{"id":55736,"date":"2020-06-30T09:48:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T15:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=55736"},"modified":"2020-07-03T03:15:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T09:15:22","slug":"carl-reiner-comedy-legend-and-consummate-old-jew-telling-jokes-dies-at-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/carl-reiner-comedy-legend-and-consummate-old-jew-telling-jokes-dies-at-98\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Reiner, comedy legend and consummate old Jew telling jokes, dies at 98"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2013 Until the last day of his life, Carl Reiner was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carlreiner\">tweeting<\/a>&nbsp;about some of his favorite topics: politics, comedy and the twists and turns he experienced over decades as one of the world\u2019s greatest living funnymen.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55737\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/carl-reiner.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55737\" class=\"wp-image-55737 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/carl-reiner-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/carl-reiner-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/carl-reiner-1024x569.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/carl-reiner-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/carl-reiner-1536x853.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/carl-reiner-2048x1138.jpg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/167;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55737\" class=\"wp-image-55737 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/carl-reiner-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/carl-reiner-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/carl-reiner-1024x569.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/carl-reiner-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/carl-reiner-1536x853.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/carl-reiner-2048x1138.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-55737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carl Reiner at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica, Calif., Aug. 3, 2017. (John Wolfsohn\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Reiner died Monday at 98, hours after reiterating his dismay that Donald Trump had become president, days after posing with his daughter Annie and longtime friend Mel Brooks&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/culture\/449801\/of-course-mel-brooks-and-carl-reiner-support-black-lives-matter\/\">in Black Lives Matter shirts<\/a>&nbsp;and 70 years after his first television appearance.<\/p>\n<p>The Bronx native, the son of Jewish immigrant parents, called himself a \u201cJewish atheist\u201d and said his faith in God had ended with the Holocaust. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, he began a long and varied show business career. He created \u201cThe Dick Van Dyke Show,\u201d formed a comedy duo with Brooks that was highlighted in their album the \u201c2000 Year Old Man,\u201d wrote screenplays for Steve Martin films including \u201cThe Jerk\u201d and, in his later years, voiced characters in animated films.<\/p>\n<p>In&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jta.org\/2017\/05\/19\/culture\/carl-reiner-95-dishes-his-secrets-to-longevity\">a 2015 documentary about longevity that Reiner hosted<\/a>, he offered his own secrets for long life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe key to longevity,\u201d he said, \u201cis to interact with other people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reiner and Brooks remained close friends into their 90s, often eating dinner together, as an episode of Jerry Seinfeld\u2019s \u201cComedians in Cars Getting Coffee\u201d showed.<\/p>\n<p>In the documentary, Reiner also offered insight into what made him funny.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s partly your genes,\u201d he said. \u201cAlso, it\u2019s your environment. Also, if you have a funny bone; if you grew up in a family with a sense of humor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reiner\u2019s son Rob also would go on to have a distinguished career as an actor, notably in the groundbreaking TV comedy \u201cAll in the Family,\u201d and as a director of such films as \u201cWhen Harry Met Sally\u201d and \u201cA Few Good Men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reiner\u2019s wife of 64 years, Estelle, died in 2008. 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