cats stop running for many years?
malizooski1 You need jesus
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.
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.
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.
GoddessNeith it was a play in the 20’s too
How am I just now finding out Mae voiced Katara? Thanks fellow commenters.
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.
Have you seen Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist?!
I loved her in Zoe's Extraordinary Playlist. So sad that got axed :(
The continuous hiccuping just about killed me... I couldn’t stop laughing!
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!
Scruffy Daddy Derek is at prime cuteness in this episode
tru
eeew...
the way the reporter moved the typewriter thingy at the same time as the hiccup 8:18. iconic
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.
8:50 Velma is blowing circles of smoke and it's driving me crazy!!
1:59 has me in tears 😂😂
bruh I did my whole thesis on this. I AM HERE FOR THIS 👏🏻
"We're discussing Murderess Row."
"awe :) "
Are we not going to talk about how these are the hilarious actresses of Childrens Hospital?
I know, right?
www.imdb.com/title/tt9787570
Dead *pause* as hell
LOL
This is exactly what I took away from this episode.
Just found out about Drunk History this year. I am SO GLAD I did!🤣🤣
"Smoking in the Jail Cell, smoking in the jail cell.." that's now a song.
That editor actor had the best ”Sucking on fingers and laughing”-lipsync ever haha
Has anyone ever just threw up in one of these? Or even passed out maybe? That would be funny.
Yeah, It actually takes the whole night to get enough material to use. And for some reason they never remember it the next day. By which I mean they don't remember telling the story. They remember the interviewer being there and drinking, he ain't no Pill Cosby.
Season 1
Yup season 1 has some vomiting! Can’t remember if anyone passed out mid story..
EDIT: I only watch these while drunk.
There have been a few vomits and occasionally they are finished while someone is laying on the floor. I don't think there have been any full pass outs though.
Yeah my friend and one guy even took off his boxers and pants and pissed himself lol it was the arson episode look it up lol
Love this show...thanks for uploading...I never knew when it was on in comedy central😀👉😎👈
Never thought in my life I’d hear Katara get drunk and talk about history
0:12 that’s the zodiac killers pickup line
ya like jazz? but killing
Drunk Katara is so much fun you guys
Minka Kelly and her cheekbones stab me in the heart everytime
They should make drunk mythology!
I AGREE!!
Definitely one of the best episodes 😂
Mae was so putting the moves on her. I approve. 😂😃
8:53 when you discover a new talent half way through a scene
The hiccups though 😂😂😂
01:38 wtf?! Who is this gorgeous, brilliantly talented woman??
She´s legit brilliant at this.
Much love and respect!
martialme84 her name is Minka Kelly :)
@@Mayakran Thanks!
Chicago is so amazing..also it's weird how the celebrity of being a killer doesn't change over time
“Skinny little noses” that got me good😂
Hope that the expanded version of the episode touches on the fact that the 1975 production was received nearly that well, because it was ahead of its time in analyzing the nature of turning criminals into celebrities. By the time of the film, we'd seen how the OJ trial turned everybody involved into a celebrity, no matter how vile and undeserving. Hell, that trial is indirectly to blame for the disaster that is the Kardashians.
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.
Drunk History should make reaction videos of the narrators watching their re-enactments.
Yo Comedy Central-
Bring drunk history back.
We need accurate history that keeps people listening and NOW of all times is pretty good proof of that...
What are these drinks?! They look fun.
Did anyone else start singing "We Both Reached For The Gun" from the show???? LOL 🙈😂🇹🇹
All I hear is a drunk Tinkerbell, love it
There was actually an SNL skit about it in the 90s with Claire Danes, sadly it's not widely available
I love how this episode has literally ALL the actresses you never gave a fuck about.
**immediately watches Chicago after this**
This is an EPIC episode!
Roxy Hart & Velma Kelly!
Sha Shee You need jesus
James Bond I already have him
Oh well praise the lord
@@JamesBond-xx1lv I have to disagree. You need critical thinking skills and rational thought. Also, it would be beneficial to stop believing in myths plagarized from other older creation myths. You need ground trolls and whiskey.
I would love to see the actors behind the scenes, I literally would be like laughing SO MUCH.
Ah yes, black culture as a scapegoat. A timeless classic.
Uhhh... What?
@@DigitDesign Jazz
I see where you are coming from. But this is so silly, that sometimes you just have to roll with it. Smile a little.
Bruh
The synchronized hiccup killed me
7:35 She actually lived. Another lawyer managed to get her off.
I lost it when Jane got full on belligerent at the end "best fucking picture!! so sit down shut up"
Minka Kelly is ridiculously insanely beautiful. Also Katara FTW!!
This is both hilarious and ignorant at the same time... Loved it!!!
I'd ship these two, but I'm pretty sure they already did it for me.
damn this video has better production value than a lot of Neflix shows
My school is literally doing this musical this weekend, I play go to hell kitty for all you Chicago fans 😉
Lake Bell is soooooo underated as an actor.
Jane Levy and Emma Stone could play sisters in a movie.
I really Love this phenomenal presentation.
I play jazz. Never thought about how many murders I've caused...
8:38 I'm pretty sure the longest running musical on broadway is "Phantom of the Opera".
Ok but I _really_ want to see Stoned History next!
Omg drunk history is great but it's even better with 2 people