Remembering Jerry Stiller
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I recall him and his wife Ann Meara appearing on various variety shows as a comedy team and those interludes were a staccato of piecemeal flashes in the pan compared to later ...
He then appeared to go on hiatus where I never saw anything of him until Seinfeld came along. He became about the only character on that show I could tolerate after a time.
I attribute this to network syndication sticking the comedy up the world's ass whether we liked it or not.
Then he was on The King of Queens and I suffered through a spate of gd Kevin James just to see what it was all about.
The thing about Jerry Stiller that I could relate to was the portrayals of explosive anger viz a viz an otherwise frenetic nature which has been a lot like me over the years.
Today, Ben Stiller announced via Twitter that Jerry had passed at age 92 of "natural causes". Rest in peace.