History Main / HistoricalLongevityJoke

* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'': Teddy asks Indy if he met the Wright Brothers, when Indy points out that they were born just after the Civil War Teddy adds that he figured they went to school together.

* "Series/Warehouse13":

* Philippine senator Juan Ponce Enrile (aged 99 as of 2023) has been variously claimed to have been around during the Big Bang, planted the apple tree in the Garden of Eden, washed the dishes of the Last Supper, walked across Pangea on foot, inspired Philippine hero Apolinario Mabini, and was somehow responsible for Hydra from ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica''. Yes, we're not making that stuff up.

** There's a plot relevant [[MacGuffin]] that belonged to Ferdinand Magellan which elicits this conversation (Slightly paraphrased):
--->Claudia: That's why it's a 24 hour watch... 'cause Magellan was the first person to sail around the world.\\
Artie: So you did pay attention in class?\\
Claudia: Yes, now think back to "your" youth and try to remember what he said to you on deck the night he crossed the international dateline.\\

* ''Series/TheWestWing'':

* ''TUGS'': In the episode ''Quarantine'', a heatwave hits the harbour, with O.J. commenting on it, followed by a sarcastic remark from Top Hat when the former's engine starts acting up.
--->'''O.J.:''' It's the longest heatwave I can remember.\\

* Mexican actor Xavier López Rodríguez, better known as Chabelo. He held the record for playing the same character for the were time, 57 years until his death in March 2023. So there were a lot of jokes and memes saying that he has been going on even longer: Like how when God created light, Chabelo already had a pending bill, or how Noah's Ark was built by Chabelo's long-standing promoter [[https://www.mueblestroncoso.com.mx/ Troncoso Furniture]]. These jokes were so common that whenever a long-lived celebrity died, Chabelo would be trending on Mexican Twitter saying how "He defeated another rival" with the last one before his own death being Queen Elizabeth II.

* The folk song "I Was Born about Ten Thousand Years Ago" has the narrator [[https://youtu.be/PnSmvRKoBtU claiming they were present during prominent biblical and historical events]].

* In ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks'', Riley once asked his grandfather Robert if he remembers traveling on a slave ship from Africa to America centuries ago, to which Granddad replied, "I'm not ''that'' old!".

--> Yo mama so old, she was friends with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushim_(Uruk_period) Kushim]].

-->Something tells me that you are the doctor that healed [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuauhtémoc Cuauhtémoc's feet]].

'''Archer:''' Oh, who'd you spy for? The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_civilization Etruscans]]?

** Because the show has [[NoContinuity little continuity]], occasional gags have made Burns ''much'' older than this, ranging from claiming he watched [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Corbett Gentleman Jim Corbett]] fighting "an Eskimo fellow", to giving his place of birth as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea Pangea]].

* A variant with Hungarian mathematician [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erdős Paul Erdős]], who joked he was "two and a half billion years old" because [[DatedHistory Earth was two billion years old when he was a child, and four and a half billion years old in his adulthood]]. His students would ask him what dinosaurs looked like, and he (eventually) came up with the answer "I can't remember -- I was already too old by then".

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** Because the show has [[NoContinuity little continuity]], occasional gags have made Burns ''much'' older than this, ranging from claiming he watched [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Corbett Gentleman Jim Corbett]] fighting "an Eskimo fellow", to giving his place of birth as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangaea Pangea]].

** And the following week: "Of course, Ireland has changed a lot since Biden first visited. Due to plate tectonics, it's no longer connected to Europe.

* Following UsefulNotes/JoeBiden's trip to Belfast to commemorate 25 years since the end of UsefulNotes/TheTroubles, ''Radio/TheNowShow'' explained that he was a senator at the time of the Good Friday Agreement ... and a junior congressman at the time of Good Friday.