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As reported by The Guardian, for many years, Mel Brooks would drive each night from his home in Santa Monica to Carl Reiner’s in Beverly Hills where the two old friends would share a meal and watch “Jeopardy!” Brooks and Reiner first met in 1950 when they were both working on Sid Caesar’s “Your Show of Shows” and remained friends until Reiner’s death in 2020.
“If you have one good friend, you’re lucky,” Reiner said during an interview with PBS News Hour. “And I have one good friend, I call him my best friend. My life is fuller because I’ve had Mel in my life. If he doesn’t come over, I don’t know what to do with myself. He comes over every night.”
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Carl’s son Rob Reiner told CBS News that the tradition continued even past his father’s death. “One year, he would go over to the house, and sit there, have dinner and watch television – when my dad wasn’t there for a whole year,” Rob Reiner said.
