Ben Stiller Honored, Hints "Fockers 3"

The big news this week from the world of Ben Stiller: it looks like a third "Meet the Parents" movie, a sequel to "Meet the Fockers" is percolating. In the natural progression of things, Robert DeNiro and Blythe Danner would return as grandparents to Ben Stiller and Teri Polo's babies. Of course, Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand would have to return as well.

In the meantime:

Last night's big black tie dinner honoring Ben Stiller for the Museum of the moving Image was a lot rowdier than last year's weirdo event saluting Tom Cruise.

For one thing, everyone who spoke had a real anecdote about Ben, cracked wise, and appeared to actually know the person getting toasted. It was more like a Friars Roast than a Friars Roast.

Among the speakers -- Ben's famous comedian parents Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, plus co-stars like Robert DeNiro, Jack Black, Robert Smigel with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, Mike Myers, and Amy Adams, as well as Bill Hader from "Saturday Night Live" and Sean "Diddy" Combs. There was also a funny video bit from Adam Sandler and director Judd Apatow ending with Sandler observing, "No one exists but me!"

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Comments

[piul05]

I like Stiller but I would have thought that two "Fockers" were more than enough.

[Agentlady007]

Whatever he does, it is going to be successful because his parents were both two of the most talented comics the world has ever known. I was so happy to see his mother act normal as his Unemployment officer in his movie "The Night at the Museum."-- Oh is she something. Never quits.

[DoodleWhore]

Blech. Two Fockers was more than enough.

[FCBarca]

Gee, what a shock...This is typical Hollywood M.O., milk it even when it's long gone dry...No original ideas, recycled themes and borrowed ones (Remakes of foreign films)

[Topgun2]

That wasn't a "hint", it was a threat.

[JDJase]

Eh, sounds cliche...when all I read was the headline I pretty much figured it would be a movie about bringing "little fockers" into the world

[Big0725]

Man I'd like to make the beast with two backs with his ole lady!

[longislandlol]

What a great movie that would make-- I;d love to see Larry David as an Uncle (Streisands' brother)- there would be great hilarity with Uncle Larry meeting the Fockers--

[Theda]

Are you being sarcastic, Longislandlol?!

[thelighterside]

On a totally irrelevant and lighter note, I thought you guys might like to watch Benji and Lacey of SYTYCD dance from Dancing With The Stars. If not, please ignore this post. If so, you can find it here.

http://myRealitytelevision.com/2008/11/11-dancing-with-stars-surprise-elimination-benjie-lacey-of-sytycd/

[TLP]

To dagdavid. Amen to that. Now Jerry Stiller is funny.

[ConcernedAboutRFuture]

Oh jeebus!! Please NO! Your movies are just too stupid to even watch Ben.

[WorkinJoe]

Talk about the dumbing down of America. Three movies based on one lame junior high gag? I saw the one with Dustin Hoffman. Not a single laugh, and I couldn't believe he would stoop to this laughless garbage. Must have some big debts...

[dagdavid]

Ben Stiller is the unfunniest actor and a schlock director. Simply cannot understand his success.

[Theda]

Ben started out as a good actor. His short-lived TV show was innovative and creative (he was in his 20's then).
How could he have gone from that to "Fockers 3?"
Even Hoffman and Streisand couldn't save the second "Fockers" film.