Complex sentence: Stiller and Meara (Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara), a husband and wife comedy team, were a big hit in the 1960s and 1970s, making frequent appearances on television variety shows such as "The Ed Sullivan Show".
Split into simpler sentences: Stiller and Meara (Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara) were a husband and wife comedy duo popular in the 1960s and 1970s. They made frequent appearances on television variety shows such as "The Ed Sullivan Show".