Pamela Adlon on History of the World, Part 2 & Growing Up With Mel Brooks

If you’d said to any Mel Brooks fan even three years ago that we’d finally be getting a long-awaited sequel to History of the World, Part I, the epic parody film that took audiences through all of human history, they’d likely have called you crazy. But, in 2023, that vision is finally a reality, and the much anticipated History of the World, Part II, has finally arrived, shepherded in by writers, stars, and executive producers Wanda Sykes, Nick Kroll, and Ike Barinholtz. The series continues the tradition begun by Brooks, framing each episode as a series of sketches covering the entire history of civilization — and then some. Among the many, many stars of the show is Pamela Adlon, who plays the wife of Kroll’s Schmuck Mudman in the show’s “Russian Revolution” segment, part of a family who moves from the shtetl to the city to become a part of the revolutionary forces. However, when Schmuck has different ideas of serving the revolution than his wife, and their son discovers (and subsequently falls in lov