History Main / HistoricalLongevityJoke

* Following UsefulNotes/JoeBiden's trip to Belfast to comemmorate 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.

* In “Film/GrownUps,” Rob Schneider’s character is married to a septuagenarian. After injuring himself with an arrow, he screams at his wife to apply alcohol on the wound, commenting, “You should know about that! You were born during the Prohibition!”

* There is a joke in Finnish that doesn't translate to English directly. A man bought a car, and he said it used to belong to a big celebrity, because the person who sold it told him it's Jesus's old car (Jeesuksen vanha), which in Finnish also literally means "as old as Jesus".

* There is a joke in Finnish that doesn't translate to English directly. A man was trying to sell a car, and he said the person he got it from told him that it used to belong to a big celebrity, because it's Jesus's old car (Jeesuksen vanha), which in Finnish also literally means "as old as Jesus".

* 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. 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."

'''Top Hat:''' And you go back to the Ice Age, O.J., by the sound of your engine.\\

* On an episode of ''Series/MockTheWeek'' during the 2020 US presidential election, Ed Gamble opined that Joe Biden would be the better president to deal with the COVID crisis because of his previous experience with pandemics: having lived through typhoid and whatever killed the dinosaurs.

-->'''Mrs. Landingham:''' You're testing that preposterous contraption again.\\

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Mr. Burn's social security number is 2 (he would've been 1, but Roosevelt beat him to it).

* On ''Series/TheNanny'', Niles occasionally makes these kinds of jokes about C.C. For example:

* ''Series/TheWestWing'': In the season two episode "[[Recap/TheWestWingS02E12TheDropIn The Drop In]]", when Leo is trying to get President Bartlet to approve a missile shield and he and Mrs. Landingham, the President's secretary, engage in SnarkToSnarkCombat about it:

If the usage of this trope is followed by the revelation that Bob is ReallySevenHundredYearsOld and was actually living back then, it's a SubvertedTrope. If it was previously established that Bob is ReallySevenHundredYearsOld, this trope does not apply at all. It is also not just any joke about Bob being old but has to include some reference to him being alive during a period in which no living person could have lived.

* Mexican actor Xavier López Rodríguez, better known as Chabelo. He has the record for playing the same character for the longest time, 57 years. So there are 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. These jokes are so common that whenever a long-lived celebrity dies, Chabelo will be trending on Mexican Twitter saying how "He defeated another rival."

* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000:'' In the opening of ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E20SpaceMutiny Space Mutiny]]'', Mike whips out his encyclopedia set from high school so Crow and Tom Servo can research ancient Rome. But the bots instead complain that the encyclopedia is out-of-date:

* In ''Film/SpaceCowboys'', the titular retirement-age crew of astronauts become stars of a television talk show. The host asks if they fought in "the war". They (and the audience) are led to believe he means the Second World War (or barring that Korean), a not unreasonable question given their ages... and then he follows with "[[UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar North or South?]]"

* In ''Magazine/PrivateEye'', the elderly journalists Bill Deedes and Alistair Cooke would frequently feature in such jokes (such as Deedes being the editor of ''Haaretz'' at the time of Christ's birth).

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': In episode "Looking Old" Strong Bad has Strong Mad and The Cheat pull on his mask strings to make him look younger. It has the opposite effect when Strong Sad mistakes him for his great grandmother and asks Strong Bad to remind him of "the time the Depression fought Abraham Lincoln naked in your front yard".

* Mexican actor Xavier López Rodríguez, better known as Chabelo. He has the record for playing the same character for the longest time, 57 years. So there are 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. These jokes are so common that whenever a long-lived celebrity dies, Chabelo will be trending in Mexican Twitter saying how "He defeated another rival."

-->'''Alaska''' (Season 5, Episode 7): [=RuPaul=] is so old that her colostomy bag is made of wood.
-->'''Kandy Muse''' (Season 13, Episode 12): [=RuPaul=] is so old, I told her to act her age, bitch, she died.

-->'''Mrs. Landingham''': You're testing that preposterous contraption again.\\
'''Leo''': It's not preposterous, it's not a contraption, and mind your own business.\\
'''Mrs. Landingham''': In my day, we knew how to take care of ourselves.\\
'''Leo''': Well, in your day, you could pretty much turn back the Indians with a Daniel Boone musket, couldn't you?\\
'''Mrs. Landingham''': Ah, sarcasm, the grumpy man's wit.\\
'''Leo''': Sharpen a pencil, would ya?

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* From the ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies2018'' episode, "Animal and the Magic Mummy", when Statler and Waldorf give the babies a tour of the Ancient Egyptian wing of the museum:

(''Statler and Waldorf laugh.'')

-->'''TJ''': Ancient civilizations? Like back when [[SternTeacher Miss Finster]] was a kid?\\
''(all the kids burst into laughter)''\\
'''Miss Grotke''': Actually, TJ, we're going to go back ''thousands'' of years, not ''[[TheMiddleAges hundreds]]''. ''([[ActuallyPrettyFunny she starts laughing too]])''

* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': Calvin once asked his dad if dinosaurs were around when he was young. His dad confirms it before his mother tells him Calvin's grades are already bad enough.

* Dick Clark was subject to a lot of these in his later years, including one where he told the M&Ms that he couldn't be their sponsor for the year 2000 (MM in Roman numerals) because he had been the millennial celebrity sponsor of the previous millenium.