I remember the “life isn’t fair” answer and that ALWAYS made me so angry. Life isn’t fair, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try to make it as fair as possible. Don’t use that line on your kids.

He’s hilarious talking about his kids. I loved him talking about Quin loving cigars, fast cars and women. Quin sure has a taste for the fast life…;)

But, I would’ve done the same thing and taped anyway. Even if I had to do it from my seat. I’d just make sure I had a good enough seat to get a great recording.

I too think it’s a bit silly to not be able to take pictures or video of your kid. I mean these are 5 year olds doing a ballet recital for fun, this isnt the Russian ballet co that people pay huge amounts of money to see. It’s all for fun and a family should have fun with it, what a cute holiday card that would be with Ella in her tutu!

I believe the rationale for not being allowed to film your child at these kinds of events is that if every parent moves into aisle and starts filming, it distracts the other parents and perhaps interferes with their viewing of the performance. In lieu of each parent bringing their own video camera, schools sometimes hire one person to shoot the whole performance and then the parents have the option of buying the official video later.

Oh Ben must be a very funny dad. When Ben says cigars he doesn’t mean he smokes them or plays with them in a way he can burn himself.
Not being able to film your own child is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard of! Ben did alright filming her daughter LOOL. And yeah, I can imagine him battling security guards too!

On Ellen he said “Life isnt fair and then you die” HE WAS JOKING but that was alot funnier than this. LOL

I love the Stiller family! Ben is my favorite actor, along with Sandler and Robin Williams

Sarah’s note: I missed Ellen, unfortunately! Please let me know if you know where we can find it online.

I also use the “Life is not fair” routine with my nephew. I think the sooner kids realize that things aren’t always going to go their way, the better it will be for everybody.

And Ben Stiller sounds like a pretty great dad, even if he is a pushover.

ben is funny. i can picture him battling security guards like the type of mishaps he gets into in his movies LOL. quinlin likes cigars???? hope he doesn’t burn himself!

he is so funny! the Cinderella with queen age made me laugh!

I saw this last night and Ben was so funny. You can tell he adores his kids.