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"2000 Years With Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks"(Capitol 1529)-LP. This vintage comedy LP was released in 1961. Tracks include-2000 Year Old Man,Fabiola,Astronaut,In A Coffee House,The Peruvian,The Psychiatrist.The 2000 Year Old Man was a persona in a comedy skit, created by Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner starting around 1960. (The 2000 year old man's birthday is October 16th)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. In a Jewish accent, 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"; "to me it seemed...simple. I didn't know then it was eloquent!"), and Joan of Arc ("Know her? I went with her, dummy, I went with her!").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.The LP has been autographed on the front cover by Mel Brooks with a fountain pen in blue and Carl Reiner with a fountain pen in red..............CONDITION OF VINYL,COVER AND AUTOGRAPHS IS VG................
