We spoke w/ hotwonhulu stars and executive producers iamwandasykes and ikebarinholtz about creating the series and saying “yes!” to working with the legendary MelBrooks.
If you’d said to any Mel Brooks fan even three years ago that we’d finally be getting a long-awaited sequel to History of the World, Part I, the epic parody film that took audiences through all of human history, they’d likely have called you crazy. But, in 2023, that vision is finally a reality, and the much anticipated History of the World, Part II, has finally arrived, shepherded in by writers, stars, and executive producers Wanda Sykes and Ike Barinholtz.
COLLIDER: Obviously, Mel Brooks is such a massive influence on film and television, since the days of Sid Caesar. So for you guys, what was your first exposure to Mel Brooks, whether it was a movie or something on television?WANDA SYKES: Yeah. Blazing Saddles, was that the first one?SYKES: Yeah. I'm going to say yeah, probably Blazing Saddles for me also.
And as far as the sketches go, obviously there are some things in here that people have been waiting a long time to see. But in terms of everything else, because everything else is completely new and completely hysterical, what did the top-down of building that look like? How did you decide what was going to end up in this project?
SYKES: And also like, the sketch from the movie of the, "I give you these 15—ah, 10 Commandments!" We said, let's continue something from the Bible as far as to make it one of our tent poles, as we called them. BARINHOLTZ: Nothing that we shot. Yeah. No, no, no. We ended up overwriting and shooting the perfect amount, I would say. But there are so many premises and periods and characters that we have more than enough for Season 2.Just do Part III. Yeah.You two [are] in a number of the sketches, not just the longer running ones, so were there any that you were particularly attached to? Was it Shirley Chisholm? Was it Ulysses S.
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