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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jerry Stiller was more than George Costanza&#8217;s fictional dad — and Ben Stiller&#8217;s real one.</p><p>The veteran NYC funnyman, born Gerald Isaac Stiller, <strong>died at 92</strong> of &#8220;natural causes,&#8221; Ben, 54, <a href="https://twitter.com/RedHourBen/status/1259759084309446657?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">tweeted at 5 a.m.</a> Monday. &#8220;He was a great dad and grandfather, and the most dedicated husband to Anne for about 62 years. He will be greatly missed. Love you Dad.”</p><p>Sure, he&#8217;ll go down in TV history for playing lovably neurotic Frank Costanza on &#8220;Seinfeld&#8221; — after a lengthy Broadway career performing everything from Shakespeare to Chekhov to <strong>Terrence McNally.</strong> But Stiller delivered a wide array of memorable TV and film performances. Here are a few of his most iconic moments throughout his 64-year career:</p><p><span class="embed-youtube" ><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/l0oRFtgrEII?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" width="600" height="315"></iframe></span></p><h2><strong>The Stiller &amp; Meara comedy duo</strong></h2><p>Stiller and his wife of 60-plus years, Anne Meara, were a stand-up comedy duo who appeared a staggering 36 times on the iconic &#8220;Ed Sullivan Show.&#8221; Billed as Stiller &amp; Meara starting in the late 1950s, their act thrived throughout 1960s and &#8217;70s.</p><p>As the variety-show circuit died a slow death, this latter-day vaudeville act pivoted to showcase their talents in a series of ad campaigns, most notably for Blue Nun wine. The duo&#8217;s ads boosted the vino&#8217;s sales by 500%, <strong>CBS News reported</strong>.</p><p>The couple also headlined a syndicated short-form sketch comedy series — &#8220;Take Five with Stiller and Meara&#8221; — for one season, from 1977 to 1978. The enduring duo went on to appear together in dozens of film, stage and TV projects, including the stalled 1986 sitcom pilot &#8220;The Stiller &amp; Meara Show,&#8221; and the 1995 off-Broadway show &#8220;After-Play,&#8221; which was written by Meara.</p><p>His comedy partner, whom he wrote about in his <strong>2000 memoir</strong> &#8220;Married to Laughter: A Love Story Featuring Anne Meara,&#8221; <strong>died in 2015</strong>.</p><figure id="attachment_15640898"  class="wp-caption aligncenter"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/05/jerry-stiller-iconic-06.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/05/jerry-stiller-iconic-06.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/05/jerry-stiller-iconic-06.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Leslie Ann Powers, Divine and Jerry Stiller in &#8220;Hairspray.&#8221;</span><span class="credit">New Line Cinema/Everett Collection</span></figcaption></figure><h2><strong>He was Divine&#8217;s loving husband in &#8216;Hairspray&#8217;</strong></h2><p>Sure, Stiller and Meara were an unlikely duo — he was a stout Jewish guy from Brooklyn, she was a tall, Irish Catholic lass from Long Island — but he was also one-half of an even odder couple: as gender-bending Divine’s husband in John Waters’ cult classic &#8217;80s flick, &#8220;Hairspray.&#8221;</p><p>While he played Wilbur Turnblad, the warm, encouraging dad of plus-size wannabe dancing queen Tracy Turnblad (Rikki Lake) in Waters&#8217; 1988 original, he also assumed the role of Mr. Pinky in the 2007 film adaptation of the long-running Broadway musical.</p><figure id="attachment_15640762"  class="wp-caption aligncenter"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/05/jerry-stiller-iconic-05.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/05/jerry-stiller-iconic-05.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/05/jerry-stiller-iconic-05.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Jerry Stiller, left, and Walter Matthau in &#8220;The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.&#8221;</span><span class="credit">Everett Collection</span></figcaption></figure><h2><strong>He also had a serious side</strong></h2><p>Stiller played memorably against type as Walter Matthau&#8217;s police sidekick, Lt. Rico &#8220;You&#8217;re a sick man&#8221; Patrone, in the classic white-knuckle NYC subway highjacker thriller &#8220;The Taking of Pelham One Two Three&#8221; in 1974. Ignore the subpar Denzel Washington and John Travolta remake from 2009 — and stream the gritty original featuring Stiller on <strong>Amazon</strong>.</p><p><span class="embed-youtube" ><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9fQG9Zhv2_I?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" width="600" height="315"></iframe></span></p><h2><strong>He revolutionized the &#8216;Bro&#8217; and &#8216;Festivus&#8217;</strong></h2><p>No list would be complete without his seminal sitcom &#8220;dad&#8221; roles.</p><p>Stiller appeared in so many iconic &#8220;Seinfeld&#8221; episodes that it’s hard to believe he didn’t join the beloved series as Frank Costanza until Season 5.</p><p>George’s short-fused pop added “Serenity Now” to our pop-culture lexicon, reinvented the male undergarment (“the Mansierre” or &#8220;the Bro,&#8221; depending on whom you ask), and introduced the option of <strong>“Festivus for the rest of us”</strong> to those of us who’d prefer to air our grievances and exhibit feats of strength over the holidays instead of singing carols and exchanging presents.</p><figure id="attachment_15640800"  class="wp-caption aligncenter"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/05/jerry-stiller-iconic-01.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/05/jerry-stiller-iconic-01.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/05/jerry-stiller-iconic-01.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Is it &#8220;the Bro&#8221; or &#8220;the Mansierre&#8221;? Michael Richards and Jerry Stiller in the 1995 &#8220;Seinfeld&#8221; episode.</span><span class="credit">Everett Collection/NBC</span></figcaption></figure><p>Stiller so perfected the part of the acerbic patriarch that he later played another iconic TV dad, Arthur Spooner, in &#8220;The King of Queens,&#8221; during its run from 1998 to 2007.</p><figure id="attachment_15640837"  class="wp-caption aligncenter"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/05/jerry-stiller-iconic-03.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/05/jerry-stiller-iconic-03.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/05/jerry-stiller-iconic-03.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Kevin James, Leah Remini and Jerry Stiller in &#8220;The King of Queens.&#8221;</span><span class="credit">CBS/Everett Collection</span></figcaption></figure><p>Stiller, who earned an 1997 Emmy nomination for his &#8220;Seinfeld&#8221; performance, was typically succinct when asked why he decided to join the sitcom father brigade in 1993 after decades of work on stand-up comedy and <strong>Broadway stages</strong>.</p><p>&#8220;My manager had retired,&#8221; he <strong>said in a 2005 Esquire interview</strong>. &#8220;I was close to 70 years old, and had nowhere to go.&#8221;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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