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  1. on the severed floor
    Sarah Bock Terrified the Severance Set“When I played her, I didn’t feel very scary. But at the end of the day, crew members would come up to me like, ‘You freaked me out.’”
    By Jen Chaney
  2. break room
    Your Outie Is Obsessed With Severance MemesPlease try to enjoy each TikTok equally.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  3. backstories
    ‘Woe’s Hollow’ Was an ORTBO for Severance Production, TooThe Macrodata Refinement Department took a trip to the outside world — er, the Catskills — to learn a lesson in trusting Lumon.
    By Jen Chaney
  4. backstories
    A Guided Tour of Severance’s Goat RoomBen Stiller and Dan Erickson built Lumon’s presumably heinous-smelling Department of Mammalian Nurturability on a golf course in Brooklyn.
    By Jen Chaney
  5. commit to the bit
    Gwendoline Christie Got Hypnotized So She Wouldn’t Spoil SeveranceYou might even say she severed herself.
    By Jen Chaney
  6. lumon is listening
    Yes, It’s KeanuHow the Severance team got the superstar to go full Rankin/Bass for Lumon’s spookiest propaganda push yet.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  7. auto tunes
    Turns Out Ben Stiller Also Yearns to SZA While DrivingMaybe this is what helped inspire Severance season two.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  8. circle of trust
    Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller
    Ben Stiller and His Focker-in-Law Might ReuniteHe and Robert De Niro are reportedly in early talks to meet us in Meet the Parents 4.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  9. lumon+
    Severance Heads Back Into the Office for Season TwoThe new trailer welcomes us back into Lumon.
    By Rebecca Alter
  10. vulture lists
    Every Ben Stiller Movie Performance, RankedAudiences have come to know and love many Stiller personas: jester, auteur, control freak, buff daddy.
    By Sean Malin
  11. tiff 2024
    It Sure Is Nice to Have Ben Stiller BackThe raucous Nutcrackers upholds Stiller’s place as one of American cinema’s funnier objects of humiliation.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  12. unverified
    Millionaires Are Not Into Paying for Twitter VerificationAnd they’re tweeting about it.
    By Wolfgang Ruth
  13. awards
    Idina Menzel Serenades Adam Sandler As Opera ManChris Rock, Conan O’Brien, and others also offered touching tributes to the comedian during his Mark Twain Prize ceremony.
    By Hershal Pandya
  14. controversy telephone
    Ben Stiller Has Always Stood by Tropic ThunderThrough its controversies around blackface and intellectual disability, he makes “no apologies.”
    By Jason P. Frank
  15. video game review
    Kratos’s Contradictions Are Amplified in God of War RagnarökThe muscleman returns for another buccaneering (but conflicted) take on fantasy violence.
    By Lewis Gordon
  16. politics
    Sean Penn and Ben Stiller Are Now Permanently Banned From RussiaBoth actors have expressed public support for Ukraine in the ongoing war.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  17. severance
    What Is Lumon Industries Up to on Severance?What do brain surgery and baby goats have to do with serving Kier? Allow us to theorize.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  18. tv review
    Prepare to Give Yourself Over to SeveranceApple TV+’s immersive, Philip K. Dick–esque mystery-thriller is one of the best new series of 2022.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  19. origin stories
    How a Bookstore Became the Unlikely Birthplace of Alt-ComedyIn the 1990s, a group of misfit comedians who didn’t fit in at clubs created their own.
    By David Peisner
  20. vulture sports
    Adam Sandler Still Gunning for Shooter McGavinShooter has now answered.
    By Rebecca Alter
  21. trump in cinema
    Sorry, Ben Stiller Won’t Be Editing Donald Trump Out of ZoolanderSo quit asking.
    By Halle Kiefer
  22. last night on late night
    Ben Stiller’s Sweetest Story About His Dad Involves a Bad LSD Trip“Every kid calls his parents on LSD, right?”
    By Megh Wright
  23. dads
    Ben Stiller Remembers Jerry: ‘I’ve Never, Ever Thought I Was Funny Like My Dad’“I’ve never really felt a competition, because I would lose, hands down.”
    By Megh Wright
  24. conan archives
    Revisit the Time Jerry Stiller Crashed His Son’s Conan Interview in 1996“This is a personal reflection on me as an actor. I mean, how did I bring my kid up?!”
    By Megh Wright
  25. coronavirus
    Governor Cuomo Has Your Favorite New Yorkers Warn You to Stay Inside AlreadyListen to Ben Stiller. Stay in, and work on your chainsaw art.
    By Halle Kiefer
  26. the industry
    Patricia Arquette Lining Up Her Next Golden Globe With Apple Thriller SeveranceBen Stiller is set to direct the series, based on Dan Erickson’s 2016 Bloodlist-topping script.
