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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. lumon+
    Severance Heads Back Into the Office for Season TwoThe new teaser reveals a date and a brunette Gwendoline Christie.
    By Rebecca Alter
  4. unverified
    Millionaires Are Not Into Paying for Twitter VerificationAnd they’re tweeting about it.
    By Wolfgang Ruth
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. vulture sports
    Adam Sandler Still Gunning for Shooter McGavinShooter has now answered.
    By Rebecca Alter
  13. trump in cinema
    Sorry, Ben Stiller Won’t Be Editing Donald Trump Out of ZoolanderSo quit asking.
    By Halle Kiefer
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. vulture lists
    Every Between Two Ferns Episode, RankedSorting out the highs and lows of Zach Galifianakis’s absurd chat show.
    By Pablo Goldstein
  22. 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
  23. reunions
    Ethan Hawke Roasts Ben Stiller at Reality Bites Cast ReunionAnd credits Winona Ryder with getting him the part of Troy.
    By Jason Bailey
  24. tv
    Chris Messina Will Play a Long-Haul Trucker on YouTubeYes, you did just read all those words correctly.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  25. 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
  26. this! is! jeopardy!
    I Love Seeing Celebrities Freak Out About Their Jeopardy! CluesIt’s the highest game-show honor!
    By Devon Ivie
  27. tributes
    Jimmy Fallon Celebrated His 5-Year Anniversary by Becoming Larry Sanders“Trump got elected because of you.”
    By Ramsey Ess
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. saturday night live
    SNL Reunites Stormy Daniels and Trump, SortaOr at least the version of Trump we can tolerate.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. Ben Stiller Punches Adam Sandler in The Meyerowitz Stories TrailerNoah Baumbach’s latest film also stars Dustin Hoffman.
    By Ethan Sapienza
  41. 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
  42. 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
  43. Netflix’s ‘Meyerowitz Stories’ Teaser Features Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, […]Last year it was announced that Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller were teaming up to star in Noah Baumbach’s next movie, and today Netflix released […]
    By Megh Wright
  44. Ben Stiller Is a Sad Dad Named Brad in the Brad’s Status TrailerCo-starring Jemaine Clement, Luke Wilson, and Michael Sheen, hopefully as dads too.
    By Ethan Sapienza
  45. Check Out the ‘Brad’s Status’ Trailer Featuring Ben Stiller, Jemaine […]Last year, Ben Stiller signed on to star in a movie written and directed by Mike White and produced by Brad Pitt called Brad’s Status, and […]
    By Megh Wright
  46. casting couch
    Dev Patel Will Star in a Movie About Chippendales (Sadly Not As a Dancer)He’ll play Somen Banerjee, a co-founder of the strip-club empire.
    By Jackson McHenry
  47. new gigs
    Ben Stiller to Direct Showtime Drama About the Real-Life Dannemora Prison BreakEscape at Dannemora will star Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Arquette, and Paul Dano.
    By Hunter Harris
  48. love is dead
    Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor Split After 17 Years of Marriage“With tremendous love and respect for each other, and the 18 years we spent together as a couple, we have made the decision to separate.”
    By Halle Kiefer
  49. cannes 2017
    Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller Get to Beat Each Other Up in The Meyerowitz StoriesFinishing the job they started in Happy Gilmore.
    By Jada Yuan
  50. they’re all gonna laugh at you!
    Sandy Wexler Is Just Adam Sandler Hanging Out With His Friends — It’s GreatIt’s a movie about how fun it is to make movies with your friends.
    By Jesse David Fox
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