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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. [1] [2] [3] History.
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Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner perform a classic 2000 Year Old Man routine. This originally aired on the Colgate Comedy Hour in 1967. You can find this video and...
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- The Official MEL BROOKS Channel
Jun 15, 2013 · The 2000 Year Old Man is a character created by Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner. According to Carl Reiner's son , Rob Reiner, in a 2008 interview, the characcter was originally established...
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- David Paul Kirkpatrick
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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…a comedy routine called “The 2000 Year Old Man,” in which he interviewed Mel Brooks, who played the title character. The routine was later the basis for a number of successful recordings—one of which, The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 (1997), earned a Grammy Award—as well… Read More
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.
One wonders what the 2000-Year-Old Man—who as a caveman had trouble determining “who was a lady”—would have had to say about the movements for Trans Equality, #MeToo, and Black Lives Matter.
