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\u201cIt\u2019s just an unspeakable tragedy, because he was just the best person, and so is Michele,\u201d Apatow told Variety. \u201cThey really fought for the political causes they believed in. They walked the walk, put in the time, and I think they made the world a much better place, in addition to their artistry, and it\u2019s an unfillable hole.\u201d<\/p>\n
Reiner<\/a> plays a significant role in the two-part documentary, which premiered Thursday, Jan. 22 on HBO. The Reiner family had a close, decades-long relationship with Brooks. Rob\u2019s father Carl Reiner<\/a> and Brooks were collaborators and best friends, famously creating \u201cThe 2,000 Year Old Man<\/a>\u201d routine together. Carl Reiner died in June 2020, and…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At the Los Angeles premiere of the HBO documentary \u201cMel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man,\u201d co-director and executive producer Judd Apatow took a moment to pay tribute to the late Rob Reiner, who features prominently in the film. \u201cIt\u2019s just an unspeakable tragedy, because he was just the best person, and so is Michele,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2251410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2251409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Judd-Apatow-Honors-Late-Rob-Reiner-at-\u2018Mel-Brooks-The.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251411,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251409\/revisions\/2251411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2251410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}