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The Joy of Positivity: The Ben Stiller Show

The Joy of Positivity: The Ben Stiller Show

While still an ambitious ambitious young man Ben Stiller co-created and starred in a sketch show that was too good and too inside for its own good.

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Jul 12, 2023
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Before he was one of the biggest movie stars in the world Ben Stiller was a passionate, ambitious young man behind the FOX cult non-hit The Ben Stiller Show, which was as influential and beloved as it was short-lived. Like a much more commercial Albert Brooks, Ben Stiller chose as his favorite satirical subject the outsized egos and crazed narcissism of show-business phonies.

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