Ben Stiller as “Tom Crooze”: An MTV Movie Awards Classic Nearly 25 years later, one of the funniest MTV Movie Awards moments is still Ben Stiller’s 2000 sketch “Mission: Improbable,” where he played Tom Cruise’s overeager “stunt double,” Tom Crooze. Decked out in Cruise’s shades and leather jacket, Stiller nailed the parody—while the real Tom Cruise played the perfect straight man. It remains one of MTV’s greatest award-show spoofs ever. | Did You Catch This?

In a moment that still ranks among MTV Movie Awards’ most memorable comedy sketches, Ben Stiller once took the stage pretending to be Tom Cruise’s stunt double—and the result was pure comedic brilliance. During the 2000 MTV Movie Awards, audiences were treated to a spoof video titled "Mission: Improbable," featuring Stiller as "Tom Crooze," an overly enthusiastic yet hopelessly misguided stunt double for Cruise in Mission: Impossible II. Sporting Cruise’s signature shades, leather jacket, and sl