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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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Mar 20, 2014 · 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
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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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 when...
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- David Paul Kirkpatrick
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.
Nov 28, 2009 · The 2000-year-old man is about to turn 2050. The character that Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks concocted, first to entertain at parties - they finally recorded him in 1960, back when Elvis Presley...