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But when you get on set, you realize very quickly that its a send-up of the whole thing.
Mel Brooks isreported to have once said, Wit is shit.
Comedy in the last generation has become smaller in terms of the way people play it.
Its more subtle, EP Ike Barinholtz said.
you better jump in and embrace that big, fun tone.
Or Just a touch smaller.
For some people, playing dumb is a challenge, he said.
Maybe it says something about me that I dont find it a challenge.
Writing a bigger, almost vaudevillian show was a hoot for showrunner David Stassen.
Ike and I had been writing pilots and TV shows that we wanted to be in the Zeitgeist.
Especially 2016 on, you wanted to say something about the country, he said.
This was such a relief, going We just have to be funny.
Wed ask, What would Mel do?
Hed add a million jokes, hed do slapstick, hed add a funny sign.
It was a great relief to work in a different comedic mindset.
For both Brian Huskey and Ken Marino, Gene Wilder was their acting inspo for the show.
Gene Wilder is so profoundly truthful.
Genuine and honest even when hes at his most insane, Huskey said.
He could have been an amazing serious actor, but he wasnt.
He does get big from time to time, but theres a truthfulness to it that I love.
The situation is ridiculous.
The situations get ridiculous whenHistory of the World, Part IIcomes to Hulu on March 6.
