Benjamin Edward "Ben" Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an American comedian, actor, writer, film director, and producer. He is the son of veteran comedians and actors Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara.
After beginning his acting career with a play, Stiller wrote several mockumentaries, and was offered two of his own shows, both entitled The Ben Stiller Show. He began acting in films, and made his directorial debut with Reality Bites. Throughout his career he has since written, starred in, directed, and/or produced over 50 films including Heavyweights, There's Something About Mary, Meet the Parents, Zoolander, Dodgeball, Tropic Thunder, Greenberg and Night at the Museum. In addition, he has had multiple cameos in music videos, television shows, and films.
Stiller is a member of the comedic acting brotherhood colloquially known as the Frat Pack. His films have grossed more than $2.1 billion in Canada and the United States, with an average of $73 million per film. Throughout his career, he has received several awards and honors including an Emmy Award, several MTV Movie Awards, and a Teen Choice Award.
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A weekly behind the scenes look at the world of TV comedy in which host Stiller was constantly getting grief from co-writer Kahn and other cast members. Aired on MTV in 1990.
Keywords: sketch-comedy
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When once-up-and-coming indie film starlet Halley Feiffer loses her boyfriend, her agent and her career in one fell swoop she finally realizes that something in her life has got to change... she has to become WAY MORE FAMOUS! Armed with a stolen script and two pitchers of sangria, Halley enlists the help of her brother Ryan and his boyfriend to make her own movie, starring herself (of course) as herself, and any A-list celebrity she can land along the way. From seducing the Karate Kid to kidnapping Hollywood's biggest name in comedy, Halley will stop at nothing to get her movie made even it means hurting the only people who truly care about her.
Keywords: apostrophe-in-title, celebrity, claim-in-title, fame, new-york, new-york-city, punctuation-in-title
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When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But, when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.
Keywords: based-on-tv-series, reference-to-dustin-hoffman, reference-to-elvis-presley, reference-to-james-bond, two-word-title
Eat, drink and try not to kill each other.
Steve: She was only 15 years old. She was only... You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off.
Steve, Rob: Come, come, Mr. Bond, you derive as much pleasure from killing as I do.
Steve: Death is but a moment... Cowardice is a lifetime of affliction.
Rob: You know, when someone dies, and they go to the funeral, and they say, you know, "We should have done this when he was *alive*! He would have *loved* this!"::Steve: Hmmm, what, cremated him?
Steve: Gentlemen to bed! For at daybreak I will breakfast.::Rob: Sire, sire! Tis a continental breakfast. Will only take twenty minutes max.
Rob: You could have a costume drama here, couldn't you?::Steve: I would love-I'd absolutely-I'd just love to do a costume drama in these hills, leaping, vaulting over dry stone walls with a scabbard, with that dead look in my eyes, 'cause I've seen so many horrors that I'm sort of immune to them, and I'd say something like, "Gentlemen, to bed! Gentlemen, to bed, for we leave at first light. Tomorrow we battle, and we may lose our lives. But remember: death is but a moment. Cowardice is a lifetime affliction."::Rob: Nice.::Steve: To bed, for we rise at daybreak!::Rob: Very good. Very impressive.::Steve: But they always, they always leave at daybreak. They never leave at, you know, nine-thirty. "Gentlemen to bed, for we leave at nine-thirty!"::Rob: Ish.::Steve: Ish. "Gentlemen to bed, for we rise at... What time is the battle? About, oh, twelve o'clock? Twelve o'clock. How is it on horseback, about three hours? So we leave about eight, eight-thirty?"::Rob: Eight-thirty for nine.::Steve: "Gentlemen, to bed! For we leave at eight-thirty for nine. And we rise at just after daybreak. Seven-thirty, so just after daybreak. Gentlemen to bed, for we leave at nine-thirty on the dot. On the dot."::Rob: Do you want to have a run, sire, in the morning? Just to loosen up, sire.::Steve: Yes.::Rob: Another thing they never say is, "Right! Well! We'd better make a move. I want to get back in daylight. We'd better make a move."::Steve: To bed! Tomorrow we ride! We leave at ten-ish.
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A television actor drinks too much and gets blackballed from the industry, and then he decides to break back in by directing his own movie. Eventually, he gets sober, and then falls off the wagon and goes crazy and turns his film into a musical.
Keywords: character-name-in-title
Danny Roane: When I think of Hell I think of the Devil dancing in licks of flames with lost souls behind cars and in cages. Can you get some of those by the way?::John Imbagliado: Oh yeah, I'll just go out to the prop store and pick up some lost souls.
Deidra Fennigan: [referring to Danny Roane] I haven't seen him since he went into rehab for I think about, DINK, the fourth time.
Nathan West: My mind is made of Hitler.
Leslie: Okay, sure... I'll just do it like this because I'm dyslectic and sideways.
Danny Roane: At least get some flames coming out here.::John Imbagliado: You mean real flames?::Danny Roane: Yeah.::John Imbagliado: No.::Danny Roane: It's just gas, get some tubing it'll be easy.::John Imbagliado: No, the whole thing will go up like a dinner box.::Danny Roane: Well you just make sure the whole thing is flame retarded.::John Imbagliado: Excuse me?::Danny Roane: Get some stuff on here that makes it flame retarded.::John Imbagliado: Retardant.::Danny Roane: What?::John Imbagliado: It's not flame retarded, it's ...::Danny Roane: Well make sure it's flame retarded that's my point.::John Imbagliado: No there's no such word as flame retarded, it's FLAME RETARDANT.::Danny Roane: No.::John Imbagliado: NO.::Danny Roane: No, it's retarded. Like it's slow to the flames. Flame retarded means it's slow to the flames.::John Imbagliado: You know I wish you wouldn't do that. My cousin is retarded, he's forty two years-old and all day long he eats mayonnaise with a spoon. So just stop with those jokes, I'd appreciate it.
Paul Gunderson: Is a line producer important to a film? I don't know, let me ask you a question - are your feet important to you walking?
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Hollywood comedian/actor Pauly Shore loses everything: his house, nobody in Hollywood wants to represent him, he moves back home with his mom and is now parking cars at the Comedy Store. Then one night when he's up in his mom's loft, a dead famous comedian appears who tells Pauly to kill himself cause he'll go down as a comedic genius who died before his time. Pauly then fakes his own death, and the media goes crazy. Celebrities are talking about him on MTV and girls are fighting over him on Jerry Springer. It's everything that he wanted...his plan worked. A week or so later the LAPD is tipped off about his whereabouts and they break down the door of the seedy motel room that he's hiding out in and throw him in LA County's celebrity wing.
Keywords: actor-director, actor-name-in-title, actor-playing-himself, black-comedy, celebrity, character-name-in-title, claim-in-title, death, directed-by-star, faking-own-death
Hollywood will never be the same.
Pauly Shore: Is there a part in there for me? Hey, is there a part in there for me?
Pauly Shore: Hey, aren't you Tom Sizemore?::Michael Madsen's girlfriend: No, this is Michael Madsen.::Pauly Shore: What's the difference?::Michael Madsen's girlfriend: Six inches.
Pauly Shore: FUCK YOU SANDLER!::Adam Sandler: [Offscreen, in a mocking voice] Fuck you Sandler! Fuck you Sandl... AHHH HORSESHIT!