Cover of the 2000 Year Old Man album

The 2000 Year Old Man was a persona created by Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner starting around 1961. Image File history File links 2000yo. ... Image File history File links 2000yo. ... Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky on June 28, 1926) is an Academy Award-winning American actor, writer, director and producer best known as a creator of broad film farces and comedy parodies or, as he says, spoofs. // Born Melvin Kaminsky in Brooklyn, New York to Russian-Jewish parents Maximillian Kaminsky... Carl Reiner (born March 20, 1922) is an American actor, film director, producer, writer and comedian. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ...

Mel Brooks played the oldest man in the world, interviewed by Carl Reiner in a series of comedy routines that appeared on television as well as being made into a collection of records. Brooks would ad lib answers to topics such as the earliest known language ("basic Rock"), the creation of the Cross ("it was easier to put together than the Star of David"), and Joan of Arc ("Know her? I went with her!"). Joan of Arc, also known as Jeanne dArc,[1] (c. ...

The inspiration for the skit was a tape-recorded exchange between Brooks and Reiner at a party. The tape recorder was brought into the mix shortly after the opening salvos as the two comics soon had the party audience in stitches. Back in 1961, when the duo began doing the skit on television, Brooks had just undergone painful surgery for gout. Because of his after-surgery discomfort, Brooks quipped, "I feel like a 2000 year old man," which led Reiner to begin questioning him about what it's like to be a 2000 year old man and to describe history as Brooks saw it. Thus a classic skit was born.

Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner have released six comedy albums based on The 2000 Year Old Man including: The 2000 Year Old Man, The 2000 and Sixth Month Man, The 2001 Year Old Man, The 2002 Year Old Man, The 2013 Year Old Man, and The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000.

Many of the jokes (especially the caveman jokes) were eventually brought to the screen in Brooks' film History of the World, Part I. This article is about the film. ...

In 1975, there was a half-hour animated TV special, "The 2000 Year Old Man," which incorporated some of the original recordings. This special has since been released on VHS videocassette and DVD. The musical introduction of this feature was Switched-On Bach. 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Bottom view of VHS cassette with magnetic tape exposed Top view of VHS cassette with front casing removed The Vertical Helical Scan, better known by its abbreviation VHS (and often confused to be Video Home System) is a recording and playing standard for analog video cassette recorders (VCRs), developed by... The video cassette recorder (or VCR, less popularly video tape recorder) is a type of video tape recorder that uses removable cassettes containing magnetic tape to record audio and video from a television broadcast so it can be played back later. ... DVD (commonly Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... Switched-On Bach is a musical album by Wendy Carlos (then Walter Carlos) on CBS Records, released in 1968. ...

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