But yes, we can laugh at everything. But yes, we can make fun of great men (and great women), blaspheme without complex, essentialize the flaws of a few famous individuals, mix wokism, cancel culture and politically very incorrect spirit in the same work. And all on a platform yet little known for going against the tide of the zeitgeist - serious, serious, narrow, cautious, petochard. The Mad History of the World II, on Disney +, is a series of 8 episodes of 30 minutes directed by Mel Brooks (surrounded by some comrades). At 96 years old, the man may no longer have his original teeth but has kept his bite. His rewriting of the events of recent centuries as well as antiquity is deliciously delusional. It's all crazy and all wrong (although...). The Civil War? It shows General Grant being so alcoholic that he goes to West Virginia, to the Confederates, to get the whiskey that Lincoln forbids him to drink. He is of course arrested...
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