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Que una pareja haya estado casada durante sesenta y dos años es algo de por sí extraordinario. Ni hablar si esa pareja, Jerry Stiller y Anne Meara, conformó durante buena parte de ese tiempo una de las duplas cómicas más emblemáticas de la televisión estadounidense, con presencia regular en shows nocturnos de la talla de The Ed Sullivan Show, que allá se seguía con la misma devoción con que acá se veían las novelas de Alberto Migré. Fallecidos en 2020 y 2015, respectivamente, Stiller y Meara tuvieron dos hijos, Ben y Amy, a quienes incorporaron de pequeños en sus rutinas. Lo hacían como un juego, probablemente sin imaginar que Ben se convertiría en uno de los rostros centrales de la Nueva Comedia Americana y en un director capaz desmontar la cultura pop con bisturí quirúrgico.

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00:00I was thinking of what the opening of the movie could be.
00:03I see us, brother and sister, together.
00:06Maybe the idea of this question of why are you even making the movie?
00:09Me asking you?
00:09Yeah.
00:10Okay.
00:10We're on camera, so should I do it now?
00:13Sure.
00:14So, Ben.
00:16We come from a showbiz family.
00:18Now the comedy of Stiller and Mira.
00:21Jerry Stiller and Anne Mira.
00:22Anne Mira and Jerry Stiller.
00:26We grew up around them, working together and improvising.
00:29And that's what we did.
00:30Because they did it.
00:30They're looking at not only my partner in comedy, this is the mother of my two kids.
00:34This is the father of one.
00:36When they were working, I remember sometimes hearing laughter, sometimes hearing raised voices,
00:41never knowing if that was real or them rehearsing something.
00:45We don't know, Ben.
00:46That's why we're so messed up.
00:50Your dad documented everything.
00:53Letters.
00:54Movies.
00:54Tapes.
00:55They're not superstars.
00:57They're just performers who are married with kids and trying to do their best with both worlds.
01:03Your father was a kind of a saint.
01:08Your mom kind of scared me a little bit.
01:10She looked at me and I could tell, she knows you're up to no good.
01:13I see dad working so hard and mom just letting it flow.
01:18When you tell it, it's not funny.
01:20And if I tell it, it becomes funny.
01:22Ouch.
01:23When I read this, my desperate need to tie what we do on stage with when we're together
01:29has created the gap between us.
01:31I cannot be under that pressure.
01:34I don't know where the act ends and the marriage begins.
01:38My mom wanted to be happy, independent of performing.
01:42This was harder for my dad because he had such a need for approval.
01:46I see that parallel with your dad.
01:48You're trying to balance being a director, an actor, but also just a father.
01:52Success can get in the way of marriage.
01:55We had to stop doing this act.
01:57They have this incredible marriage and I wanted to understand how they did it.
02:02This is all of the truth of our lives.
02:06Whatever you say, they'll near you forever.
02:09You'll never be lost.

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