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The Inquisition, what a show! And now, literally! Mel Brooks dubbed his 1981 comedy History of the World: Part I. The anthology film poked fun at various periods of human history, including the earliest days of the caveman to the Roman Empire to the Spanish Inquisition to the French Revolution. The Part I of the title was a joke; Brooks didn’t plan on making a sequel, but he did get to finish the film with a fake teaser promoting some of the scenes from the sequel, including the immortal classic “Jews in Space!” Well, it’s a not joke anymore — or hopefully it’s now many jokes, all of them very…