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Ben Stiller is an innovative actor, director, producer and writer who continues to imprint his unique comedic and dramatic perspective on film, television and stage. He is currently in production on The Untitled Farrelly Brothers Comedy which re-teams Stiller with the writing-directing team of Peter and Bobby Farrelly. Loosely inspired by the 1972 classic hit, The Heartbreak Kid, the film tells the story of a man who hastily weds a woman who he thinks is perfect--until he falls in love with another woman during the honeymoon. Michelle Monaghan and Malin Ackerman will co-star with the Farrelly's Conundrum Entertainment producing for Dreamworks. Additionally, Stiller will executive produce, direct, and guest star in a pilot for CBS which will star his wife Christine Taylor. The pilot, written by Ajay Sahgal, is about an actress married to Ben Stiller who contends with her family members and their involvement in her life.
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The Ben Stiller Show was a sketch comedy television show that aired on FOX from September 1992 to January 1993. It was a spin-off from the successful MTV series of the same name. The show starred Ben Stiller, Andy Dick, Janeane Garofalo and Bob Odenkirk. Character actor John F. O'Donohue ... appeared in every episode. It featured numerous filmed comedy segments, many of which parodied mid-1980's to early-1990's pop-culture. Despite excellent reviews, Fox canceled the series after only 12 episodes, due to low ratings.
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Ben Stiller has forced 20th Century Fox to move the shooting of Shawn Levy's Night at The Museum from Montr al to Vancouver. Mr. Stiller apparently didn't want to shoot in Montr al. He wouldn't sign the dotted line without the location change. According to a city official: 'Ben Stiller doesn't like Montr al.' The move will have a serious repercussion of Montr al's film industry. According to the newspaper, 500 Montrealers would have worked on the production. Close to 4 million had already been invested on sets.
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The comic mastermind behind some of the funniest films of the past decade, Ben Stiller has fought his way to the top of the pyramid with his own, unique brand of humor. Constantly approached to direct, write and appear in a number of risky comedies, Ben has become one of the most highly sought-after comics in the business. As the son of comic legends Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, Ben was already emerged in the world of comedy before he ever said his first swear word, but he followed aspirations of becoming a director after working with Steven Spielberg on “Empire of the Sun” as a young kid. Producing his own short films using a Super 8 camera in his spare time, Ben finally went off to UCLA’s esteemed film school in 1983, only to return home to New York the same year.
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In "Along Came Polly," Ben Stiller portrays risk-averse Reuben Feffer, whose best-laid plans for life and love careen wildly off track when his bride (Debra Messing) dumps him on their honeymoon for a muscle-bound scuba instructor (Hank Azaria). Stunned, humiliated and in the grip of acute indigestion, Reuben plans to play it safer than ever. But a chance encounter with an adventure-craving, childhood friend named Polly (Jennifer Aniston) shoots him into a whirlwind of extreme sports, spicy foods, ferrets, salsa dancing and living in the moment. The film ... stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bryan Brown and Alec Baldwin. The film is a Universal Pictures presentation of a Jersey Films Production, with Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher producing. "Along Came Polly" is written and directed by John Hamburg.
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Ironically, nine months after the show was canceled, "The Ben Stiller Show" ended up winning the Emmy for best writing in a comedy or variety program. But by then Stiller had hit Hollywood and the rest of the cast had gone on to other things. Most importantly, Odenkirk proceeded -- with one of the show's writers, David Cross -- to carry on the tradition with "Mr. Show" on HBO and the crack in the SNL armor become a gaping hole with programs like " Mad TV" galloping into the breech, rendering SNL irrelevant. And it all started with Ben Stiller and Company.
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