<P> After some years honing the act, Stiller and Meara became regulars on The Ed Sullivan Show, with 36 appearances, and other TV programs, including The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson . They released their first LP in 1963, "Presenting America's New Comedy Sensation: Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara Live at The Hungry I," which became a hit . By 1970, however, they broke up their act because it was affecting their marriage: "I didn't know where the act ended and our marriage began," complained Meara in 1977 . Stiller agreed, fearing "I would have lost her as a wife ." </P> <P> During the 1970s, Meara and Stiller wrote and performed many radio commercials together for Blue Nun Wine . She had a recurring role on the sitcom Rhoda as airline stewardess Sally Gallagher, one of the title character's best friends . She also had a small role as "Mrs Curry" opposite Laurence Olivier in The Boys from Brazil (1978). In 1975 she starred in her own series Kate McShane on CBS, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award, but the series was cancelled after only 10 episodes . </P> <P> Meara costarred with Carroll O'Connor and Martin Balsam in the early 1980s hit sitcom Archie Bunker's Place, which was a continuation of the influential 1970s sitcom All in the Family . She played the role of Veronica Rooney, the bar's cook, for the show's first three seasons (1979--1982). During that time, she acted in the movie Fame (1980), in which she played English teacher Elizabeth Sherwood . She also appeared as the grandmother in the TV series ALF in the late 1980s . Her own 1986 TV sitcom, The Stiller and Meara Show, in which Stiller played the deputy mayor of New York City and Meara portrayed his wife, a television commercial actress, was unsuccessful . From 1999 to 2007, Meara guest starred on The King of Queens (where her husband played Arthur Spooner), first as Mary Finnegan, then as Veronica Olchin (mother of Spence, who was played by Patton Oswalt). Veronica and Arthur were married in the series finale, but divorced a year later . </P> <P> Starting in October 2010, Meara and her husband Jerry Stiller began starring in a Yahoo! web series called Stiller & Meara produced by Red Hour Digital, a production company owned by their son Ben Stiller . </P>

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