history of the world part 2

Decades of percolating ideas in comedy legend’s Mel Brooks‘ head are about to hit Hulu in the follow-up to Brooks’ History of the World Part 1, the aptly named History of the World Part 2. It’s going to be as chock full of as many cameos from the funniest and most famous folks as the show can possibly fit in as you saw in the recently released “teaser”.

In fact, the teaser clocks in at almost 2 minutes, which, in most cases, counts as a full trailer making the so-called “History of the World Part 2 Trailer” more akin to a sequel, especially since it gives an even greater scope of the high flying, somewhat historically accurate (maybe?) antics that Brooks along with Wanda Sykes, Nick Kroll, and Ike Barinholtz dive into with utter abandon including Shakespeare’s Writers’ Room to Sigmund Freud’s Masterclass.

Take a gander for yourself here, then look for the premiere of History of the World Part 2 on Hulu on Mon. Mar. 6th.

Over two scores ago, Mel Brooks unveiled History of the World Part 1 on the silver screen and broke new ground on how silly and absurd you could get when satirizing historical events. So much more history has happened since the film’s release in 1981 (including how Tinseltown works) and, perhaps, it’ll be worth the wait to see Brooks, still sharp at his advanced age, and his take on things these days.

Also, Part 2 is kind of a sequel as it’s an 8 part series to be released on Hulu, though it seems like it’s a much bigger production with a main cast of Mel Brooks, Wanda Sykes, Nick Kroll, and Ike Barinholtz and several cornucopias of cameos including:

Pamela Adlon, Tim Baltz, Zazie Beetz, Jillian Bell, Quinta Brunson, Dove Cameron, D’Arcy Carden , Ronny Chieng, Rob Corddry, Danny DeVito, David Duchovny, Hannah Einbinder, Jay Ellis, Josh Gad, Kimiko Glenn, Brandon Kyle Goodman, Jake Johnson, Richard Kind, Johnny Knoxville, Lauren Lapkus, Jenifer Lewis, Poppy Liu, Joe Lo Truglio, Jason Mantzoukas, Ken Marino, Jack McBrayer, Zahn McClarnon, Charles Melton, Kumail Nanjiani, Brock O’Hurn, Andrew Rannells, Emily Ratajkowski, Sam Richardson, Nick Robinson, Seth Rogen, Sarah Silverman, Timothy Simons, J.B. Smoove, David Wain, Taika Waititi, Reggie Watts, and Tyler James Williams.

Could this end up being Hulu’s own I Think You Should Leave? Maybe it will and we certainly hope so (and the teaser is promising). Go see for yourself here, then look towards the premiere on Mar. 6th on Hulu with episodes being release throughout that very week.