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Having been away for two weeks, I now have to learn the new channels all over again. Last night after dinner, somewhere up in the 2000's, I found a talk show with a host I'd never seen before (and who, interestingly, was in his 60s). His guests were Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner.

Brooks had a wonderful nervous energy, and looked a bit like an octogenarian John McEnroe. He said he was thinking about doing a musical of Blazing Saddles. Reiner suggested that he do a musical of the 2,000 year old man. The attraction, he said, would be that you could have songs covering all the different musical eras.

Then Brooks started asking the host questions. "What is this show?" (I had been wondering the same thing.) "Are we getting paid for this?" Reiner told him he didn't need to get paid; he should look at his bank account. Undeterred, Brooks asked if they were at least getting a town car to take them from the studio.

There are some people who should just be allowed to keep living.