![]() It’s hard to believe that the same series contains a clever pun on the Kama Sutra originally being a book about sex positions and soup (Kama Soup-tra) and an entire three minutes of soldiers vomiting in a boat on D-Day. Though all of these actors perform their parts and lines incredibly well, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the lines themselves are actually funny.īrooks is known for his comedy method of throwing anything at the wall and seeing what sticks, and that is incredibly obvious in this series. The show has several big-name writers such as Nick Kroll (“Big Mouth”) and Wanda Sykes (“The New Adventures of Old Christine”) and actors Jack Black (“Kung Fu Panda”) and Dove Cameron (“Liv and Maddie”). Given how legendary “History of the World: Part I” was, there was no doubt that the revival would be incredibly popular. However, after 42 years, Mel Brooks has at long last returned to bring “History of the World: Part II” to life through a new television series. At the end of the movie, there are jokes hinting at a sequel that presumably would never come. ![]() ![]() Although the movie features several hilarious bits that are still referenced to this day and Brooks is widely considered a comedy legend, it is also notorious for being potentially problematic with its shock humor and poor portrayal of people of Color, women and religious minorities in the U.S. In 1981, comedian Mel Brooks (“Spaceballs”) released “History of the World: Part I,” a film that retells foundational historical events through a comedic lens, offering alternative and blatantly incorrect explanations of how they happened. ![]()
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