From expressnightout.com
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"THE 2,000 YEAR OLD MAN" was never intended to last one year, let alone 60.
In the early 1950s, friends and fellow comedy writers Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks started doing the routine at parties: Reiner would play the interviewer and straight man, asking Brooks a series of questions that he would answer as the world's oldest man. For example:
» REINER: What was the means of transportation then?
» BROOKS: Mostly fear.
» REINER: Fear...
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Carl Reiner’s entertainment resume and list of industry accomplishments comprise an ongoing saga. The winner of 12 Emmys and a Grammy Award has worked alongside an eclectic mix of performers, from Mel Brooks, Sid Caesar, Dick Van Dyke, Neil Simon ...
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From search.live.com
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Q. Sixty years later it seems you see a lot of each other now. REINER Yeah, we got that big screen [gestures to incredibly large flat-screen monitor] to look at television. Q. So you come here, Mel, and you watch TV together? BROOKS Almost every night. He’s got a wonderful housekeeper-cook and we decide on a menu and a movie. Q. What did you watch most recently? BROOKS We watched last night “The Peacemaker.” With Nicole Kidman and, come on...
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From definitiveink.typepad.com
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MEL BROOKS and Carl Reiner have been cracking each other up for nearly 60 years. The two met while working on Sid Caesar's early television series “Your Show of Shows,” when they cooked up a routine in which Mr. Reiner played an earnest ...
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From blogsearch.google.com
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One of our favorite comedy bits, and one that ironically rarely seems to age, is the Mel Brooks-Carl Reiner "2,000-year old man" shtick. Essentially, it's an interviewer talking to the oldest man alive played by Mel Brooks. He has opinions on everything in old Jewish man style. Take his stance on the Black Plague "Too many rats, not enough cats." In High School one of our favorite comedy albums was "The 2000 Year Old Man In The Year 2000...
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