The 2000 Year Old Man

TV Movie
1975
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24m

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Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner in The 2000 Year Old Man (1975)

2000 Year Old Man is an old Brooks-Reiner comedy routine turned into a half-hour animated TV special. Reiner, a TV reporter, interviews Brooks, a man claiming to be 2000 years old. The inter... Read all2000 Year Old Man is an old Brooks-Reiner comedy routine turned into a half-hour animated TV special. Reiner, a TV reporter, interviews Brooks, a man claiming to be 2000 years old. The interview consists of a series of questions regarding the history of the world.2000 Year Old Man is an old Brooks-Reiner comedy routine turned into a half-hour animated TV special. Reiner, a TV reporter, interviews Brooks, a man claiming to be 2000 years old. The interview consists of a series of questions regarding the history of the world.

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Carl Reiner

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Mel Brooks

2000 Year Old Man
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The cartoon was created in 1975, but the soundtrack is the original 1961 recording made by Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks. This is revealed in the opening scene, when the Interviewer tells the viewers that the 2,000 Year Old Man has arrived at Idlewild, the nickname for New York International Airport. This was renamed John F. Kennedy Airport in 1963 and certainly by 1975 everybody routinely referred to it as "JFK".

Quotes
2000 Year Old Man: [Referring to his book] It was a bestseller!
Interviewer: How many copies did it sell?
2000 Year Old Man: Three.

Connections
Featured in Arena: I Thought I Was Taller: A Short History of Mel Brooks (1981)

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7/10

A Comedy Schtick Animated

This is a comedy schtick by Mel Brooks with the title character and a modern interviewer set to animation. The animation itself is nothing special, but the point is what someone who is 2000 years old is supposed to be like, and what he could remember.

Jokes include how many wives he had over the millennia, as well as all his children, and not one of them write to him. Also, how Robin Hood really didn't give to the poor, that was just good publicity for him. And things such as how he had to escape lions and other big hazards people had to face thousands of years ago that modern people don't have to worry about.

Not really one of Mel Brooks' movies, but still amusing.