History Of The World, Part II: A meta facepalm of a sketch show

History Of The World, Part II review: Mel Brooks’ sketch show is meta facepalm

Headlined by the hard-working Ike Barinholtz, Nick Kroll, and Wanda Sykes, and narrated by Brooks, the cameo-packed series strings along sketches about Jesus, the Civil War, and the Russian Revolution, with one-off vignettes and filler. The action takes place more or less in the Mel Brooks Cinematic Universe, with winking allusions tothat land with a thud . When Nick Kroll’s whiny shtetl dweller Schmuck Mudman starts to quote Leo Bloom freaking out on Max Bialystock, it’s a meta-facepalm.

In the 1981 movie, Brooks burlesqued major epochs—the Roman Empire, the French Revolution, and so forth—through Boomer-era movie tropes: sword-and-sandal epic, Esther Williams–Busby Berkeley pool extravaganza, Rat Pack buddy flick. The scaled-down version for the series operates similarly: insert cast member or guest star in historical event, then parody TV show or internet phenomenon. So the Russian Revolution bits borrow from, and Instagram influencers.

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