It’s not often I get to watch my alma mater play on TV (is it still called “TV”?), but last night I had the opportunity to do just that.

It was fun for about five minutes.

I probably should have expected a thrashing, but I often go into these things like a wide-eyed college kid.

Vermont 79, Binghamton 57.

Honestly it wasn’t even that close.

Luckily for me I’ve got some good TV these days courtesy of the ageless Mel Brooks. To some a hero and to others a mere legend (so he says in the show’s opening), Mel’s still doing his thing at 96. And more than 40 years after he made us laugh with History of the World, Part I, there is now–you guessed it–History of the World, Part II. Streaming on Hulu, it’s basically a 30-minute episode of SNL, which I suppose has always been a 90-minute episode of Mel Brooks. Most of the sketches (can I use that term?) are low-hanging fruit, but hey, it’s Mel Brooks, and he’s got some of the biggest names in the business spouting these corny lines.

Don’t we all deserve to laugh these days, when there’s so much turmoil and bad basketball in the world?