Happy Birthday Mel Brooks: ‘The 2000 Year-old Man’ turns 86 today

06.28.2012
12:05 pm

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Happy birthday to Mel Brooks on his 86th birthday.

(The great American funnyman and director of such comedy classics as High Anxiety, Blazing Saddles and The Producers is really “Two-thousand years young.” He just looks great for his age!)

Below, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner performing their all-time classic “2000 Year-Old Man” sketch on The Hollywood Palace TV variety hour in 1966

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Posted by Richard Metzger

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