2000 Year Man

Q: Did you ever feel constrained as the straight man, Carl?

CARL REINER: No, no, no, no.

MEL BROOKS: He does get plenty of laughs. He breaks me up all the time, and it’s his earnestness.

Q: Sixty years later it seems you see a lot of each other now.

REINER: Yeah, we got that big screen [gestures to incredibly large flat-screen monitor] to look at television.

Q: So you come here, Mel, and you watch TV together?

BROOKS: Almost every night. He’s got a wonderful housekeeper-cook and we decide on a menu and a movie.

Q: What did you watch most recently?

BROOKS: We watched last night “The Peacemaker.” With Nicole Kidman and, come on. [He gestures to Mr. Reiner.]

REINER: George Clooney.

BROOKS: Right. It was two and a half stars at the most. Good performances, very silly, you know.

REINER We look for movies with the line “Secure the perimeter!”