History Main / TheAbridgedHistory

* Creator/PhilomenaCunk:
** ''Series/CunkOnBritain'' is a parody of sweeping history documentaries on Britain complete with the same methods done by presenters and even the same stock music, presented by Series/PhilomenaCunk.
** Similarly ''Series/CunkOnEarth'' parodies documentaries on world history.

* ''Series/CunkOnBritain'':
** A parody of sweeping history documentaries on Britain complete with the same methods done by presenters and even the same stock music, presented by Series/PhilomenaCunk.

* ''Series/SavedByTheBell'': In "The Gift", History Teacher Mr. Testaverde recaps all the material for the history exam speaking as quickly as possible, making it very difficult to understand him.

* InUniverse Example: In the ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' episode ''The Gift'' History Teacher Mr. Testaverde recaps all the material for the history exam and spoke as quickly as possible, making it difficult as possible to understand.
* ''Cunk On Britain''. A parody of sweeping history documentaries on Britain complete with the same methods done by presenters and even the same stock music, presented by Series/PhilomenaCunk.
** Similarly ''Cunk On Earth'' parodies documentaries on world history.

* One Div Zero: [[http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html "A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages"]].

* InUniverse Example: In the ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' episode The Gift History Teacher Mr. Testaverde recaps all the material for the history exam and spoke as quickly as possible.

* In Universe Example: In the ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' episode The Gift History Teacher Mr. Testaverde recaps all the material for the history exam and spoke as quickly as possible.

* ''WebVideo/HistoryOfTheEntireWorldIGuess'' is Bill Wurtz's abridged interpretation from history from the Big Bang to TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture.
* ''WebVideo/HistoryOfJapan'': It focuses on Japan specifically.

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* ''WebVideo/HistoryOfTheEntireWorldIGuess'' is Bill Wurtz's abridged interpretation from history from the Big Bang to TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture. There's also ''WebVideo/HistoryOfJapan'', which focuses on Japan specifically.

* WebAnimation/UnbiasedHistory is basically an abridged interpretation of AncientRome and in spite of the name, it actually is blatantly biased towards particular factions for laughs, sometimes even reinterpreting entire events in their favor.

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* ''WebVideo/{{Oversimplified}}'': [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin What did you expect]]?

* ''Series/DrunkHistory'' where comedians get drunk and narrate historical events to the best of their abilities which is acted out, with the actors lip-synching all the dialogue.
* ''Series/HistoryOfTheWorldPartII'' a sequel series to Part I

* ''Cunk On Britain''. A parody of sweeping history documentaries, presented by Series/PhilomenaCunk.

** ''A Memorable History of England, Comprising All the Parts You Can Remember, Including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings, and 2 Genuine Dates'': Published in 1930 with a cheeky LongTitle, making this trope OlderThanTelevision. The text covers only the memorable parts of English history and gives special attention to all the Good Things that happened to make England C. of E. and a Top Nation.

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* ''Bach, Beethoven, and the Boys'' by David W. Barber is a semi-serious take on this applied to the history of Music/ClassicalMusic; the history (largely biographies of major and/or interesting composers) is mostly accurate, but well-interspersed with jokes and silly footnotes.

* ''Series/CunkOnBritain''. A parody of sweeping history documentaries, presented by Franchise/PhilomenaCunk.

* The Creator/JackBlack movie ''Film/YearOne'' is something like this, with biblical stories.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}!'': It's centered on comedic sketches loosely based on historical events and topics.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}!'': A cartoon series.

** ''A Memorable History of England, Comprising All the Parts You Can Remember, Including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings, and 2 Genuine Dates'': Published in 1930 with a cheeky LongTitle, making this trope OlderThanTelevision.
** The two modern history sequels by different authors also qualify: ''Literature/NineteenEightyFourAndAllThat'' and ''NineteenSixtySixAndAllThat''.

* ''Literature/{{A Short History of Nearly Everything}}'' is a semi-serious take on this.

* ''Literature/AmericaTheBook''

* The Daily Show's ''[[Literature/AmericaTheBook America: The Book]]''

* ''Literature/TenSixtySixAndAllThat: A Memorable History of England, Comprising All the Parts You Can Remember, Including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings, and 2 Genuine Dates'': Published in 1930 with a cheeky LongTitle, making this trope OlderThanTelevision.
* Two modern history sequels to ''1066'' by different authors: ''[[Literature/NineteenEightyFourAndAllThat 1984 And All That]]'' and ''[[NineteenSixtySixAndAllThat 1966 And All That]]''.
* ''Literature/ItAllStartedWithColumbus'' by Richard Armour is a deliberate American homage to ''1066 and All That'', written "for those who, having perused a volume of history in school, swore they would never read another."
* ''Literature/DaveBarrySleptHere''
* Creator/DaveBarry did something similar with his "Year in Review" annual feature. He collected some of these into another book which also started off with an abridged history in the same style as ''Dave Barry Slept Here'' book.

* ''ComicBook/TheCartoonHistoryOfTheUniverse'' series by Larry Gonick. Although it does go quite a bit into actual history and facts and dates, the panels and commentary are drawn in a way that is meant to be both humorous and educational.

* OlderThanTelevision: ''[[Literature/TenSixtySixAndAllThat 1066 and All That]]: a Memorable History of England, Comprising All the Parts You Can Remember, Including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings and 2 Genuine Dates'' (1930)

Uncle trope to TheAbridgedSeries, which parodies history in a similar fashion. The aim of this trope is to entertain rather than educate, making plenty of {{Historical In Joke}}s and generally playing by the RuleOfFunny rather than sticking to boring facts. Genuine historical facts (the stranger the better) will be mixed in with debunked legends, anachronistic absurdities and HistoricalCharacterConfusion.

* ''A Short History Of Nearly Everything'' is a semi-serious take on this.
* The ''Literature/HorribleHistories'' series. As it is more {{edutainment}} than pure parody, the history is usually pretty accurate ([[DatedHistory for when the relevant book was written]]), but still mixed in with pretty merciless jokes.

* Cunk On Britain. A parody of sweeping history documentaries, presented by Franchise/PhilomenaCunk
* Series/HorribleHistories. Comedy sketch series, where each episode is an anthology of sketches about different historical eras

* ''[[Theatre/TheCompleteHistoryOfAmericaAbridged The Complete History of America (Abridged)]]'' and ''[[Theatre/TheCompleteMillenniumMusicalAbridged The Complete Millennium Musical (Abridged)]]'' both by The Creator/ReducedShakespeareCompany.

* [[http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html "A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages"]] from the blog One Div Zero.