‘History Of The World Part II’: How The Comedians Let It All Hang Out In Hulu Series – Contenders TV
deadline.comAs obnoxious as the phrase “cancel culture” might be, it’s not unreasonable to assume that some skits might not have passed the smell test when Hulu’s History of the World Part II was in development.
But David Stassen, who served as showrunner on the eight-episode series, said there wasn’t a single conversation where someone said, “We shouldn’t do this.” “Everyone thought of the best ideas, and we worked on them,” Stassen said Saturday during the show’s Contenders TV panel in Hollywood. “Hopefully, the best rose to the top.” RELATED: Deadline Studio At Contenders Television 2023 – Steven Yeun, Ali Wong, Dominique Fishback, Riley Keough, Natasha Lyonne & More Actually, there was one skit that didn’t make the final cut.
Ike Barinholtz — who joined the panel Saturday with Stassen and star Wanda Sykes — said they wanted to show a couple having sex right as the volcano erupted in Pompeii, but they already had done something on Kama Sutra and had “a lot of sex sketches.” RELATED: TV – Deadline’s Full Coverage The series serves as the sequel to Mel Brooks’ seminal 1981 film History of the World, Part I.
Brooks also EPs the series that also stars Nick Kroll, Barinholtz and Sykes. “We just followed the model of the movie,” explained Barinholtz about how the series was structured. “We just went bigger with 20- to 30-minute stories. … There was a lot of shuffling around in post, how it was all going to fit together.
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