Mel Brooks is a sophisticated guy. He collected fancy French wines and did a tasting on Johnny Carson’s show. He drops references to Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls. He was married for 40 years to that epitome of elegance, Anne Bancroft. He was a favourite lunch companion of Cary Grant, the suavest man who ever lived. But in the new TV show History of the World, Part II, which is streaming in the US on Hulu, you can still find all the Mel Brooks signature comedy stylings: penis jokes, puke jokes and fart jokes. “I like fart jokes,” he said, Zooming...