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t's hard work not getting a
word in edgewise. Just ask
Carl Reiner about playing
straight man to his friend Mel
Brooks, someone not generally
associated with silence.
In the 1960s and '70s, the two
collaborated on four "2000 Year
Old Man" comedy albums, with
Mr. Reiner playing the inter-
viewer, eager to extract the wis-
dom of the ages from Mr. Brooks'
voluble sage.
But listen to "The Complete
2000 Year Old Man," released in
May on Rhino Records, and the
crystal clear CDs will reveal
something that the scratchy old
12-inch LPs obscured — Mr.
Reiner actually is talking almost
as much as Mr. Brooks.
In fact, they're talking at the
same time.
"I never knew when he was
finished," Mr. Reiner says in a

telephone interview from his
home in Beverly Hills.
In these performances, Mr.
Reiner's tenor-toned "Sir's" are
his not-always-successful wedge
between Mr. Brooks' scattershot
musings on 2,000 years of human
history. He responds to the sage's
outrageous and continual de-
bunkings of common knowledge
("Don't tell me Shakespeare was
a great writer, he had the worst
penmanship I ever saw.") with a
bewildered "Now just a minute,
sir," as if the everyman's truths
suddenly aren't so self-evident.
And throughout, Mr. Reiner —
no slouch himself as a comedy di-
rector, writer and actor giggles
at the wild webs his friend
weaves in what were, with one
exception, ad lib sessions.
"My job was to push him into
a panic, to push him into a cor-

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