Shtick With a Thousand Lives

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I've been laughing at these two for fifty years

Shtick With a Thousand Lives

By ARI KARPEL
Published: November 12, 2009

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, unnamed TV interviewer, and Mr. Brooks, the 2,000 Year Old Man.

In a Yiddish accent, the old guy held forth on the questionable wisdom of an ab...