Editing 2000 Year Old Man (section)

{{Short description|Carl Reiner/Mel Brooks comedy sketch}}

[[File:2000yo.jpg|thumb|Rhino Records' ''2000 Year Old Man'' boxed set of albums one through four]]
'''''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.<ref name="karpel">{{cite web |last1=Karpel |first1=Ari |title=A Shtick With a Thousand Lives |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/arts/television/15karp.html |website=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=14 July 2019|date=November 12, 2009}}</ref><ref name="holmes">{{cite web |last1=Holmes |first1=Bill |title=The 2000 Year Old Man: The Complete History |url=https://www.popmatters.com/119312-the-2000-year-old-man-the-complete-history-2496153798.html |website=popmatters.com |publisher=PopMatters |access-date=13 July 2019 |date=February 3, 2010}}</ref><ref name="lee">{{cite news |last1=Lee |first1=Tom |title=The Musical Fruit |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1974/1/18/the-musical-fruit-pbkbept-alive-by/ |access-date=13 July 2019 |publisher=The Harvard Crimson |date=January 18, 1974}}</ref>