Editing 2000 Year Old Man (section)

==Legacy==
===Home media===
All five comedy albums were compiled and newly remastered on a 3-CD / 1-DVD box set by [[Shout! Factory]] for the 50th anniversary. ''The 2000 Year Old Man: The Complete History'' DVD was released November 24, 2009, and features an interview with Reiner and Brooks; the 1975 animated ''2000 Year Old Man'' television special, and clips of the two appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show and The New Steve Allen Show.{{citation needed|date=September 2010}}

The album ''2000 Years With Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks'' was added to the Library of Congress' [[National Recording Registry]] as part of its 2008 selections.<ref name="loc" /><ref name="pri" />

===Appearances in other media===
Mel Brooks appeared as the 2000 Year Old Man to help celebrate the 2000th episode of the original ''[[Jeopardy!]]'' hosted by Art Fleming (February 21, 1972), in which the three highest-scoring undefeated champions at that point returned to play an abbreviated game for charities. During his pre-game appearance he recounted how the show was done 2,000 years earlier—"It wasn't this hippy-happy-dappy game you've got here … the moment you walked out of your cave—Jeopardy!"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.j-archive.com/showplayer.php?player_id=3901|title=J! Archive - Burns Cameron|website=www.j-archive.com}}</ref> On the March 17, 2014 (S30E131) airing of the current ''Jeopardy!'' hosted by Alex Trebek, Reiner and Brooks read an entire category of clues as their characters.

Brooks adapted the character to create the 2500 Year Old Brewmaster for Ballantine Beer in the 1960s. Interviewed by [[Dick Cavett]] in a series of ads, the [[Brewmaster]] (in a German accent, as opposed to the 2000 Year Old Man's Jewish voice) said he was inside the original Trojan horse and "could've used a six-pack of fresh air."<ref name="playboy">{{Cite interview |last=Brooks |first=Mel |author-link=Mel Brooks |interviewer=[[Larry Siegel]] |url=http://ysos.sammigirl.com/interviews/playboy1966.html |title=Playboy 1966 |date=October 1966 |work=[[Playboy]] |via=ysos.sammigirl.com |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130512095922/http://ysos.sammigirl.com/interviews/playboy1966.html |archive-date=May 12, 2013}}</ref>

In the episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' entitled "[[Homer vs. Patty and Selma]]", Brooks appears as himself, riding in a limo being driven by Homer. After Homer incorrectly identifies the act as "The 2000-pound man thing," he and Brooks engage in a brief sketch, with Homer playing the part of Carl Reiner. When Homer is pulled over by the police, Chief Wiggum offers to give Brooks a ride and says they can do "the $2000-Man thing." Brooks agrees, but asks that he not play Reiner's part—"I ''hate'' Carl Reiner!", he says.

In an episode of ''[[Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip]]'' entitled "The Option Period", comedy writer Rick Tahoe uses The 2000 Year Old Man as an example of an ideal comedy sketch.