ben stiller is suspicious

It should have seemed suspicious when Ben Stiller did something funny at the Academy Awards Sunday night, because I don’t have a time machine, and going back to 2001 would be the only way to see something like that live.  Page Six says…

Ben Stiller … had "a meltdown" at (Oscar) rehearsal on Saturday "because he was unhappy with the script and decided he could do better," said an insider. "Ben refused to tell them what he planned until he arrived at the Kodak Theatre, and then he did that Joaquin Phoenix bit." But points were deducted because director Frank Coraci had donned identical sunglasses and beard Saturday at the Independent Spirit Awards.

It’s essentially impossible that Stiller didn’t hear what Coraci did 24 hours earlier at a major awards show 15 minutes away.  Stiller might as well have shown up with a penguin and said those were his idea too.