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Mel Brooks Talks Kennedy Center Honors With the Washington Post

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:45:59 GMT

Mel Brooks (Book, Composer & Lyricist).
Source: Broadway World

Music: Interview:Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:39:26 GMT

It started as a novelty act: Carl Reiner would entertain friends at parties by pretending to interview a character he’d throw at Mel Brooks, who would immediately adopt the persona—a guy at a coffee shop, a famous film director, a submarine captain.
Source: The A.V. Club

CD Review: Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, “The 2000 Year Old Man: The Complete History”

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:42:27 GMT

Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks met when both men were writers for Sid Caesar’s fabled television program, Your Show of Shows. Working from an idea that Reiner had, they developed a comedy routine based on the memories of a 2,000 year-old man.
Source: Popdose.com

An uncommon bond

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:16:18 GMT

Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner have cracked each other up for about 60 years.
Source: Columbus Dispatch

'2,000 Year Old Man' still kicking on new DVD

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:50:54 GMT

Now 87, Reiner has been in show business for more than 50 years as a writer, performer, producer and director.
Source: San Francisco Chronicle

The Death of the Cool

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:58:21 GMT

It may simply be that some are born cool, or at least with the requisite quanta of intelligence and temperament, and the rest of us are not. Cool is self-direction, self-possession, self-sufficiency, capability, discretion, and a bit of wit.
Source: The American | American Enterprise Institute

JUST GETTING WARMED UP:

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:30:05 GMT

MEL BROOKS and Carl Reiner have been cracking each other up for nearly 60 years.
Source: BrothersJudd Blog

A Shtick With a Thousand Lives

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:41:48 GMT

MEL BROOKS and Carl Reiner have been cracking each other up for nearly 60 years.
Source: The New York Times

Quoted in 'Neil Simon masterfully balances sadness and humor in his comedy 'Chapter Two''

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:42:10 GMT

said in Monterey County Herald:

I followed his struggle to break out of being a comic writer ... He made his fame by writing comic plays — he started out on Sid Caesar's 'Your Show of Shows.' But he always wanted to be a more serious writer and he struggled with that. He wrote 'The Gingerbread Lady' (in 1970), a dark, maudlin play about an alcoholic woman. Then he began to combine serious material with comic material.

Whose line is it anyway - guest star Sid Caesar

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:42:52 GMT