Mel Brooks speaks to VF about ‘History of the World, Part II,’ working with Wanda Sykes and Nick Kroll, and what he considers to be comedy’s primary role throughout history.
At 96, your comic sensibility hardly seems to have mellowed. Some of the new material leaves evenMel Brooks:
Until now, the only sequels you’d ever done were the three follow-ups to “the 2,000-Year-Old Man.” I always thought if you ever did a movie sequel, it would be forconsidering how many Frankenstein films Universal and Hammer Productions created. You were also a writer on the show. What were those sessions like, and what was the pep talk you gave the other writers?
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