A series that skewers history with hilarity!

History Bites is a skit comedy show that asks, "What if television had been around for the past 5,000 years?"

Each episode explores an important historical event by channel surfing through news, sports, talk shows, commercials and game shows. The sports desk covers gladiator fights. Martha Stewart plans a Roman orgy. Pharaoh Ramses meets the press. A Mongol barbarian appears on Larry King. The X-Files delves into the latest plague. Cops are Knights.

By viewing ancient events through television parodies, History Bites connects our past to our present. Spoofing popular TV formats makes historical events as urgent as today's news; and it gives today's urgent news stories a historical context. Viewers discover that history does repeat itself and there are lessons to be learned from the past.

Another theme that flows through the series is that human history is dark, and the best time to be alive is right now. The world isn't going to hell in a hand basket. Far from it.

Finally, by using skit comedy and humour, the show entertains and informs us about our collective past.