for more than 50 years as an enter-
tainer, would take a question from
Cantor, then launch into priceless
shticks like Shakespearean double-
speak and a lesson in how baseball leg-
end Satchel Paige threw an outlawed
pitch.
After each bit, Reiner would tell the
crowd, "This is very interesting... to me."
Reiner talked about his creation of
TV's The Dick Van Dyke Show, in
which he originally planned for himself
to play the comedy writer. He ended
up in the role of comedian Alan Brady
When Reiner couldn't sell the show
to anyone, producer Sheldon Leonard
told him, 'We'll get someone better
than you to play you,'" he said.
Once Dick Van Dyke was found, it
took interviewing 60 actresses before
Mary Tyler Moore spoke two lines to
Reiner to become the female lead.
Reiner said he grabbed the actress by
the top of the head and pulled her down
the hallway to Leonard's office and
exclaimed, "I've just found Laura Petrie."
He also told of the day that his
then 14-year-old son, Robbie, patted
Mary on the behind.
"He fessed up to it and thought
nothing of it," he said, "but I think his

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pal, Albert Brooks, put him up to it."
The famous, Grammy Award-win-
ning 2,000 Year Old Man bit that
Reiner played with Mel Brooks started
as a shtick they did for friends at par-
ties. It parodied a short-lived program
that took viewers to historic events as
they happened.
The two kept the material to them-
selves for about 10 years because they
thought it might offend non-Jews.
Then when neighbor Cary Grant —
the "cheap guy" who kept asking him
for free copies of the bit to give to
friends — told him the Queen
Mother in England heard the record
and loved it, Reiner said he remarked,
"That's the major shiksa in the world.
It must be good."
Laughter is what separates humans
from all other life forms, he noted.
"Plankton don't laugh; turtles don't
laugh. I think cats smile, though." El

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