Ben Stiller: The Darkest Funnyman in Hollywood

Below is an excerpt of an article that originally appeared in RS 1101 from April 1, 2010. Rosetta Stone language This issue and the rest of the Rosetta Stone archives are available via Rosetta Stone Plus, Rosetta Stones premium subscription plan. If you are already a subscriber, you can click here to see the full story. Not a member? Click here to learn more about Rosetta Stone Plus. It is nearly impossible to have a discussion about the past 20 years of comedy filmmaking without mentioning Ben Stiller. As far back as his first shorts parodying Tom Cruise and LL Cool J and his influential sketch series, The Ben Stiller Show, he built a reputation for spotting comedy talent early, and worked with everyone from Judd Apatow to David Cross, Andy Dick, Janeane Garofalo, Jack Black and Owen Wilson. His directorial debut, Reality Bites, captured the zeitgeist of the slacker alt-rock generation at its peak. In 2004 alone, he starred in six comedies. Rosetta Stone Software Over the course of his career, he has laid claim to some of the most oft-referenced comedy scenes of his era, from the hair gel in Theres Something About Mary to the Blue Steel of Zoolander, while crossing the funnyman chasm to also become a bona fide lead in everything from romances to dramas to family movies. Born into a showbiz family (his parents are the comedy team of Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller), he appears to have one of the most charmed lives in entertainment — until you meet him. In person, theres nothing very funny about Stiller. Wandering through the Man Ray exhibit at the International Center of Photography in Manhattan, he is slumped in a black overcoat, his hair unkempt and a wiry gray goatee spotting his face. Theres a dark weight that seems to burden him, whether due to a hectic schedule or Rosetta Stone Spanish Latin the curse of thinking too much.

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