RIP Jerry Stiller

[Alex Kulak2]

Posted: 5/11/20 at 9:05am

Passed away of natural causes today at 92. A shame, I always loved when he popped up in movies

[Wee Thomas2]

Posted: 5/11/20 at 10:42am

Hopefully he has found serenity

[BCfitasafiddle]

Posted: 5/11/20 at 10:44am

Brilliantly funny. Downright joyful to watch him. Time for some Seinfeld and Hairspray binging. RIP, great one. 

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 5/11/20 at 11:02am

Lifetime has had weekly KING OF QUEENS marathons on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays so I’ve had a fabulous fill of Jerry Stiller’s hilarious Arthur Spooner for weeks now. He lived a fantastic life and now joins Anne Meara to reunite their comedy team. Ben is part of an American legacy.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 5/11/20 at 11:51am

In the 1953 Phoenix Theater production of Coriolanus (produced by John Houseman ) Stiller, along with Gene Saks and Jack Klugman formed (as told by Houseman in the 1980 memoir Front and Center) "the best trio of Shakespearean clowns that I have ever seen on any stage".He appeared on Broadway in Terrence McNally’s frantic farce “The Ritz” in 1975 and David Rabe’s dark drama “Hurlyburly” in 1984. Off Broadway, he was in “The Threepenny Opera”; in Central Park.

I well remember Stiller and Meara.

Enjoy a great Festivus for the Rest of Us forever!

Updated On: 5/11/20 at 11:51 AM

[Plannietink08]

Posted: 5/11/20 at 3:18pm

The OG Wilbur Turnblad. Such a wonderful actor. 

[luvcaroline]

Posted: 5/11/20 at 4:56pm

My earliest memories of comedy routines included Stiller and Meara on Ed Sullivan. I would get excited when I knew that they would be on. Such incredible talent. RIP.

[Jarethan]

Posted: 5/11/20 at 5:13pm

I am realizing that I have seen him in a number of shows, including Passione (a one-week flop in which he gave a very fine performance), Two Gentlemen from Verona, in which he had fairly small but noticeable role (probably more noticeable because he was so recognizable from all his years of performing with Anne Meara); Hurly-burly, again a not very large role, but another terrific performance; and The Ritz.  I can still remember him screaming 'Get Proclo (sic)' in a boom that was probably heard blocks away.  He was the definition of larger than life.  In a very good way.

He was one of those people you thought was going to live forever, and he almost did.

[SFFrontRow]

Posted: 5/11/20 at 6:34pm

luvcaroline said: "My earliest memories of comedy routines included Stiller and Meara on Ed Sullivan. I would get excited when I knew that they would be on. Such incredible talent. RIP."

I was just thinking the same thing, Their humor together was subtle, contemporary, and character-based. I grew up on that kind of humor. They were excellent together and separately over decades. And now they are playing a room somewhere up in heaven.

[George in DC]

Posted: 5/11/20 at 8:12pm

He was a brilliant actor. He will be missed.