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  • Sep 27, 1992
  • FOX
  • Sep 27, 1992
The Ben Stiller Show

Summary The Ben Stiller Show is a sketch comedy show that aired on Fox from 1992 to 1993. Each episode features Ben Stiller, Andy Dick, Janeane Garofalo, and Bob Odenkirk introducing several comedy sketches.The show was never a hit, usually hitting near last in the ratings, and was cancelled after only 12 episodes, leaving one episode unaired.Ju...

  • FOX
  • Sep 27, 1992
  • FOX
  • Sep 27, 1992
The Ben Stiller Show
Season 1
Season Premiere: Sep 27, 1992
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
75
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Summary The Ben Stiller Show is a sketch comedy show that aired on Fox from 1992 to 1993. Each episode features Ben Stiller, Andy Dick, Janeane Garofalo, and Bob Odenkirk introducing several comedy sketches.The show was never a hit, usually hitting near last in the ratings, and was cancelled after only 12 episodes, leaving one episode unaired.Ju...

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Episode 1 • Sep 27, 1992 • 23 m
Pilot
Episode 2 • Oct 4, 1992 • 23 m
With Bobcat Goldthwait
Special guest star BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT joins the cast to introduce several comedy sketches. Sketches include: Tom Cruise: Dress Casual in which Stiller spoofs Tom Cruise re-enacting some of his most famous roles in a Broadway performance;
Episode 3 • Oct 18, 1992 • 24 m
With James Doohan
Special guest star JAMES DOOHAN ("Star Trek") joins the cast to introduce several comedy sketches. Sketches include: Legends Of Springsteen; Amish Studs; Michael Pheret,Talent Agency with Run-DMC; Legends Of Springsteen, Part 2;
Episode 4 • Oct 25, 1992 • 24 m
On Melrose Avenue
Episode 5 • Nov 1, 1992 • 24 m
With Colin Quinn
Special guest star COLIN QUINN joins the cast at a train station to introduce several comedy sketches.
Episode 6 • Nov 8, 1992 • 30 m
With Sarah Jessica Parker
Special guest star SARAH JESSICA PARKER joins the cast on a picnic and introduces several comedy sketches.
Episode 7 • Nov 15, 1992 • 24 m
With Rob Morrow
Special guest star ROB MORROW joins the cast to introduce several comedy sketches. Sketches include: Counting with Bruce Springsteen; Grady's Oats with Dana Gould; The Grungies; Ben Stiller's Wheel Of Filler-Jewish Fly Guys;
Episode 8 • Dec 6, 1992 • 24 m
With Flea
Special guest star Flea joins the cast to introduce several comedy sketches. Sketches include: Hair Styling with Bruce featuring Gary Coleman; Woody Allen's Bride Of Frankenstein; Club Fredrick; Michael Pheret with Alex Karras;
Episode 9 • Dec 13, 1992 • 24 m
With Garry Shandling
Special guest star Gerry Shandling joins the cast to introduce several comedy sketches.
Episode 10 • Dec 20, 1992 • 22 m
With Dennis Miller
Special guest star DENNIS MILLER ("Saturday Night Live") joins the cast to introduce several comedy sketches. Sketches include: Three Men and an Old Man with Stiller as Steve Guttenberg "Manson" TV Show;
Episode 11 • Jan 3, 1993 • 24 m
At the Beach
From a beach, the cast introduces several comedy sketches. FRED WILLARD (Best In Show, Waiting For Guffman) guest stars. Sketches include: Relaxation Tape No. 2; Roundtable; Ben, Janeane And Andy on Beach;
Episode 12 • Jan 17, 1993 • 23 m
A Few Good Scouts
The cast introduces several comedy sketches. Sketches include: A Few Good Scouts - a parody of A Few Good Men; "Cops" in Medieval Times; Ben Stiller's Music News with Marky Mark (Mark Wahlberg) and Casey Kasem;
Episode 13 • Aug 26, 1995 • 22 m
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
75
77% Positive
10 Reviews
15% Mixed
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8% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
75
77% Positive
10 Reviews
15% Mixed
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8% Negative
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100
Jul 23, 2013
It's drastically different from anything I've ever seen on TV: wildly funny, scathingly sardonic and brilliantly executed. [25 Sep 1992]
By John Freeman FULL REVIEW
90
Jul 23, 2013
Its sharp, wily wit will be immediately appreciable. Here is a comedy construct that hits like "The Brothers Karamazov" and plays like the brothers Marx. [25 Sep 1992]
By Miles Beller FULL REVIEW
90
Jul 2, 2013
Stiller is capable of turning out a dead-on TV or movie parody, like his takeoff on Cape Fear, with a grownup Eddie Munster as the De Niro-esque psycho. But he rarely settles for the frisson of a good impersonation; his sketches usually give the satiric knife an extra twist or two.
By Richard Zoglin FULL REVIEW
70
Jul 23, 2013
Some of the sketches... have a surprising depth and richness. [5 Oct 1992]
By Marvin Kitman FULL REVIEW
63
Jul 23, 2013
An intriguing, brainy but strangely unappealing catalog of short film pieces, the sort of nervy, smug spoofs that NBC's Saturday Night Live specializes in. [25 Sep 1992]
By Matt Roush FULL REVIEW
60
Jul 23, 2013
High quality but uneven. [25 Sep 1992]
By John Engstrom FULL REVIEW
30
Jul 23, 2013
A feeble collection of filmed sketches starring a comic clearly not ready for prime time. [26 Sep 1992]
By Tom Shales FULL REVIEW

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