Heir of ZAZ: Jim Abrahams and Zucker brothers’s cinema in Ben Stiller’s comedies

Abstract

Two types of comedy movies offers, on one hand, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker and David Zucker and, on the other, Ben Stiller’s films. His works are 20 years apart and conceived under completely different perspectives of the world. In both cases they parody identifiable situations in reality but each one does so using humor within their own language and style. The former have established a cult because comedy is linked to absurd, but Ben Stiller uses satire to build the world in which his stories come alive.