Reiner was a nine-time Emmy Awards winner, and won a Grammy for his best-selling album with Mel Brooks entitled, "2000 Years With Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks" in 1960.

But he broke out as a star in his own right with his "2,000 Year Old Man" sketches, in which his best friend Carl Reiner (whom he met working on Caesar's show) interviewed him in character as, you ...

A picture of Carl Reiner with daughter Annie and recent birthday boy, Mel Brooks all in Black Lives Matter shirts. Fourteen hours ago, he tweeted a multi-part appreciation of Noel Coward.

A Shtick With a Thousand Lives Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner look back on their 2,000 Year Old Man routine, which is being reissued on disc.

He paired with lifelong friend Carl Reiner to create genius works including The 2,000 Year Old Man, and Brooks co-created Get Smart, the spy spoof sitcom.

Mel Brooks has been amusing people for almost a century. He reckons the laughs started almost as soon as he could burble. “I think I was entertaining even as a little baby. I knew I was funny, because ...

Brooks said he and Reiner had been best friends since meeting on “Your Show of Shows.” “Carl was a giant, unmatched in his contributions to entertainment,” Brooks said.

Carl Reiner, the ingenious and versatile writer, actor and director who broke through as a “second banana” to Sid Caesar and rose to comedy’s front ranks as creator of “The Dick Van Dyke ...

Interview with entertainer Mel Brooks on his career and conservative personal investment strategy; Brooks discusses finances in his persona as 2,000-Year-Old Man with Carl Reiner; photos (L) ...