Will Ferrell
Appearances
Fresh Air
Questlove Digs Into 50 years Of 'SNL' Musical Hits (And Misses)
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Fresh Air
Questlove Digs Into 50 years Of 'SNL' Musical Hits (And Misses)
Are you sure that was sounding okay? I'll be honest, fellas, it was sounding great, but I could have used a little more cowbell.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
Let's see. I was in, I graduated in 90. So that was kind of the beginning of ESPN and boom.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
I want to be one of those guys, you know? And so I graduated and then was trying to get a job with local cable stations. And, you know, you have to like build a tape and send it out to these small markets to get hired as the, you know, the sportscaster in Arizona. Yeah.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
They have to be gold, dude.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
But at the same time, I thought, you know what? This itch is not going away. I better scratch it about the comedy thing. So at the same time, I started doing classes at this improv theater in Los Angeles called The Groundlings where – I had seen tons of people had gone on to sitcoms, to Saturday Night Live, to film and television, performers, writers, directors, everything. I thought,
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
oh, this is – they had a school I could kind of take all these classes at. And so I kind of was doing both at the same time. And I kind of found my – you know, you got to – as you guys probably know, you got to find your community. You got to find your support group. And that place in L.A., the Groundlings Theater, was where I felt safe enough to kind of go for it. And I was there for three years.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
And then that spring of –
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
spring of 95 was when snl was doing like a nationwide search for a brand new cast because they knew they were going to let go uh it was gonna be the last year for like farley and sandler and dana carvey and and that whole group man so yeah happened to be at the right place at the right time when they came and watched one of our shows and went through the audition process and then
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
But you're in front of a full audience that's supportive and there and they want to see you have fun. I'm on the ground in that studio playing around like a cat. No one. No one's in – Warren Michaels purposely had no one in the studio to like create the tension of late night – like he wanted to create the pressure of what it's like to be on Saturday Night Live TV.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
So I'm in a void rolling around going – oh my god i'm going back to la this is not like because because there's no one loud there's no one in the there's no one in the studio there's just a camera operator and a sound guy oh my gosh so good this is so this is my one of my favorites So it was almost like a prisoner torture technique. I just had to fight through it.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
They basically had to do an audition that was anywhere from five to eight minutes long of any of the characters of your choice. Oh, nice. Okay. So that was one of the – I did another – I did Harry Carey doing a play reading. Okay.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
so i did my harry carey impersonation and i did i did this sketch that i think really got me the job which was uh this dad at a barbecue yelling at his kids to get off the shed um and that piece i auditioned with later became the sketch that was in i did in my very first show oh that's cool as a cast member so that's cool so they brought that one to life nice yeah
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
But it was awful. I was like, I had no idea if I did well or not. And you just left going, oh, well, I guess they'll call me.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
Yeah, he can, it's funny. He's like, he can walk right by you or he can... Or you can pump you up. But yeah, sometimes you don't know where you stand with that guy. Oh, man.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
I never imagined that I would get to play the president. Uh, because I wasn't, I wasn't known for doing political impressions or anything like that. So to get to do Bush for that law, like that was, and, and like, you know, you're going to be a go-to guy every week. Uh, that was pretty heady. That was pretty, that was really fun.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
Uh, I loved, you know, I think about like doing the cheerleaders with Sherry O'Terry, uh, sketches I got to do with with Molly Shannon on a gas tire. We used to do this Bobby and Marty's sketch where we were like middle school music teachers who would perform and the kids would hate them. And the Robert Goulet sketches were really fun.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
man neil diamond uh neil diamond and harry carey i got to do i got to do harry carey to an audience that maybe didn't know it was fun because people who knew harry carey from the cubs as an announcer obviously knew who he was but then other people would go i love that mad scientist character you do with the crazy white hair and i was like well no he's a real person they're like oh okay well whatever it doesn't matter i think it's so funny i had a great seven years on the show and i just uh
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
I don't know anything about red flag or green flag. Get yourself into position to look for the checkered flag.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
there, you know, I, I'm, I'm so lucky to look back and, and there was probably, I, I, you know, I, I had fun like every single week doing that show, man.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
Yeah, I think, uh, Honestly, I preferred being a cast member because when you host, you all of a sudden – it was much easier to be a cast member and have your sketch get cut and be – kind of shake your fist, you know, like, ah! Yeah. But when you're on the other side and you're having a hand in like, oh, I don't want to choose between – That's tough. Right? I mean you've been in that room.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
And you probably had some choices where you had two or three funny things that could only go in the one slot because there is a lot of thinking that goes into that show. Yeah. And it's hard. Like you probably, everybody was awesome on the cast.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
And I'm just, and that you're thinking, Oh, but I really love doing the one thing. And so I was like, Oh, I hated, I hated like determining the fates of who was going to be in the show and who was not. Also too, you realize like the times I've come back to host, That thing is like a track meet.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
Physical shape you're in, comedy shape you're in. And I all of a sudden felt like I was in an NBA basketball game and the ball just kept hitting me in the face. Like the last time I came to host. And I remember, in fact, I remember sitting with Lauren at the after party and
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
And I was like, God, man, Lauren, I can't believe I used to do the show, like not even think twice about doing the show every week. And he was like, I thought he was going to give me the, you know, attaboy, like, like, you know, you were, no, you were great. You were wonderful. He was like, no, it's a young man's game.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
It's a real piece of living history in terms of television and in terms of American comedy. Because when you're sitting at home and you just DVR it or turn it on at 1130, you have no idea during those commercial breaks that there's 100 people running around moving those sets. Right. Absolutely. It is such a...
