# RIP Jerry Stiller **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [May 11, 2020, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jerry-stiller/853576 "2020-05-11T10:45:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2020, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jerry-stiller/853576/21 "2020-05-11T20:30:13Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > mansiere The bro. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2020, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jerry-stiller/853576/22 "2020-05-11T23:39:44Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I still quote him in my head when I meet someone I don’t like: > > “This guy…this guy…he’s not my kinda guy!” > > I think he was translating from Korean on Seinfeld. I haven’t seen Seinfeld in almost 20 years. I’m always telling my wife: “Don’t blame the mechanism!” ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jerry-stiller/853576/23 "2020-05-12T00:44:58Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I’m always telling my wife: “Don’t blame the mechanism!” Is that from the same episode? I don’t remember it very well. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jerry-stiller/853576/24 "2020-05-12T01:30:06Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I used to watch his routines with wife Anne Meara all the time. Great stuff. > > I never watched _Seinfeld_ or _The King of Queens_, so I don’t think of him as “Angry Old Man” He wasn’t supposed to be an angry old man. The character on Seinfeld was supposed to be meek but he realized it wasn’t working. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/BKiWx0aNy3w/hqdefault.jpg "Jerry Stiller on being cast on Seinfeld - TelevisionAcademy.com/Interviews") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKiWx0aNy3w) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jerry-stiller/853576/25 "2020-05-12T02:55:50Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Is that from the same episode? I don’t remember it very well. Just another quote. I don’t remember the particular episode, but he’s trying to tell his wife how to move the car seat, and she’s saying “It doesn’t work!”. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jerry-stiller/853576/26 "2020-05-12T21:47:38Z")
My favorite was when he went after Elaine, You wanna piece of me?! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jerry-stiller/853576/27 "2020-05-12T23:00:19Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > He wasn’t supposed to be an angry old man. The character on Seinfeld was supposed to be meek but he realized it wasn’t working. > > [https://youtu.be/BKiWx0aNy3w](https://youtu.be/BKiWx0aNy3w) Who did he say he replaced? I replayed and replayed and all I can get is John rllrlr. Also, his Estelle Harris is spot on! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jerry-stiller/853576/28 "2020-05-13T00:01:15Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Who did he say he replaced? I replayed and replayed and all I can get is John rllrlr. [John Randolph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Randolph_(actor)), apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jerry-stiller/853576/29 "2020-05-13T00:02:29Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Who did he say he replaced? I replayed and replayed and all I can get is John rllrlr. Also, his Estelle Harris is spot on! John Randolph. [Watch the scene before and after Jerry Stiller filmed it.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EggYnwMWyE) ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jerry-stiller/853576/30 "2020-05-13T14:06:52Z")
I got to work with Jerry once. After shooting a few days with Anne Meara a year or two before, I showed up to work on [A Fish In The Bathtub](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126908/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1). Anne and I had a lovely chat, she always showed up on fire and ready to work- with her lines down cold. Jerry, as I learned, worked his lines all through the day because he was afraid of going up and wrecking a take. Total opposites in terms of prep for a scene. He was very good at his craft and very sweet and I’ll never forget the big wedding dance scene we shot. The quiet heartbreaking reunion afterwards between Meara and Stiller had the crew in tears. Thank you for your gifts, Jerry. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jerry-stiller/853576.md?page=1)