{"id":559051,"date":"2023-03-03T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/history-of-the-world-part-ii-ike-barinholtz-on-mel-brooks-advice-and-a-potential-part-iii\/"},"modified":"2023-03-03T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T15:15:00","slug":"history-of-the-world-part-ii-ike-barinholtz-on-mel-brooks-advice-and-a-potential-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/history-of-the-world-part-ii-ike-barinholtz-on-mel-brooks-advice-and-a-potential-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018History of the World, Part II\u2019: Ike Barinholtz on Mel Brooks\u2019 Advice and a Potential Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a21ed488c6ae\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a21ed488c6ae\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/history-of-the-world-part-ii-ike-barinholtz-on-mel-brooks-advice-and-a-potential-part-iii\/#%E2%80%98History_of_the_World_Part_II_Ike_Barinholtz_on_Mel_Brooks_Advice_and_a_Potential_Part_III\" >\u2018History of the World, Part II\u2019: Ike Barinholtz on Mel Brooks\u2019 Advice and a Potential Part III<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98History_of_the_World_Part_II_Ike_Barinholtz_on_Mel_Brooks_Advice_and_a_Potential_Part_III\"><\/span>\u2018History of the World, Part II\u2019: Ike Barinholtz on Mel Brooks\u2019 Advice and a Potential Part III<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <em>History of the World, Part II<\/em> began with a call from Mel Brooks to Nick Kroll. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cIt\u2019s the craziest thing in my life,\u201d Kroll recalls, adding, \u201cMel Brooks is more important to me than anybody, so to get that call was like an out-of-body experience.\u201d From there, Kroll reached out to Wanda Sykes, Ike Barinholtz and his writing partner David Stassen. Together, the foursome, with Brooks, have hatched an update to Brooks\u2019 seminal 1981 film, <em>The History of the World, Part 1.<\/em> Now, 42 years later,<em> Part II <\/em>will make its debut on Hulu as a four-night, eight episode event beginning March 6. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Like its predecessor, the sketch <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> offers its audience a tour through history, though this time the 96-year-old Brooks stars alongside Kroll, Sykes, Barinholtz and a who\u2019s who of guest stars. Among the latter are Pamela Adlon, Quinta Brunson, Dove Cameron,\u00a0Danny DeVito,\u00a0Jay Ellis, Josh Gad, Johnny Knoxville, Charles Melton, Kumail Nanjiani, Andrew Rannells, Emily Ratajkowski, Sam Richardson, Nick Robinson, Seth Rogen, Sarah Silverman and Taika Waititi, to name just a few.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Ahead of the series\u2019 premiere, Barinholtz spoke candidly about courting the aforementioned talent, collaborating virtually and working with his hero: \u201cI mean, movies were not funny before him,\u201d he says of Brooks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>So, how did <em>History of the World: Part II <\/em>come about for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Like most good things in Hollywood, it was a phone call from Nick Kroll. I\u2019ve known Nick for a very long time. Do you remember they made a TV show based off of the Geico caveman [called\u00a0<em>Cavemen<\/em>]? Well, we both auditioned for it. He got it, whatever. I guess he had a better take. (<em>Laughs<\/em>.) But we kept in touch after that. And then he reached out to my partner Dave Stassen and me about this opportunity. He was like, \u201cI\u2019ve got this show with Mel Brooks,\u00a0<em>History of the World<em>: Part II<\/em><\/em>.\u201d And obviously I was\u00a0all\u00a0in, but I was just like, \u201cOh, interesting, keep talking. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Oh, OK. Mel Brooks, I guess \u2026\u201d (<em>Laughs<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>Was Wanda Sykes already involved at that point?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Yeah, Nick had already partnered up with Wanda, who I\u2019d known for years. And then we all spent many months talking amongst ourselves about what we think this could be, and we kind of just kept saying, \u201cIt should just be like the movie.\u201d Now, I\u2019ve watched that movie, no joke, 100 times in my life. I know it all by heart and one thing I just thought was so cool about the movie is that you had some things, like the French Revolution, that lasted 20 minutes, and then you had things, like The 10 Commandments, which lasted one minute. We were like, \u201cWe should do that.