Best Of: Ben Stiller / Cynthia Erivo
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This week on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me we talk with our panel Josh Gobelman, Dulce Sloan, and Faith Saley about the journalists who were banned this week from the White House. You think they were really sad or is it one of them days it was like a snow day as a kid? Yeah. They just like They were probably just forgetting what stale Big Mac smells like. Don't miss our full conversation and the rest of our games.
Listen to the Wait Wait Don't Tell Me podcast and the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. From WHYY in Philadelphia, I'm Terry Gross with Fresh Air Weekend. Today, Ben Stiller on his new documentary about his parents and being raised by them. Ben's father, Jerry Stiller, co-starred on Seinfeld as Frank Ostanza, George's father. Ben's mother, Anne Mira,
was an actress. In the sixties and seventies they were famous as the comedy duo Stiller and Mira. When Ben's parents were on the road, he sometimes went rogue, like going to Studio 54 with his older sister when he was thirteen. He got past the bouncer dressed appropriately. They put me in a yellow and green polka dotted Fiorucci shirt and an army jacket and these um Mickey Mouse sunglasses.
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