Editing 2000 Year Old Man (section)

===Animated special===
{{Infobox television
| image                =
| caption              = 
| genre                = Animated [[television special]]
| creator              = 
| based_on             = 
| writer               = {{plainlist|
* [[Mel Brooks]]
* [[Carl Reiner]]}}
| screenplay           = 
| story                = 
| director             = Leo Salkin
| voices               = {{plainlist|
* Mel Brooks
* Carl Reiner}}
| narrated             = 
| theme_music_composer = [[Mort Garson]]
| country              = United States
| language             = English
| producer             = Leo Salkin
| editor               = 
| cinematography       = 
| runtime              = 30 min
| company              = {{plainlist|
* Crossbow Productions
* Acre Enterprises
* Leo Salkin Films}}
| budget               = 
| network              = [[CBS]]
| released             = {{Start date|1975|1|11}} 
}}
A half-hour animated television special, ''The 2000 Year Old Man'', premiered January 11, 1975.<ref name=AMG>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/v168 |title=2000 Year Old Man (1975) - Leo Salkin |first=Hal |last=Erickson |website=AllMovie |access-date=February 26, 2021}}</ref> The dialogue for the special was taken from the live recordings of Reiner and Brooks.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=June 6, 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/339/mode/2up |pages=339–340}}</ref> This special has since been released on home video. The musical introduction was Bach's ''Sinfonia to Cantata #29'' performed on a [[Moog synthesizer]] by [[Mort Garson]].{{citation needed|date=September 2010}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005348/?ref_=tt_rv_t0| title=IMDb entry for program}}</ref>

Most of the jokes were previously heard routines and/or eventually brought to the screen in Brooks' film ''[[History of the World, Part I]]'' (especially the caveman jokes).