Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: Stiller and Meara Plan Their Interfaith Wedding

When Jerry Stiller died a few weeks ago, we posted the famous skit that he and his wife Anne Meara performed on the Ed Sullivan Show. As Hershie Horowitz and Mary Elizabeth Doyle, they had been matched by a computer program in 1966.

In a later appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, they were back in character a few months after their first meeting. Hershie proposed to Mary Elizabeth and they started planning their wedding. But their religious and ethnic differences presented one problem after another and they realized that this match was not meant to be.

In real life, however, they married in 1954 and Meara converted to Judaism before the birth of their children.

Enjoy!

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