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Ben Stiller is planning to hold a a memorial service for his late father Jerry Stiller when coronavirus social distancing restrictions ease up. “It’s a weird time now,” The 54-year-old director told Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday’s episode of the “Tonight Show.” “People can’t really gather together. I think somewhere down the line we’ll do a …
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As Ben Stiller continues to grieve the death of his father, comedy great Jerry Stiller, the actor took time to discuss the TV icon’s legacy and treasured moments spent together both on and off camera. Speaking to The New Yorker, the 54-year-old director was asked what he made of the following quote from an old …
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Jerry Seinfeld said he never gave the late Jerry Stiller a note while they were working together on the TV comedy classic “Seinfeld.” Speaking on the SiriusXM Netflix is a Joke Radio channel on the “What A Joke With Papa & Fortune” show, Seinfeld said he didn’t understand a lot of what Stiller brought in …
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Jerry Stiller was behind one of the most famous bloopers on “Seinfeld” — and co-stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jason Alexander still couldn’t stop laughing about it recently. Stiller, whose death was announced Monday, played the hysterical rage-filled dad of Alexander’s hapless character, George, and in the 1996 behind-the-scenes episode of the classic NBC sitcom, he’s …
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The cast of “Seinfeld” is mourning the patriarch of the iconic sitcom. Co-stars Jerry Seinfeld and Jason Alexander have shared somber tributes to the late great Jerry Stiller, who died of natural causes at 92, his family announced Monday morning. Stiller played Frank Costanza, the cantankerous father of George Costanza (Alexander), on Seinfeld’s eponymous show. …
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Jerry Stiller‘s “The King of Queens” co-stars paid a touching tribute to the comedy legend after his death was announced Monday. “I was lucky enough to work with Jerry Stiller, playing his daughter for 9 years on The King Of Queens, but even luckier to know him, the man, the husband, the father, the grandfather,” …
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Jerry Stiller was more than George Costanza’s fictional dad — and Ben Stiller’s real one. The veteran NYC funnyman, born Gerald Isaac Stiller, died at 92 of “natural causes,” Ben, 54, tweeted at 5 a.m. Monday. “He was a great dad and grandfather, and the most dedicated husband to Anne for about 62 years. He …
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NEW YORK — Comedy veteran Jerry Stiller, who launched his career opposite wife Anne Meara in the 1950s and reemerged four decades later as the hysterically high-strung Frank Costanza on the smash television show “Seinfeld,” died at 92, his son Ben Stiller announced Monday. He died of natural causes, his son — a comedy star …
Ben Stiller is planning to hold a a memorial service for his late father Jerry Stiller when coronavirus social distancing restrictions ease up. “It’s a weird time now,” The 54-year-old director told Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday’s episode of the “Tonight Show.” “People can’t really gather together. I think somewhere down the line we’ll do a …
