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In the 1960s, the duo Stiller & Meara belonged to the aristocracy of American comedy (we didn’t call it stand-up yet). Jerry Stiller (1927-2015) and Anne Meara (1929-2015) were regularly invited by Ed Sullivan, who reigned over American nights on the CBS network. In his house, when only forty years old, they made his most famous sketch, Computer Dating, where the computer became the intermediary (in 1969) between Hershey Horowitz and Mary Elizabeth Doyle.
In real life, two children were born to the Ashkhenazi-Irish union, usually New York, Amy and Ben. The latter made a name for himself, becoming a great comedian in his own right (Mary anyhow, Zoolander), subtle actor (Tenenbaums Kingdom, Greenberg) before becoming a series producer – Termination be the newest.
You only have to watch a few seconds of a sketch of Stiller & Meara – the tall, beaming, sometimes cruel women who drive this little man crazy in search of approval – to find all sorts of explanations for the neurosis that Ben Stiller displays through his characters. With Stiller & Meara, Nothing Is Lost (nothing is missing), the person concerned begins posthumous family therapy (Anne Meara died in 2015, Jerry Stiller in 2020) whose starting point was the sale of the family apartment in New York.
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