Christine Taylor reveals why husband Ben Stiller skipped the Knicks for the Met Gala

Christine Taylor said her husband, Ben Stiller, was being a considerate and polite pal erstwhile he ditched nan Knicks playoff crippled connected Monday nighttime for nan Met Gala.

“We were invited by a friend, truthful this was an responsibility we had committed to successful January,” nan “Brady Bunch Movie” star, 54, told Page Six astatine nan Cinema Society screening of “Influenced” earlier this week. “And, you ne'er cognize what nighttime [a playoff game] is going to autumn on, and he was holding existent to showing up for friends.”

“It really was for these beloved friends who invited us.”

However, that’s not to opportunity nan Knicks weren’t connected nan couple’s minds astatine nan swanky shindig.

“Here’s what was great,” Taylor explained. “He could deterioration his Knicks orange, I happened to beryllium wearing bluish and [The Knicks trounced nan 76ers, 137-98], truthful erstwhile we learned what nan people was, we could relax and bask nan night.”

Stiller besides addressed nan “Sophie’s Choice” determination connected nan reddish carpet.

“Right now, I wish I was successful Madison Square Garden,” Stiller admitted to USA Today. “But it’s beautiful to beryllium here, too.”

“If you can’t beryllium astatine Madison Square Garden watching nan Knicks … this is simply a awesome 2nd choice,” Stiller added. “This is an unthinkable arena supporting nan Costume Institute and nan arts successful New York. And we’ve been present a mates of times.”

The “Meet nan Fockers” prima was besides spotted mouthing “Knicks successful six” arsenic he made his measurement down nan carpet.

Stiller has been a regular beingness astatine Knicks games, often sitting beside different ardent fan, Timothée Chalamet, who attended Monday’s game, while his girlfriend, Kylie Jenner, was astatine nan Met Gala.

Although Stiller didn’t get to cheer connected his beloved team, it sounds for illustration he had a beautiful swell clip astatine nan Met.

“One of nan highlights was during nan cocktail hour, we had a ten-minute chat pinch Stevie Nicks, who was successful her apical hat,” Taylor gushed, adding that Nicks had conscionable watched “There’s Something About Mary,” starring Stiller.

“So she really wanted to talk to him astir that,” she laughingly noted, “how hilarious she thought it was, truthful he was really honored.”

Meanwhile, Taylor tin beryllium seen successful “Influenced,” playing a spoiled Upper East Side lady.

“I travel from Allentown, Pennsylvania,” she shared, “so it’s arsenic acold arsenic from what I person ever known arsenic existent life,” but enthusiastically said yes to nan portion because she’s a immense instrumentality of co-writer and prima Jill Kargman.

She also precocious had lunch pinch her on-screen doppleganger, Maureen McCormick, 69, who played nan original Marcia Brady successful nan sitcom, while Taylor took connected nan domiciled successful nan movie franchise.

When Page Six gushed complete her performance, Taylor was thrilled.

“As a life-long Brady fan, it was truthful important to maine to study and really seizure everything Maureen McCormick did truthful brilliantly connected nan show, iconicly,” she revealed, adding that, “I virtually conscionable texted her connected nan measurement here.”

“We’re buddies now. To me, it’s nan top thing, 30 years later and a life of loving her, I tin telephone her a friend.”