Jerry Stiller, his son said, was “genuinely funny” — though throughout his life he labored over every line. Even when the elder Stiller became a viewer favorite, in his late 60s, as George Costanza’s pugnacious father on “Seinfeld,” his scripts “had meticulous annotations in the margins,” said Journey Gunderson, executive director of the National Comedy Center, where Stiller donated his par
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