Ben Stiller: ‘Only Time I Would See My Parents Was on The Ed Sullivan Show’

Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara were once household names, appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show more than 30 times and turning their real-life marriage into a comedy act that captured millions of viewers. For their son, Ben Stiller, however, those appearances were bittersweet. “I remember him talking about, ‘Sometimes the only time I would see my parents is when they were on The Ed Sullivan Show,'” recalled Stiller’s friend Jerry Stahl, in a new profile of Stiller for the New York Times.