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
I mean, I hope they never cancel that show because I don't think they'll ever do that type of show ever again. No, it's just it's an art form the way they they they put on that show. And they have. And it's surprisingly it is surprisingly funny that.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
with how many things that can go wrong and and the fact that they only they write it in a week yeah it's crazy it it it's it's hit or miss for sure but it but it lands on its feet more often than than not and uh it's it's pretty impressive the whole
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
I remember when I was – my first year on the show, Kevin Nealon, who I was a big fan of, Kevin Nealon came back to kind of see a show and say hi to us. he, it was towards the end of that, my first year on the show. And he was like, you're really funny. You're like, great job. And I was like, I was like, thanks man. And he was like, let me give you some advice.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
Like you don't have to score every week. Just keep that in mind. It's like, if you could look back on a season and count on you, like if you've done 10 funny things, um, then you've had a good year. Wow. So it took the pressure off of having to have a great show every week. It's like hitting 300 in baseball. If you hit 300, you're going to be in the Hall of Fame.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
And if you could hit, well, 30% might be a little low. But if you could be funny 50% of the time, you would have a great year. That's a good batting average. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I took that to heart, but yeah.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
Yeah.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
No, you're screwed, man. Sounds like you gotta figure it out. Yeah. Yeah. No, you know, I... The thing that I always lived by is because, you know, I, I was like, look, I'm going to meet, I'm going to, I'm going to watch people perform who I think I'm funnier than. I'm also going to watch people who are way funnier than me.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
And I'm going to have to be okay with that. But, but the one thing no one will ever beat me and beat me at is how hard I commit to something. Sure. You've got to commit sketch wise to whatever the premise is. Yeah. And, and just go for it. And if you lock in that way, all the apprehension will just melt away. And, and then the audience will be on your side too, because they'll just be like,
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
And hopefully it's a funny premise to begin with. But even if it's not, they'll just be like, God, Jason is going for it. I'm on his side. And that's all you need to worry about. That's brilliant. And to not, because I've seen people, you can't have one foot in and one foot out. Because then the audience doesn't believe your intention. Absolutely. And so that's just the main thing.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
Yeah. We had a similar, we had, I remember Jackie Chan posted with us. What? He didn't read English. So we couldn't use the cue card. So we had to do the whole thing memorized. And he was on fire. But I think there are varying degrees. I remember one of our best hosts was Derek Jeter. He just committed to everything, regardless of how stupid we put him. And...
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
Also, that's how I got to know – that's how I met Shaq for the first time. He came on and did – I think it was Kelsey Grammer was the host. But they said, hey, Shaq's in town. He wants to do some sketches. He destroyed – he was so funny and natural to the point where one of his sketches got cut because he had a funnier show than the host.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
He had to reel it back because we wrote this sketch where all the cast members were picking on me. and making me cry, and Shaq came up. He's like, what's going on? And I'm like, Shaq, everyone's making fun of me. And he's like, come with me, Will. And we walked to home base there, and he picked me up in his arms, and we proceeded to sing a duet called No One's Gonna Hurt My Little Man.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
Jack cradling me. Oh, we did this whole, but that got cut and it like destroyed. Oh my gosh. I swear there was like, it was a lot of times it was, uh, actors that you would like Steve Buscemi. Oh, you're nice. Insanely good. I remember a lot of times dramatic actors who, uh,
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
were so excited to you didn't always see him in the comedy world exactly and and they that thing of like they would just commit to the premise they weren't even trying to be funny and it they subsequently got twice as many laughs
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
By the way, speaking of football, I got to bring something up. All right. I happen to be watching – during the holiday break, Travis, you guys, the Pittsburgh game. Yeah, yeah. And when you scored, did you just have one touchdown? Yeah, I just had one. You just had the one. And you went to go dunk the football. You missed the dunk. I did not dunk it. I did not dunk it. You missed it.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
You hit the rim. And I remember thinking, oh, I want to bring that out. I know I'm going to be talking to you guys. I'm like, God, Travis. He doesn't have the same hops. He missed the dunk. I don't. I don't have the ups anymore. I used to. The football just kind of hit the bar and just spilled over. But you still tried to celebrate. Like, I just dunked it. I was like, no, no, no.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
Yeah, maybe finger roll next time. I should have.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
I have been thinking about that since that moment.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
nice well i've been i've been thinking people might have forgot about it so perfect before we move on i gotta ask this have you ever dunked will can you dunk i dunked uh i remember having like a breakaway and i was like i'm gonna dunk this and the ball slipped out of my hand i got right here i got like rim yeah and then the ball just fired off the backboard And coach was like, what was that?
