Provocative but silly: 'History of the World, Part II' arrives on Hulu
Provocative but silly: 'History of the World, Part II' arrives on Hulu
Nick Kroll and Ike Barinholtz are behind the new eight-part Hulu series ‘History of the World, Part II,’ which is the sequel to the Mel Brooks film ‘History of the World, Part I.’ Kroll and Barinholtz join Morning Joe to discuss.
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Provocative but silly: ‘History of the World, Part II’ arrives on Hulu
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0 -> in 1981 comedy icon Mel Brooks released
3.24 -> his classic movie history of the World
5.22 -> Part One now 42 years after the original
8.599 -> Brooks and a new generation of comedians
11.16 -> putting their spin on history with an
13.019 -> eight-episode Hulu series titled history
15.599 -> of the World Part Two here's a clip
19.38 -> and
20.64 -> Hitler not
22.26 -> performance he had hoped for tonight the
25.32 -> master race isn't looking so masterful
27.539 -> very hard to perform at a high level
29.22 -> when you are losing a two-front war
32.82 -> oh no you know it really hurts when you
35.94 -> fall on the ice like that absolutely
37.92 -> Trish and that's going to wrap it up for
39.719 -> Adolf Hitler let's go to the floor and
41.76 -> see some scores and we're gonna follow
43.86 -> him into the kiss and cry booth and here
45.96 -> he is with his longtime coach Joseph
47.64 -> gerbils and his new bride Ava Braun and
50.16 -> they are throwing things at him in the
52.02 -> audience dad flowers and he's waiting
53.879 -> for the scores here they are
56 -> wow wow wow wow
59 -> as expected it's a festival of zeros
62.399 -> except for the French
64.88 -> cut it off right there joining us now
67.619 -> two of the show's executive producers
69.479 -> writers and stars the great Nick Kroll
71.76 -> and Ike baronholtz Nick also is a
74.159 -> director for the series guys we've been
75.54 -> waiting all morning for this it's so
76.979 -> good to see you yeah we're here can we
79.799 -> thank you for showing a Hitler clip by
81.42 -> the way yeah it's always fun to have
82.92 -> kids are open for you in the morning
87.259 -> so Nick let's go to the beginning of
89.52 -> this and how it came about obviously Mel
91.2 -> Brooks is a touchstone for so many
93.54 -> people especially for you guys in comedy
95.34 -> a hero I know I'm sure you loved history
97.86 -> of the World Part One he calls you is
100.079 -> that the way it happens let's work
101.759 -> together on something uh yeah he I got a
104.46 -> call uh that Mel was interested in doing
106.38 -> history World part two and and if I
108.119 -> wanted to help make it and and I it was
110.64 -> the fastest yes I've ever besides doing
112.619 -> Morning Joe yes
114.38 -> obvious good question and um and so uh I
118.32 -> called the Wanda Sykes uh to produce it
121.02 -> with me and then Ike baronholtz and his
122.82 -> writing partner Dave stassen
124.38 -> unfortunately Ike and Dave agreed and
127.979 -> and uh and so we we did that clip from
130.619 -> history the from the from our show
133.739 -> um is a call back to the original Hitler
135.78 -> on Ice in in the original film that Mel
138 -> made and we got to go into the dailies
140.22 -> uh in the archives uh and and pull
143.16 -> that's the actual clip of him skating uh
146.52 -> and then we pulled that moment where he
148.08 -> falls and and you know
160.64 -> that makes sense yeah it all makes sense
162.84 -> yeah so Ike I have to imagine for you it
164.7 -> was a quick yes too and also just the
167.34 -> fertile ground of like which moment in
169.86 -> history do you want to take which other
171.239 -> actors can we pull in to do it must have
173.28 -> been so fun well as Nick was asking me
175.319 -> in my mind I was like I will do a civil
177.12 -> war story I will play Ulysses S Grant
178.98 -> who's just trying to get a drink uh but
181.019 -> yeah again when you're calling someone
182.64 -> you're like hey do you want to spend two
183.959 -> days with your friends working on a Mel
185.58 -> Brooks joint there it could not say yes
187.739 -> fast enough so we just got a list of
189.959 -> killers uh Jack Black taika what's he
