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"Ben Stiller was on SNL," you ask? The answer is yes. He was a featured player for a single year in 1989.

Born in 1965 to comedians Jerry Stiller ("Seinfeld") and Ann Meara, the younger Stiller was practically destined to become a comic as well. After dropping out of UCLA, he made a short satire of the movie "The Color of Money." The short film caught Lorne Michael's eye and Stiller was hired as a featured SNL player.

In 1990, "The Ben Stiller Show" aired for a single season on television. While it didn't catch on at the time, critics raved about it and it has since become a cult favorite. Stiller's film career took off from there with "There's Something About Mary" propelling him to the top of the Hollywood heap. Besides acting in numerous Hollywood features, he often writes his own scripts and has stepped behind the camera as the director of three films: "Reality Bites," "The Cable Guy," and "Zoolander."
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