Ben Stiller (2020)

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 24 May 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Before Ben Stiller became one of the most famous actors and directors in Hollywood, he was a kid growing up in New York City with a pair of comedy legends for parents: Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. In this week's "Sunday Sitdown," Willie Geist gets together with Stiller over Zoom to talk about his beloved father, Jerry, who passed away in early May at the age of 92.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:06.4	My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.
0:09.8	It's great to be back with you for a new Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:13.4	As you may have noticed, it's been a few weeks since we've had one because frankly, we
0:17.6	can't get into rooms with people and sit down and talk the way we usually do for our Sunday
0:21.9	conversations.
0:23.8	But this week we have a special treat for you.
0:26.3	The great Ben Stiller who has been on this podcast before and who has been a guest for our
0:31.6	interviews on Sunday today.
0:34.5	We wanted to talk to him about his father, the late Jerry Stiller, the late great Jerry
0:39.0	Stiller, the late hysterical Jerry Stiller, who you probably know by now, passed away at
0:44.4	the age of 92 just a few days ago.
0:47.4	Ben was very gracious.
0:48.4	He said, yeah, I'd love to come on and just talk about my dad.
0:51.4	Ben doesn't have a movie to promote.
0:53.7	Didn't want to talk about a charity or anything else.
0:56.0	He said, can we just talk about my dad?
0:57.8	And of course, the answer was yes.
0:59.8	So the way this went was, I walked across the driveway to my garage, sat down.
1:05.3	We set up a camera.
1:07.0	You'll see the full interview on Sunday today this weekend on NBC.
1:11.2	And I talked to him into a screen basically on Zoom, like you've been talking to people
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