192.72 -> these Aussie beats Dove Cameron you guys
195.72 -> love dove Cameron you love her music
202.22 -> uh but it was just a reunion of a bunch
205.319 -> of uh friends of ours and I'm just gonna
207.36 -> tell a quick story yeah our still
209.159 -> photographer there's this guy named
210.48 -> Aaron and he said to me that he went to
212.94 -> go see his doctor and his doctor is an
214.86 -> older man and his doctor said what are
216.42 -> you working on he said history of the
217.44 -> World Part Two and his doctor took his
218.76 -> glasses off and kind of sat down and
220.44 -> said when I was a young boy in Iran a
224.34 -> man would come with a suitcase that had
226.44 -> VHS tapes in it and one of those was
228.78 -> history of the World Part One and my
230.76 -> brothers and I watched it for years the
232.98 -> man would come back and we said what is
234.48 -> part two coming out now we can finally
237.48 -> say doing it for him or doing it for him
239.4 -> try to describe if you can the writer's
243 -> room for this project
245.099 -> well it was over Zoom uh largely because
248.04 -> we were writing this in the middle of
249.299 -> the pandemic mostly prisoners yes
253.319 -> um and we and we we got an incredible
256.68 -> group of of writers to come in and and
258.9 -> and sculpt this show and and Mel would
261.6 -> participate the scariest thing is trying
263.82 -> to like write material uh and then
266.28 -> present it to Mel because he was
267.9 -> involved at every stage of this uh and I
270.419 -> we did a read through of a bunch of
272.04 -> sketches and uh Mel uh came on and said
275.699 -> I I you know I liked the musical numbers
277.86 -> because you can't do Mel Brooks Project
279.24 -> without some musical numbers he said I
281.1 -> like the musical numbers and I like some
283.259 -> of the reads uh which is very funny and
286.56 -> then and then he said at the end we're
288.9 -> going to get some letters about this and
290.94 -> that's good
292.38 -> um now he's still talking about letters
294.06 -> yeah
295.82 -> but but it speaks to a larger thing
298.199 -> about what Mel wanted out of the show
300.06 -> which is it says continue to be
301.74 -> provocative uh Mel Brooks's work is
304.02 -> always provocative but always kind of
306.479 -> silly as well and that was sort of a
308.52 -> goal for us is to try to you know make
310.32 -> something that was very funny and and
312.24 -> and talking a social satire but never
315.06 -> taking itself too seriously so when you
316.8 -> say he said letters that proves that
318.84 -> he's actually 98 not 90. yeah exactly
321.18 -> right he did tell us though he said
322.56 -> don't be afraid to make dirty jokes and
325.8 -> we really took that to heart it's
327.78 -> absolutely disgusting yeah it is let's
329.82 -> watch another clip here this is where
331.32 -> Nick offers his interpretation of Judas
336.06 -> so what'd you think of the show
339.36 -> not for me well Jesus loved it please
342.3 -> Jesus loves everything the guy can't
344.34 -> stop saying oh I love this he's just
346.199 -> looking for followers look at Jesus over
348.3 -> there look at him absolutely whooping
351.06 -> down that bacon cheeseburger oh it looks
353.58 -> so good bacon cheeseburger hold on
355.74 -> that's not Kosher wait none of the food
358.259 -> here is kosher oh please let him sin
361.02 -> whoa whoa whoa whoa hold the
363.06 -> phones I just ate a bacon wrapped
365.52 -> scallop and baby back ribs you better
367.5 -> tell me none of this kosher
373.61 -> [Music]
375.5 -> I can understand why you're pissed
377.52 -> because something is going on with this
379.259 -> Jesus guy he's trying to phase out his
381.479 -> Judaism
382.5 -> I mean JB Smoove Richard kind obviously
387.3 -> a little nod to Larry David there yeah
388.86 -> just a small
394.38 -> very subtle you'll you'll get some
396.9 -> letters
397.88 -> so how did the process go to pick which
400.68 -> historical figures to be represented I
402.419 -> mean there really matched a couple of
404.28 -> them there's Shakespeare there's
405.6 -> Rasputin there's singing Stalin uh
408.479 -> played by Jack Black talk to us how that
