Mel Brooks is right at the center of a new featurette that goes behind-the-scenes on the set of History of the World: Part II. In a Variety exclusive, the acclaimed producer and director is jokingly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jay Ellis plays Jesus of Nazareth in History of the World, Part II. (Photo by: Patrick Wymore/Hulu) Jump ahead 40 years, and ...

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It shouldn't be to anyone's surprise when Hulu announced a follow-up to Mel Brooks' 1981 classic History of the World: Part I into an eight-episode event for Part II that executive producers and stars ...

40 years later and Mel Brooks is still raring to go in “History of the World Part 2.” In an exclusive featurette (see below) from the sketch comedy series shared with Variety, the comedy legend says, ...

Recognizing the inevitably hit-miss nature of sketch comedy, the main question for “History of the World, Part II” is whether the Hulu series yields enough good stuff to justify this extension of the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The creators of History of The World, Part II kept recent events out of ...

As obnoxious as the phrase “cancel culture” might be, it’s not unreasonable to assume that some skits might not have passed the smell test when Hulu‘s History of the World Part II was in development.

Just like history, comedy sometimes repeats itself — but in the case of History of the World, Part II we're not complaining. The long-awaited sequel to Mel Brooks's 1981 sketch comedy favorite ends ...