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The 2000 Year Old Man is a comedy sketch created by Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks in the 1950s and first publicly performed in the 1960s. Brooks plays a 2000-year-old man, interviewed by Reiner in a series of comedy routines that were turned into a collection of records and also performed on television.
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Jun 30, 2020 · An excerpt from Carl Reiner’s 2003 memoir ‘My Anecdotal Life’ on the origins of the 2000 Year Old Man, Mel Brooks, Jewish humor, and more.
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The durable, always unscripted 2000-Year-Old Man made an instant splash with friends and family, but his accent — which came quite naturally to the Brooklyn-born Brooks — caused the duo to question the wisdom of trotting him out before a wider audience.
Reiner formed a comedy duo with Mel Brooks in "2000 Year Old Man" and acted in such films as It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966),...
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Feb 3, 2010 · On the first album, 2000 Years with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, title subject was merely one character among many, although the premise was the same. Reiner played the interviewer,...
Surprisingly, the original, Grammy-nominated “2000 Years with Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks” LP contains only about 12-and-a-half minutes in which “reporter” Reiner actually questions “senior citizen” Brooks.
Jan 27, 2023 · The Inspiration Behind Mel Brooks' 2000 Year Old Man Character. Comedians Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner were such close friends that, until Reiner died in June of 2020, they would meet up every night to chat, eat dinner, and watch "Jeopardy" together, as reported by The Guardian.
