Amy Stiller

Stiller and Meara were among the earliest graduates of the Second City improvisational comedy troupe to become famous. 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. They also created comical radio advertisements. Their advertisements for Blue Nun were so effective that they boosted sales of the wine by 500%. During the mid-1970s Stiller and Meara made a couple of appearances together on the sitcom Rhoda. (Meara was a semi-regular during that show's third season, and Stiller appeared twice, playing her character's ex-husband.)
Anne Meara played Veronica Rooney, a cook on Archie Bunker's Place from 1979 to 1982. She often made wisecracks and gave Archie a hard time. She insisted that Archie also hire her openly gay nephew Fr…