Review: History of the World' Repeats, as Farce
Briefly

Before his many lives as America's tummler-in-chief movie star, director, Broadway producer Mel Brooks was a TV guy.He wrote for Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, the Big Bang from which much of the TV comedic tradition exploded forth.His 1981 film, History of the World, Part I (in which Caesar appeared as a cave dweller), applied an episodic approach, as if it were meant to be a sketch-comedy series.
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