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Drunk History is almost always a good time, but this video of Nichelle Nichols (as played by Raven Simone) time on Star Trek and her work with NASA is short, but awesome. It also includes the line from drunk narrator, Ashley Nicole Black, speaking as Martin Luther King Jr. (as played by Jaleel White), "No I'm Martin Luther King, I have no chill." Seriously everything about this is wonderful and funny. And because it's Drunk History, this exchange also happens: Ashley: So you know, they're filming Star Wars and it's great. Derek: Is that true? Ashley: Oh, my God. Also very good.  Ashley: So they're doing Star Trek. It's great. People love it.

I woke up this morning and for some reason was really, really missing a comedy pop culture video series that sadly ended pretty abruptly last December. Until recently, the Cracked website also had an active YouTube channel where every month for the last few years (since around 2011) they've produced a series called, After Hours . After several active years on YouTube the staff and producers for the Cracked website were fired, effectively ending the run of all their YouTube series in order to focus more fully on the website. Now I don't know what must've gone on behind closed doors over at Cracked, but I think cutting all their YouTube shows was a pretty fucking stupid idea. But, I'm probably biased. What I can say is that I really miss their brand of humor, their political statements and the stabs they took at analyzing and making light of pop culture. Specifically, After Hours. The After Hours series showed four friends sitting around a diner table debating pop c...