410.52 -> hat came about well you know Nick and
413.22 -> Juan and I each kind of had ideas of who
415.08 -> we wanted to do I wanted to play us
416.88 -> Grant he was one of our hottest
418.5 -> presidents we can all agree on that for
420.479 -> sure uh Nick had in his head this
422.58 -> character schmuck budman and we want to
424.8 -> do a huge Russian Revolution there you
426.72 -> go storyline and Wanda was very adamant
428.819 -> she's like I want to play Shirley
429.9 -> Chisholm she's inspiring but also very
431.88 -> funny and then along the way we would
433.68 -> just kind of think of like what is a
435.66 -> funny situation oh writer's room with
438.36 -> Shakespeare where he's a nightmare boss
440.039 -> let's get Josh Gad perfect uh so it
443.88 -> really was just it lined up which is
445.38 -> what characters we created and just
447.24 -> people that wanted to come and play it
448.8 -> and and you know like uh taika ytt plays
451.38 -> Freud and it's his master class so it's
453.66 -> finding the alchem me of what is a funny
455.819 -> character and also like a genre that
457.68 -> would be interesting to see it in
459.479 -> um Kublai Khan and Marco Polo uh and
463.919 -> Kublai Khan does a commercial for
465.919 -> concestry.com because we're all pretty
469.319 -> much related to him on some level
470.699 -> possibly uh so we really tried to you
472.979 -> know take a historical person or
475.38 -> situation and say how can we make this
477.539 -> very stupid and I think most of the time
479.639 -> we succeed I don't want to give away too
481.319 -> much but one of the great Strokes of
482.639 -> Genius George Wallace the great comedian
485.099 -> playing yes George Wallace the Governor
488.28 -> from Alabama
491.18 -> it was we we tried to do casting
494.16 -> wherever we could see it's so good it's
498 -> so good and your fans will be happy to
500.039 -> know there's a little Gil Faison tucked
502.199 -> away in the show and I'm not going to
503.46 -> say anything else that's all that's it I
505.8 -> know the morning Joe fans are the
507.96 -> crossover is massive with gilpaison oh
511.44 -> was that just me
513.02 -> you know know it's kind of incredible
515.58 -> when you think back to the original You
518.219 -> Know Carl Reiner Mel Brooks 2000 year
520.86 -> old man the root of that and what it's
523.2 -> grown into stuff like this and more much
526.68 -> more for sure I mean it's a his
528.66 -> influence Mel and and Carl and but Mel's
531.54 -> influence on all of us was is huge and
534 -> and it made casting the show a lot
535.86 -> easier because we could call up Johnny
538.019 -> Knoxville Johnny called us and was like
540.36 -> Hey I'm a huge Mel Brooks fan if you
542.58 -> need anything I was like great and we
544.8 -> were like well then he should be
546.12 -> Rasputin because who who else was who
549 -> tried to kill as people tried to kill as
551.22 -> much as Rasputin as Johnny Knoxville so
553.68 -> we did Jack grasp uh and it's very and
558.12 -> so it's filled as much as possible with
560.279 -> people like that who had Sarah Silverman
561.959 -> was like if you need anything and also
563.399 -> we were able to cast the show if we
565.2 -> don't win a Kennedy Center Honor for the
566.7 -> show we have fit
568.519 -> you're on your way you're right before
570.54 -> we let you go by the way we have to
571.86 -> congratulate this man he is the newly
574.62 -> crowned champion of Celebrity Jeopardy
578.86 -> [Applause]
583.399 -> we were watching at home I said look at
585.54 -> Ike go this guy's good now you're under
587.22 -> the Tournament of Champions we're the
588.6 -> stakes only get higher yeah hey if
591.66 -> Johnny Gilbert retires I think yeah that
594.24 -> was my audition tape right there nailed
595.98 -> it guys congrats on this series it is so
598.14 -> funny the first four episodes of history
599.82 -> of the World Part Two are streaming now
602.04 -> on Hulu Nick Kroll Ike baronholtz good
604.74 -> to see you guys thanks so much for
606 -> having us thank you we'll be right back
607.38 -> with more Morning Joe
608.21 -> [Music]
619.459 -> thank you
623.34 -> [Music]
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyWFpU0zDsU