Mt. Reiner and the Babbling Brooks
The hits keep coming. Which means more on the late Carl Reiner. I came across this video by accident. When I was tracking down the video I posted yesterday of the end credit dance to the movie All of Me that he directed, I followed some and got here.
It comes from 1997, and isn't just of Carl Reiner, but with his long-time best friend of 70 years, Mel Brooks, together as guests in The Tonight Show. As you may recall (or not), when the millennium approached, they revisited their classic 2,000 Year Old Man character, and released their first album with the good fellow in 24 years, The 2,000 Year Old Man in the Year 2,000. And they perform a sketch from it on the show.
But that's not the full treat. Because when they sitting down at the desk, host Jay Leno asks about how the character came about -- and they go into recreating the moment in the old Your Show of Shows writers room. And after that, recreate several other impromptu moments that had come along in the character's history. It's all really a joy.
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