Editing 2000 Year Old Man (section)

==Sketch==
Reiner was the [[straight man]], asking interview questions of Brooks, who would improvise answers in a [[American Jews|Jewish-American]] accent.<ref name="playboy"/> The free-wheeling semi-improvised sketches covered a wide variety of topics from marriage ("I have been married several hundred times") and children ("I have over 42,000 children and not one comes to visit me!") to transportation ("What was the means of transportation then? Mostly fear.").<ref name="loc">{{cite web|date=June 10, 2009|title=2008|url=https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/recording-registry/registry-by-induction-years/2008/|access-date=13 July 2019|website=loc.gov|publisher=Library of Congress}}</ref>

The quality of the sketch was elevated by the quick improvisational wit of Brooks, who would usually use a question as a springboard to unplanned exposition and tangents that would be as much of a surprise to his partner as it was to the audience. Reiner continued to act as the voice of the audience, providing questions and challenging Brooks' answers. "He was like a [[district attorney]]" claims Brooks. Reiner's knowledge of history and momentous events raised the bar on the exchanges. "I knew the questions" quipped Reiner, "but I didn't know the answers." While Reiner deferred the great lines to Brooks, he knew his friend well enough to follow along and cross paths enough to prop him up for more opportunities.<ref name="holmes"/>