{"id":239761,"date":"2025-10-21T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/239761\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T00:00:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T00:00:13","slug":"taking-chances-with-comedy-is-challenging-under-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/239761\/","title":{"rendered":"“Taking Chances With Comedy Is Challenging” Under Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBen Stiller<\/a> has bemoaned the chilling effect on comedy during Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s second term.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn an interview with the Radio Times magazine, the Zoolander star and Severance director said it was a challenging time for the genre he loves \u2014 and he urged comedians to stand up and be counted.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe live in a world where taking chances with comedy is more challenging. You\u2019re seeing that front and center in our country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBut I think it\u2019s important that comedians keep doing what they\u2019re doing, speaking truth to power and being free to say what they want. That\u2019s the most important thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tStiller\u2019s remarks follow Disney\u2019s brief suspension of Jimmy Kimmel <\/a>over comments the late-night show host made about the death of Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n

\n\tStiller was one of the many high-profile Hollywood figures to speak out against Kimmel\u2019s hiatus from ABC, posting on X\/Twitter: \u201cThis isn\u2019t right.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tStiller himself has resisted pressure to scrub Zoolander of a Trump cameo. During a red carpet scene in the 2001 film, Trump can be heard saying: \u201cWithout Derek Zoolander, male modeling wouldn\u2019t be what it is today.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve had people reach out to me and say, \u2018You should edit Donald Trump out of Zoolander,\u2019 but at the end of the day, that was a time that existed and that happened,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tStiller spoke to the Radio Times to promote his Apple TV documentary Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost, which reflects on the lives of his parents, comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Stiller has bemoaned the chilling effect on comedy during Donald Trump\u2018s second term. In an interview with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[15819,12,5109,88,206,26592],"class_list":["post-239761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ben-stiller","tag-donald-trump","tag-electionline","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-stiller-meara-nothing-is-lost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}