This is the first shot from Ben Stiller’s Tropic Thunder and if you think the black guy looks familiar, that’s probably because you’ve seen him before. It’s Robert Downey Jr. But Don’t worry NAACP. He’s not a white guy playing a black guy. He’s a white guy playing an actor playing a black guy.

Stiller says that he and Downey always stayed focused on the fact that they were skewering insufferable actors, not African-Americans. ”I was trying to push it as far as you can within reality,” Stiller explains. ”I had no idea how people would respond to it.” He recently screened a rough cut of the film and it scored high with African-Americans. He was relieved at the reaction. ”It seems people really embrace it,” he says.

Okay. I think I know why I ended up with three broken ribs and a shattered cheekbone on Halloween. I explained my costume all wrong. I wasn’t dressed as a black guy. I was dressed as an actor dressed as a black guy. You know. Satire.

Ben Stiller’s tells InStyle magazine that his wife, Christine Taylor, likes to hide and scare him. Possibly killing him with a heart attack and then stealing his wallet. I made that last part up. Maybe. Stiller recounts,

“She likes to hide around our house, like in our closet, and jump out at me. I’m easily alarmed. I think I’m literally going to have a heart attack”

Christine Taylor can hide in my closet and jump out at me any time. Can she fit? I have a lot of junk in there. I don’t want her to suffocate. That would be bad. The guy at the dump told me I couldn’t throw away anymore rugs and those things are impossible to push down a garbage chute.

Scarlett Johansson and Ben Stiller will be this year’s recipients of the Hasty Pudding awards. The awards are only given to those who have made a “lasting and impressive contribution to the world of entertainment.” (Scarlett’s breasts and Stiller’s…perseverance.) Johansson’s award will be given February 15 where she will lead a parade through Cambridge before receiving the “Pudding Pot” at her roast. She will be ogled by many and probably be hand fed grapes while lying down on a golden bed.

Stiller will receive his award eight days later on February 23. He will neither lead a parade nor have a roast. He will enter from the back, quietly find his much less impressive “Pudding Snack” award sitting on a table and proceed to scour the cafeteria for a spoon. Sadly, campus security will throw him out because of their no vagrant policy.