From all the segments promised at the end of History of the World: Part I (1981), only the segment "A Viking Funeral" is not included at all in this sequel. In History of the World: Part II (2023), "Hitler on Ice" is featured at the start of the first episode and "Jews in Space" is featured at the end of the eighth episode.
The credits for the "Shirley!" 70's sitcom segment Shirley Chisholm (Wanda Sykes) have billing that states it was created by Melvin Kaminsky which is the actual real birth name of Mel Brooks.
Mel Brooks in the original History of the World: Part I (1981) played five roles: Moses, Comicus, Torquemada, Jacques and King Louis XVI. In History of the World: Part II (2023), he plays two: The Narrator and Himself, the latter via a CGI enhancement. Brooks does appear though as himself without CGI augmentation in the series trailer.
Show-business trade-paper 'Variety' reported in their 21st October 2021 edition that Mel Brooks would produce this series as a direct sequel to his film History of the World: Part I (1981). Hulu ordered eight episodes. The writers room would begin that month with production slated to begin in Spring 2022.
The title of both is sequel and the original History of the World: Part I (1981) movie is a play on "The Historie of the World, Volume 1" by Sir Walter Raleigh. According to Wikipedia, "The History of the World was a book about the ancient history of Greece and Rome, written by Sir Walter Raleigh while prisoner in the Tower of London. He had only managed to complete the first volume before being beheaded". According to the British Explorers website, "while in the Bloody Tower, he (Raleigh) wrote the "History of the World", which was first printed in 1614. It was composed of five volumes, but only reached as far as the second Macedonian War in 130 B.C."
Danny DeVito: As Tsar Nicholas II in Episode 1 with the character name billed as Czar Nicholas. The real life person is also known as Nicholas II, Nicholas II of Russia and Nikolai II Alexandrovich Romanov.