\u201d So, we decided on the four or five stories we wanted to give a little more real estate to and then we figured we\u2019d do a ton of one-off sketches. And it was amazing. I have such reverence for Mel and the film, and I\u2019m also a very, very big fan of history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>As we saw in your <em>Celebrity Jeopardy<\/em> travails\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Oh, I\u2019m obsessed. It\u2019s the only subject I did well in in school, and now every podcast I listen to is about history and almost every book I read is about history. I just love it. So, the thought of being able to do all of these sketches \u2026 Oh, you want Teddy Roosevelt? Got it. You want to play Ulysses S. Grant? Can do. And then we started the writing process and that\u2019s always a very intimate thing and you never know exactly how it\u2019s going to go. You may know someone <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>ly or you\u2019ve worked with them a little and then, all of a sudden, you\u2019re in a writer\u2019s room and you\u2019re like, \u201cThis person is a crazy person and I need to not be with him.\u201d (<em>Laughs<\/em>.) Fortunately, it was just the opposite with Nick and Wanda. And then there was the Mel of it all. Every week or so, you\u2019d get Mel on a Zoom and you\u2019d have him give you a couple of quick notes and then just be Mel Brooks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>What does a Mel Brooks note look like?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    First, having him laugh at something you pitch is the greatest thing in the world. You\u2019re just like, \u201cI can die now. I did it.\u201d Thankfully, he didn\u2019t give too many comedy notes, but there were times where we pitched him things that were fairly esoteric, like, \u201cDid you know about <em>this<\/em> guy?\u201d And he was like, \u201cJust play the hits.\u201d And he was absolutely right. We were still able to get some voices that you haven\u2019t really heard a lot or some POVS that you normally don\u2019t get, but we\u2019re not spending a lot of time saying to the audience, like, \u201cThis is the person who invented the combustion engine, which was important.\u201d We needed to make sure the show was accessible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>In many ways, that note is a reminder that you should be making mass-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eal entertainment, which, in some ways, is a throwback to Mel Brooks\u2019 era.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Yeah, but we should actually still want the masses. The masses gave us a common culture, and that\u2019s disappeared a bit now. There are so many different things to watch that you could sit with four people and each person, every 10 seconds, could be like, \u201cHave you seen this?\u201d \u201cHave you seen that?\u201d And the answer would be, \u201cNo.\u201d The volume of shows, good shows, is staggering. I watched a show called <em>Cunk on Earth<\/em> last night, and I was crying laughing, but I\u2019d never even heard of it before. So, it would be great to get back to a place where people are seeing the same thing, so that they can talk about it and have common references and stuff. Now, will that be <em>History of the World<\/em>? Who knows? Will we ever have it again? Who knows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>The other piece of a project like this is that you\u2019re tasked with enlisting all of your famous friends. How comfortable were you with that part, and what did the process entail?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    I remember we were meeting with the network or something about casting early on, and Nick says, \u201cYou guys are lucky because Ike Barinholtz and I have spent the last 10 years doing favors for everyone. So, now, it\u2019s coming the other way!\u201d (<em>Laughs<\/em>.) \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>It\u2019s payback time\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Exactly, and what we kept saying with the show is that it has to be big. You\u2019re literally talking about the history of the world. And we\u2019re also doing a TV sequel to a film that had a huge budget 42 years ago\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>Without such a budget, presumably?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Yes, without that budget. (<em>Laughs<\/em>.) But we knew a big part of making it feel big would be in the casting, and so we were very ambitious. It was also very important to us that we were telling all kinds of stories. It couldn\u2019t just be, like, \u201cThis is three white dudes\u2019 guide to history, don\u2019t worry about it.