Ben Stiller

It's so interesting because when you really analyze it,

to think about what the downside was.

At the time, there wasn't a downside for us as kids.

We were just living in this world where my parents would go out, and either they'd go out late and play a nightclub.

I remember when they played nightclubs in New York, and that was really exciting for us.

We'd get to stay up late, hang out with the grownups, interesting, funny people coming in and out of the house.

They would have these New Year's Eve parties, my parents, at their apartment.

in the late seventies and the eighties that were just, you know, amazing.

And as kids, it was really fun to be around.

I loved going on sets, uh, when they would go out to LA, if they do a show like courtship of Eddie's father to be, be on, you know, the Paramount studios lot.

And,

For me, it made me want to, you know, make movies.

Being around that, it was very clear early on that that's what I wanted to do.

So it was a lot of fun times and more interesting to my sister and I than school, for sure.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was awful.

It was awful.

I mean, I look at their faces because basically what they you know, they were co-hosting the Mike Douglas show.

And what that meant was they would sit there with him as all the other guests came on and they would do a week of shows in one day down in Philadelphia.