More than 40 years later, a sequel to the famous comedy by
Mel Brooks
,
La Folle histoire du monde
, arrives Monday on the American platform Hulu of the Disney group - in France, it will be necessary to wait longer for it to be broadcast on
Disney +
.
At 96, the New York comedian lends his voice in these eight episodes of this series entitled
La Folle Histoire du monde, partie 2
, which he produced and co-wrote with actors Nick Kroll and Ike Barinholtz, and the comedian Wanda Sykes.
"His comic spirit is still very sharp (...) This guy has a crazy life force and still has many jokes to stage",
confided, impressed, Nick Kroll, during a press conference in January.
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Worldwide success after its release in 1981,
La Folle Histoire du monde
, a deliberately burlesque comedy, parodied the Stone Age as well as the French Revolution.
Mel Brooks camped there, for example, a clumsy Moses who knocks down and breaks the Tablets of the Law.
With Hitler demonstrating his ice-skating abilities as the last sequence, the film ended with the announcement of an upcoming sequel.
Updated humor
Here it is, then.
Eight half-hour episodes revisit, out of order, Judas' kiss, the invention of the telephone, the Civil War, the Russian Revolution, the Allied landings in Normandy.
The spectator is also invited to the writing sessions of
Romeo and Juliet
around Shakespeare, to the photo session of the Yalta conference with Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin, or behind the scenes of diplomatic negotiations in the Middle East.
Between misunderstandings and anachronisms, we find the paw of Mel Brooks, updated in the era of social networks.
Born June 26, 1926 into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, Mel Brooks has always made humor and derision his favorite weapon against fanaticism since his first film, The
Producers
(1968).
A feature film that has become cult, of which Alexis Michalik has proposed an effective adaptation on the boards, in 2021, at the Théâtre de Paris.
Brooks is one of the few American artists to have won the coveted "EGOT", a sort of grand slam of American culture awards: Emmy Award, Grammy Award, Oscar, Tony Award.
