The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000 [Paperback]

Mel & Reiner, Carl Brooks (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Harper Collins; First edition (January 1, 1997)
• ASIN: B000OEO6VQ
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's thin.I laughed. Call me a schlemiehl!, March 29, 2000

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James J. Bloom (Silver Spring, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000: The Book (Paperback)

True, it's about a two hour read for most -- five for me but I tracethe words with my finger as I read. On the plane, I laughedaloud. There was some whispering and the woman next to me changed her seat. Some of it may be recycled shtick but it still seems fresh. Most I've never seen/heard and I have listened to the Old Man CDs. I'd say there's fifty belly laughs, ten chortles, one guffaw, three titters and a smile. It will give you a few hours of delightfully outrageous grumpy old Jewish man humor. I should know. Buy it. Read it. Laugh. Eat your oatmeal and let me alone already. END

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Some things are just funnier when you hear them., November 30, 1998

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J. Carroll "Jack" (Island Heights,NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000: The Book (Hardcover)

Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner have collected many of this character's "greatest hits" and put them in book form. Buy the audio tape. This is just one of those examples of a performance that doesn't translate well to the written word. Brooks and Reiner are very funny men but this is not a funny book. Trying to imagine inflection and timing is not a fun thing while you're trying to read.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The FUNNIEST book I have ever read!!!!!, December 4, 1998

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This review is from: The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000: The Book (Paperback)

The first time I read this book I was on a plane and everyone was staring at me because I could not stop laughing. You can try not to, but you just have to laugh. Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner have not lost their flair for funny.