turned on the idea that no one could tell an irish name from a catholic name and they should never been thrown in the same dating pool. and the fact that all of us in the audience knew that stiller and mira really were that impossible couple that she was married to the jewish man she was performeding with lifted that bit into the realm of important comedy. comedy that teaches an important lesson in a way that nothing else can. and i can tell you as a little irish catholic boy growing up in boston and still a long way from dating, watching stiller and meara opened my eyes to possibilities that i never saw in my neighborhood. anne meara was a serious actress doing shake spears in the park and such things when her husband, jerry stiller, lured her into working as a comedy team with him. fame as a comedy team brought them both many many more acting
and i can tell you as a little irish catholic boy growing up in boston and still a long way from dating, watching stiller and meara opened my eyes to possibilities that i never saw in my neighborhood. anne meara was a serious actress doing shake spears in the park and such things when her husband, jerry stiller, lured her into working as a comedy team with him. fame as a comedy team brought them both many, many more acting offers. they have two children, amy and ben stiller. anne and jerry kept working throughout parenthood and grandparenthood. anne meara was nominated for four emmys and won a writer s guild award for the 1983 tv movie if other women. here are anne and jerry in a movie cowritten by their son, ben stiller, how they played a trick on the new york times about an obituary. do you know that jerry ford, to get my father, eddie meara s