Ed Helms

All right, a quick crash course on the French Revolution before we get to our main event here.

It all started because France was basically broke.

The peasants were starving and the monarchy was still out there throwing lavish parties.

Picture an episode of Succession where they all go to a rave in powdered wigs.

So the French people were just finally like, enough.

This is enough.

And they stormed the Bastille and they decided maybe government shouldn't be run exclusively by rich douchebags.

Good.

A good policy.

Rich douchebags like historically, have they have any of them nailed it?

It's rough.

It's rough out there for the populations run by rich douchebags.

Well, cut to a couple of years later now and the revolutionaries have taken power and King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and their kids are basically grounded.

They're under house arrest in the Tuileries Palace in the heart of Paris.

And the revolutionaries are frantically trying to reinvent their entire system of government, which is no small task.

Marie Antoinette, of course, famous for the phrase, let them eat cake.

Darn it.

Which is a very rude thing to say when people are starving and they can't get bread.

She didn't say it.

I'm so sorry.