Twain winners add Crystal to ranks

Carl Reiner, Steve Martin and Whoopi Goldberg have all won it. Now, to borrow a famous movie line he wrote, Billy Crystal is having what they’re having.

The comedian, actor, Broadway star and Yankees fan’s many talents and passions were celebrated Thursday night at the Kennedy Center in Washington as he accepted the 10th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

“Does this mean I have to retire now?” Crystal asked as he cradled the award, a bust of Twain. “Usually when someone is given an evening like this, they’re way too dead to say thank you.”

Rob Reiner, who directed the Crystal movie “When Harry Met Sally,” credited him with the lasting success of the famous restaurant scene in which Meg Ryan fakes an orgasm. Afterward, a woman cracks, “I’ll have what she’s having.”

“Billy Crystal wrote that line,” said Reiner, thanking his friend for granting cinematic immortality to his mother, Estelle Reiner, who delivered it.