The Ben Stiller Show
American television series 1990-1993 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Ben Stiller Show is an American sketch comedy series that aired on MTV from 1990 to 1991, and then 12 episodes on Fox from September 27, 1992, to January 17, 1993, with a 13th episode of the Fox version airing on 1995 on Comedy Central. The Fox program starred Ben Stiller, Andy Dick, Janeane Garofalo and Bob Odenkirk. Character actor John F. O'Donohue also appeared in every episode.
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The Ben Stiller Show | |
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Created by | Ben Stiller Judd Apatow |
Written by | Ben Stiller Judd Apatow Robert Cohen David Cross Brent Forrester Bob Odenkirk Sultan Pepper Dino Stamatopoulos |
Starring | Ben Stiller Andy Dick Janeane Garofalo Bob Odenkirk |
Theme music composer | Dweezil Zappa |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 13 |
Production | |
Running time | ~23 minutes |
Production company | HBO Independent Productions |
Original release | |
Network | Fox Comedy Central (episode 13) |
Release | September 27, 1992 (1992-09-27) ā August 26, 1995 (1995-08-26) |
The program featured numerous filmed comedy segments, many of which parodied middle of the 1980s to beginning of the 1990s pop culture. Despite mostly positive reviews, Fox canceled the series after only 13 episodes, due to low ratings.[1][2]
Unlike most sketch comedy programs, The Ben Stiller Show did not use a studio audience, and was the first ever Fox sketch comedy program not to use a laugh track. The semi spinoff, The Andy Dick Show, used the same format. After cancelation, the series won the 1993 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Variety or Music Program.