Stiller and Meara

When variety shows became scarce in the late 1970s, they had a syndicated short program, only five minutes long, which ran on the NBC affiliate in the Washington, D.C. market immediately after Saturday Night Live.

She insisted that Archie also hire her openly gay nephew Fred as a waiter to help him pay for law school.

She was an alcoholic and privately pined to reconcile with her ex-husband, Carmine (who appeared in a few episodes, played by Stiller), but knew it wasn't going to happen.

In 2014, Stiller and Meara provided the voices of a married RV couple in the animated film Planes: Fire and Rescue.

Prior to Meara's death, the duo starred in a web series from Red Hour Digital, in which they discussed current topics.