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.
