Remembering the brilliant career of Stiller & Meara
Stiller and Meara together in 1970. Photo: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Jerry Stiller has passed away at the age of 92. Today he is probably best known for his work as Frank Costanza on Seinfeld, Arthur Spooner on King of Queens, or perhaps Maury Ballstein in the Zoolander films, but his comedic career goes back into the 1950s. The comedy team of Stiller & Meara was famous across the nation, appearing on all of the major variety shows of the day.
Stiller and Meara were near fixtures on The Ed Sullivan Show, perhaps the most important variety show of the time, often making appearances mere months apart. The clip above comes from June 14, 1964, their fifth appearance on the show and an excellent example of the basic structure of the routines they would perform in nightclubs and, eventually, on records.
Along with Sullivan, the other hot show broadcasting from New York City in the late 1960s was, of course, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Stiller and Meara made the occasional guest appearance with Johnny as well, but perhaps not so prescient as the above performance about a couple who is meeting for the first time after being matched by a computer.
The Carol Burnett Show offered Stiller & Meara an opportunity to try something a little different. They still performed comedy in their classic duo style, such as this piece on Richard Nixon visiting China, but the pair often appeared in sketches alongside the regular cast members of the show. In the segment above, Burnett and Harvey Korman play a pair of upper-crust snobs meeting Meara and Stiller, the low-class parents of their son’s bride-to-be.
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