If you are like me and watched History of the World: Part 1 when you were a kid, then you have anxiously been waiting for the sequel ever since then. Well, thanks to Hulu, it is finally here as a 4-day, 8-hour event starting today! Each day, we will get two new episodes until the epic conclusion on Thursday.
The first episode starts off with Mel Brooks, the man who has been around since Adam and Eve. Now you know why he gave such an accurate account of history in his 1981 movie.
And on that note, he told the current producers that they could do what they wanted. However, no repeats. And they broke that rule, but I am not allowed to tell you how they did.
Anyways, after we get to see Brooks looking as sexy as he did in 1981, it is time to watch history come alive! They start it off with the Civil War and an appearance by the great President Abraham Lincoln! This is one of the sketches that will make more than one appearance during the event.
From there, we go to the Kama Sutra, being pitched as a book. Did you know it wasn’t only a sex book?
Next up, we go to Russia to meet the Romanovs before they were killed off. The Tsar’s daughter Anastasia got away during the mass shooting of her family, and we finally find out what happened to her as her story goes on for a few segments.
If that is not hot enough, it is time for fire to be created. But it is not as on fire as William Shakespeare’s writers’ room.
And now it is time for episode 2, and what a day it is. It is D-Day, and it is time for bathroom humor.
They will go there with Jesus because why not! No one is safe in this History of the World.
Before we go for the night, we get to meet Shirley Chisholm, whose life is like a sitcom as they turn the first African American woman who runs for President’s life into one. And it works.
Everything works! Well, except for a bit they do tomorrow, but I will tell you about that then.
Seriously, good things come to those who wait, and something really good came from waiting.
Especially for the cast, which includes Wanda Sykes, Nick Kroll, Ike Barinholtz, Pamela Adlon, Tim Baltz, Zazie Beetz, Jillian Bell, Quinta Brunson, Dove Cameron, D’Arcy Carden, Parvesh Cheena, Ronny Chieng, Rob Corddry, Danny DeVito, David Duchovny, Hannah Einbinder, Jay Ellis, Josh Gad, Kimiko Glenn, Brandon Kyle Goodman, Jake Johnson, Richard Kind, Johnny Knoxville, Lauren Lapkus, Jenifer Lewis, Poppy Liu, Joe Lo Truglio, Jason Mantzoukas, Ken Marino, Jack McBrayer, Zahn McClarnon, Charles Melton, Kumail Nanjiani, Brock O’Hurn, Andrew Rannells, Emily Ratajkowski, Sam Richardson, Nick Robinson, Seth Rogen, Sarah Silverman, Timothy Simons, J.B. Smoove, David Wain, Taika Waititi, Reggie Watts, and Tyler James Williams. I am sure they all grew up watching the movie, and now they get to appear in the hilarious sequel.
If you are going to go enormous, then you have to have a cast that is as big as the biggest dinosaur.
Ever since I was a little girl and my dad introduced me to History of the World Part 1, I have anxiously been awaiting the sequel so that I could watch Jews in Space.
So when Hulu announced that they were finally giving us History of the World Part 2, I am like I am finally going to see it.
But alas, my hopes were crushed when the streaming service released the teaser for Mel Brooks’ 4-night event that starts on March 6th because the Jews never leave the earth.
Just like Space Balls 3: The Search for 2, Brooks has promised to give me something that will never happen. I guess I will have to watch one of his movies so that I can laugh instead of cry.
About a year ago, Hulu announced that they were teaming up with Mel Brooks to finally give us History of the World: Part II. Since then, we have not heard a lot about it.
However, this week, Marla Gibbs shared a photo on the set with Wanda Sykes, who is a writer on the show, and Kym Whitley. The three women and a mystery actor (no one I know could place him) are telling Shirley Chisholm’s story. She is the first African-American woman Congressperson and the first African-American to run for President in a majority party.
There is still no word when the series will debut. But this image makes me even more excited about it. Do you feel the same way?
Back when I was a kid, my dad showed me History of the World Part I. I was glued to the screen for every second of it. So when they showed the preview for History of the World Part II, I believed it was real. I spent most of my life believing it was real.
Then one day, the lightbulb went off. And I realized it was a joke. My heart was broken. I felt dumb and naive.
It turns out I wasn’t so dumb and naive. That is because Hulu teamed up with Mel Brooks to give us an 8-episode sequel to the 1981 movie.
Brooks, 95, is going to write and produce the follow-up. “I can’t wait to once more tell the real truth about all the phony baloney stories the world has been conned into believing are History!” Brooks said.
He will not be doing it alone. He will be joined in the writers’ room with Nick Kroll, Wanda Sykes, Ike Barinholtz, David Stassen, and Kevin Salter.
According to Variety, production is slated to begin in the Springtime, as in for Hitler. Wrong Brooks film.
Seriously, this is the best television news I have heard in a really long time. I just hope they don’t fuck it up. Or I will go all Spanish Inquisition on them.
We keep hearing that we need to practice social distancing. Many people cannot understand why we need to do this.
Mel Brooks’ son, Max Brooks, made a video explaining why this is important with his dad. While Max will be fine because he is only 47, his 93-year-old dad will not be. If his dad gets it, he might give it to Carl Reiner, 97, who will transmit it to Dick Van Dyke, 94. That would take out three comedic greats, and we need them to be with us when we finally get through this. Which we will.
The point of this video is not about you. It is about the people we love who are more vulnerable to it. We must keep Mel Brooks alive, so he can finally make Spaceballs 3: The Search for 2. We have been waiting a long time for it. However, not as long as History of the World: Part 2. Who else besides me thought that was a real thing?
