Night at the Roxbury was horrible, so don't base him on that. But didn't you like his cheerleading acts with Cheri Oteri? James Lipton? Bush? Homocil commercial? musical acts w/ Gasteyer at the school? Janet RENO? The list goes on and on...........
Actually, the cheerleading acts was another one of his skits that I absolutely hated. The Bush and Reno impersonations were pretty funny, but not nearly enough to balance out the other horrible crap.
How about the commercial where he lays a guilt trip on the dogs as a form of treatment to get them to behave better? os
Will Ferrell is a comedic genius. I will be sad to see him go. So many memories - cowbell, James Lipton, Robert Goulet doing gangsta rap, Neil Diamond, when he displayed his patriotic fervor at the office in American Flag short-shorts - so many laughs, so little time.
'Not many people know that I'm fueled creatively by my hatred of immigrants.' 'I wrote this song after I killed a drifter to get an erection...' I find the cheerleaders and the middle school music teachers skits (doing 'Rock the Casbah' and 'Baby Got Back'!) *really* funny too...
Another article... Apparently, Will Ferrell is just plain bushed. After seven years as a Saturday Night Live stalwart, the funnyguy famous for his dead-on impersonation of President George W. Bush's mangled vocabulary has announced he's quitting his gig as a Not Ready for Prime-Time Player. "Being on SNL has been a fulfillment of a dream. This show gave me opportunities that just wouldn't have been possible had I remained a bank teller in Irvine," says Ferrell. "The people I've come to know and work with have made my time here the best it could possibly be. I will truly miss them." The 35-year-old Ferrell plans on following the well-worn path of other SNL alumni and trying his luck on the big screen. Ferrell, a former member of L.A.'s famed comedy troupe the Groundlings, joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 1995 after being tapped by SNL founder and executive producer Lorne Michaels. He went on to create numerous characters for the show, including Craig, the Spartan Spirit cheerleader, and Marty Culp, the middle school music teacher who crooned horribly off-key covers of pop tunes. But it was his signature impressions of Jeopardy!'s Alex Trebek, film buff James Lipton (of Bravo's Inside the Actor's Studio), Neil Diamond and a less than sharp George "Dubya" Bush that made him an SNL star and earned him Emmys last year for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program and for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program. In his downtime from SNL, Ferrell has made a few forays on the big screen, most notably as the Moroccan hit man Mustafa in the Austin Powers franchise. He did a hilarious Bob Woodward in the Nixon spoof Dick and played the villainous fashion designer Mugatu in last year's Zoolander. Ferrell also starred in the sketch-to-screen clunker A Night at the Roxbury and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. In an interview Tuesday with the Los Angeles Times, Ferrell says he still needs to convince studio execs that he's more than a one-dimensional second banana. "I'm in that category of, 'Oh, he's funny,' " Ferrell says, not in the leading-man leagues. He currently has three projects in the pipeline that he hopes will make him a star in the vein of such SNL vets as Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler and Mike Myers. (Classic episodes of Saturday Night Live can be seen Monday through Friday on E! at 7 p.m. ET/PT.) First up is Old School, an Animal House-style comedy costarring Ferrell, Luke Wilson and Vince Vaughn as three thirtysomething friends who, disillusioned with life, decide to relive the glory of their college days by founding their own fraternity next to a university. The Todd Phillips (Road Trip) flick is due out September 27. Ferrell will then segue into Elf, a holiday comedy in which he stars as a human raised in Santa's workshop at the North Pole who finds out he isn't actually an elf. That starts shooting in the fall. Finally, he will join forces with SNL scribe Adam McKay to write Ron Burgundy, in which Ferrell will star as a veteran local TV anchor forced to team up with a female coanchor. Before he begins his star turns, Ferrell will next be seen on the big screen reprising his role as Mustafa in Austin Powers in Goldmember, which opens July 26. Ferrell bows out of SNL on the May 18 season finale.
I hope we get a final celebrity Jeopardy before he leaves. As Sean Connery would say, "HIS DAY HAS COME!" "And we have reached a new low. Regis, you can have them. I'm outta here."
...and then your friend has to go and take the last Miller Lite. That low down, no beer running, UGLY, SELFISH LITTLE FATSLAPPER!! CRIMINEY!! Yep..."Fatslapper" is definitely one of my new favorite words...
Well, no big loss in my book, anyway. I did like those Jeapordy sketches though. Sean Connery: I'll take "the penis mightier," Trebek. Trebek: That's "the pen is mightier," Mr. Connery. Sean Connery: Fine, have it your way... but you're sitting on a goldmine, Trebek!
Another great Jeopardy moment. The answer : The sound a dog makes. No one answers. Trabek: We would have accepted bow-wow or ruff-ruff. Connery: Ruff-ruff. Just like your mother likes it, Alex. -or- Connery: I'll take Swords for $100, Alex. Trabek: Sean, the category is S-words.
Wow - that sucks. He is probably my favorite cast member on SNL. One of my favorite commercials was the Magic-Mouth. You shoved this thing in your butt and when you farted it said something intellectual. Very Funny! Anyone else remember the SNL skit from a few years back with Toby Maguire as the host? Toby was a Yoga instructor and Will finally became flexible enough to pleasure himself. He had his head stuck in his pants just going at it! Will Rules! I liked Night at the Roxbury. Screw you guys.
Watch some SNL here. They have Magic Mouth, Actors Studio (Lipton), and a few more Will Ferrell skits. http://www.comedycentral.com/timewasters/dl_general.jhtml?show=snl
Other misunderstandings between the two: Sean Connery-I'll take The rapists for $...(not sure of the number) Trebek-That's Therapists, Mr. Connery Sean Connery-I'll take Famous t*tties for $... Trebek-That's Famous Titles, Mr. Connery Sean Connery-Not a fan of the ladies are you Trebek?