    By Halle Kiefer
  27. underrated
    How The Ben Stiller Show Influenced a Generation of Sketch-Comedy WritersSNL senior writer Bryan Tucker explains why the show is worth a rewatch.
    By Will Harris
  28. stiller thriller
    Apple Orders Thriller Series by Ben Stiller, Dearies. It’s Also Got Adam Scott.“Men with dark pasts” are the “florals for spring” of television: groundbreaking!
    By Rebecca Alter
  29. vulture lists
    Every Between Two Ferns Episode, RankedSorting out the highs and lows of Zach Galifianakis’s absurd chat show.
    By Pablo Goldstein
  30. last night on late night
    Conan: How Tom Cruise Embodied Tropic Thunder’s Les Grossman“I want to have fat hands, and I’m going to dance.”
    By Bethy Squires
  31. reunions
    Ethan Hawke Roasts Ben Stiller at Reality Bites Cast ReunionAnd credits Winona Ryder with getting him the part of Troy.
    By Jason Bailey
  32. tv
    Chris Messina Will Play a Long-Haul Trucker on YouTubeYes, you did just read all those words correctly.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  33. last night on late night
    Ben Stiller’s Michael Cohen Is ‘Torn’ During His SNL TestimonyHe’s all out of faith. This is how he feels.
    By Bethy Squires
  34. this! is! jeopardy!
    I Love Seeing Celebrities Freak Out About Their Jeopardy! CluesIt’s the highest game-show honor!
    By Devon Ivie
  35. tributes
    Jimmy Fallon Celebrated His 5-Year Anniversary by Becoming Larry Sanders“Trump got elected because of you.”
    By Ramsey Ess
  36. last night on late night
    Tina Fey, Ben Stiller Stop by Tonight Show Anniversary to Loathe Jimmy FallonThe late-night show is celebrating its host’s fifth anniversary with a fairly dark Larry Sanders Show–inspired special.
    By Halle Kiefer
  37. true crime
    Escape at Dannemora Subject Hates ‘Idiot’ Ben Stiller’s Showtime Series“Ben Stiller is a son-of-a-bitch liar just like the rest of the world. He doesn’t care about the truth.”
    By Halle Kiefer
  38. anatomy of a scene
    How Ben Stiller Made Escape at Dannemora’s Heart-Pounding Prison BreakYes, Paul Dano really did squeeze into that claustrophobia-inducing pipe.
    By Maria Elena Fernandez
  39. last night on late night
    Alec Baldwin Returns to SNL for a Star-Studded Cold OpenAnd shirtless Putin has been working out.
    By Bethy Squires
  40. tv review
    Escape at Dannemora Is an Extraordinary Prison Break Turned HumdrumEven with stellar performances by Patricia Arquette and Benicio del Toro, this Showtime drama is longer than it needs to be.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  41. trailer mix
    Benicio Del Toro Seduces Patricia Arquette in a New Escape at Dannemora TrailerArquette portrays Joyce “Tilly” Mitchell, the prison employee who helped two convicts, played by Benicio Del Toro and Paul Dano, plan a break.
    By Halle Kiefer
  42. book trailers
    If You’re a White Ivy League–Educated Man, Ben Stiller Has Just the Book for YouThe actor wants to get you paid in the book trailer for Gary Shteyngart’s latest novel.
    By Halle Kiefer
  43. saturday night live
    SNL Reunites Stormy Daniels and Trump, SortaOr at least the version of Trump we can tolerate.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  44. last night on late night
    Ben Stiller’s Michael Cohen Vs. Robert De Niro’s Robert Mueller Gets Feisty FastYou can’t milk a cat, but you can bribe a porn star.
    By Devon Ivie
  45. cannes 2017
    The Meyerowitz Stories Is the Best Adam Sandler Film Since Punch-Drunk LoveNoah Baumbach’s new film shows the director at his most generous and insightful.
    By Emily Yoshida
  46. vulture lists
    What’s New on Netflix: October 2017Ready for another trip to the Upside Down? Stranger Things returns to Netflix this month.
    By Andrew Lapin
  47. Will Ben Stiller’s Characters Ever Grow Up?The secret of Stiller’s success: His perennial man-children connect with a universal sense of inadequacy within us all.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  48. Ben Stiller Punches Adam Sandler in The Meyerowitz Stories TrailerNoah Baumbach’s latest film also stars Dustin Hoffman.
    By Ethan Sapienza
  49. Brad’s Status Is a Naked, Grim Exploration of EnvyEven if you relate to Brad, you’ll probably end up wishing he’d save it for his shrink instead of a paying audience.
    By David Edelstein
  50. Everyone in Hollywood Is Envious. Mike White Is Willing to Talk About It.The director of Brad’s Status on his “craven” contemporaries, Dawson’s Creek and Enlightened, and whether he considers himself “successful.”
    By Kyle Buchanan
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