\u201d And it couldn\u2019t be just popping diverse actors into white centric storylines or Eurocentric storylines, but really also trying to find stories and POVs from people of color. In the end, I think we cast 300 parts in the show, which is wild. I want to give our casting people, like Tara David, an Oscar for this, even though it\u2019s not a film. And it wasn\u2019t just our friends. It was people we didn\u2019t know, too. We were calling people\u2019s reps and really pounding the pavement, selling people on the project. We were also dealing with the COVID of it all. This was still pretty heavy Covid, so there was a lot of, \u201cThis person just dropped out, we\u2019ve got to call that person.\u201d The casting was probably the hardest and most stressful part.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>It seems like you had a lot of name writers come through, too<\/strong>. <strong>How did you go about casting that room?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Oh, it was an all-star lineup. We had folks like Ana Fabrega come in because we were just huge fans of <em>Los Espookys<\/em> and her writing and just her odd look at the world. And Guy Branum, who if we were all put on earth for a reason, you could argue he was put on earth to write the sketch TV show version of <em>History of the World. <\/em>We got Lance Crouther, who was Chris Rock\u2019s old writer and he was Pooty Tang, and to have him around and get his POV on stuff was amazing. Janelle James gave us a few weeks in the room right as <em>Abbott Elementary <\/em>was coming out, and it was amazing to watch, over Zoom, her kind of realize that she was becoming incredibly famous. Adam Countee [who wrote on <em>The Mindy Project<\/em> with Barinholtz] came for a few weeks, and Joe Mande. All these amazing writers would come and some were with us for three, four months and some would just come for a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>The room was largely virtual, which, I have to presume, is an added challenge, particularly in comedy?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Yeah, when it comes to story breaking, Zoom is not good. You really need to be in the room with people. It requires such patience and discipline, and if you\u2019re on a Zoom, it\u2019s just so easy to check out. So, we did our best. We really tried to run a really tight but pleasant ship, where it was like, the [Zoom] room starts at 10:15 a.m. and we\u2019re going to take a break about 90 minutes later, and then we\u2019re going to take a proper lunch break where we want people to leave. Sometimes people were like, \u201cEh, we\u2019ll just work through lunch.\u201d No, you need to shut your shit off and eat your sandwich and go on TikTok or whatever. It\u2019s also very important that, unless there\u2019s something catastrophic going on, we end at five o\u2019clock. I find that on Zoom, you get diminished returns. But just in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>, I also think it is very important for writers, especially comedy writers, not to always be in the room. Your whole fucking job is to relate to people and come up with things that they understand and they can relate to and if you are just in a writer\u2019s room, you\u2019re not going to get that. So, it\u2019s important to go home and be with your kids, go on a date, go out to dinner, go watch a show and we were very regimented about that. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>You are making comedy in a more sensitive cultural environment. Do you find yourself checking yourself either pitching or in the writers room in ways that you wouldn\u2019t have when you were starting out?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Yes, in the sense that, first of all, you\u2019re on Zoom, at least for\u00a0<em>History of the World,<\/em>\u00a0which is, you never know. But if you\u2019ve built a good room where people aren\u2019t reactionary and they understand what we\u2019re doing. And we had a little code in that room, where would say, \u201cThat makes me feel a little itchy,\u201d and if someone said itchy, we\u2019d stop and talk about it. The rooms that get in trouble are the ones where the showrunner is waiting to go off on the younger staff, or the younger staff is, like, \u201cI\u2019m gonna Tweet about my boss.\u201d I remember hearing someone say, \u201cOh, if you want to be a writer in this business, get on Twitter.\u201d But I think it\u2019s the opposite. If I\u2019m looking for writers and someone\u2019s like, \u201cI\u2019m not on Twitter,\u201d I\u2019m already so much more into them than someone who is.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <strong>So, is there going to be a <em>Part III<\/em>? Or have we exhausted the world\u2019s story?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Well, listen, we overwrote. 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