"[This bit] came out of a need to find another piece of ourselves [for our act]," Jerry Stiller said of this clip of he and wife Anne Meara performing on The Ed Sullivan Show. "We were running out of 'tall woman and short guy.' "
"Jerry, it came out of a need because we had a date on Sullivan like in a week and a half and we had to have a sketch," Meara corrects him.
That exchange, part of an interview with the Archive of American Television, captures Stiller and Meara's chemistry wonderfully, as does the bit they're talking about, a riff on...
"Jerry, it came out of a need because we had a date on Sullivan like in a week and a half and we had to have a sketch," Meara corrects him.
That exchange, part of an interview with the Archive of American Television, captures Stiller and Meara's chemistry wonderfully, as does the bit they're talking about, a riff on...
- 5/25/2015
- by Alex Heigl, @alex_heigl
- People.com - TV Watch
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