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
I was like, you told me. Try to dunk it. He's like, okay. I could dunk a tennis ball, but no. Not a basketball?
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
No, no. That was soothing. I'm going to play that on a loop to fall asleep to. It's going to be like a sleep machine for me. Yeah.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
I think the quarterback, not that he would necessarily be good, but he'd be very commanding, would be Ron Burgundy. Yes!
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
He's commanding. He'd get the plays wrong. He'd call the wrong... cadences yeah he'd he'd mess up constantly but he blamed someone else yeah and uh it's a big fun ride we got double right dorothy man tooth on two dorothy exactly baxter left uh
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
Running back, I'm going to say Frank the Tank from old school. The Tank, dude. He's breaking some tackles. You know it. Because... He's got that name, the tank. He's going to break some – he's also going to be inebriated enough to where he won't feel any pain.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
Yeah, he's definitely – he's definitely – He's drinking all night if you give him some beers. Well, yeah, he may try to take a couple plays fully naked. Yeah, yeah.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
Right.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
Wide receiver. Maybe because he's kind of, I think he's, I would say, very flexible and lithe. The word lithe. I'd say Buddy the Elf. Buddy the Elf. Nice.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
Very graceful.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
That's a better call.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
Coach would, you know, because I think he probably did. I'd say Jackie Moon from SemiPro. Oh, yeah. He was a coach. Because he was a player coach.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
He had to run it all. And he knows how to manage people. Yeah.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
owner where are we thinking round five owner who's the owner of this football team i don't know if he's the right owner but i i just haven't i i forgot to throw him in but let's just say ricky bobby's the owner dude uh it's an electric you already know he's running the show dude that'd be the best uh the best hail mary our baby who aren't in heaven yes he would he would lead the team in the baby jesus prayer before every game whether they wanted to or not
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
sweet baby jesus yeah yeah no ricky bobby he'd be he'd be a good owner he's got like kind of a little jerry jones in him probably yeah for sure my pals they're definitely friends yeah how about have you seen the clip of jerry jones uh with the chops
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
I actually watch some soccer on Paramount+.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
I don't really, but I'm part of a small part of the ownership group of Leeds United, which is the second division. Nice. Very cool. And so I've been out to one of their matches, which was awesome. And so I'll keep tabs on them.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
Yeah. No, we have, because we're part of the LAFC soccer team out here in LA, which is MLS. We're part of that ownership group, too. So we go to those games.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
I have tickets to the Lakers every now and then, the Kings, USC football. And somehow, in the year that they won the World Series, I went to zero Dodger games. No way. No way. I should have gone. No, I went to one. I went to one. No way. I know. We go to a lot of sports. But, I mean, I... Sports is a huge part of my life. It was kind of the way, and I know you guys can relate to this.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
Buddy the Elf got laid off, I think.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
It was the way I was able to make friends. It was the way it just, I loved playing team sports.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
They're an incredible group. UCB is one of the best.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
Let's see. Ricky Bobby would say, look, I don't know anything about red flag or green flag. You just got to get yourself into position to look for the checkered flag. Ha ha ha! Because, I mean, there's only one thing you need to worry about. I mean, if you ain't first, you're last. Yeah, baby.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
He's having a pull from his beer, smoking a cig. Just having some hymn time. That was just... I get these weird ideas every now and then. They're golden, man. I told my wife, because we're season ticket holders to the LA Kings. We have the seats right on the glass, which are amazing. I said, gosh, over the break, you know what?
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
Wait, I want to make sure I understand. Do you take the best friend of the girl?
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
Well, Ron Burgundy would say, of course you take the best friend. Because you teach that young lady a lesson. You're not going to be some horse's ass. You've spent $1,200 going to, I don't know, whatever concert, whatever music you listen to nowadays. I don't know if it's Kajagoogoo or Duran Duran or whatever it is. But you send a signal to that young lady that you're not messing around.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
And then you take photos of you and the best friend making out and send it back to the old girlfriend and say, that's how I do it.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
It'd be funny if I just got like a Buddy the Elf costume and didn't shave for like a week. And I'm just sitting there with like a candy cigarette. It's just a candy cigarette. And I'm just going to like... sit there for a period and see what, how people react. And that was it. So reaction was insane. We're like, what is he doing?
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
Okay. Ready? Lightning round.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
Definitely a bank teller. I was a bank teller.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
Customers would actually complain as to how bad I was. So I'd break out in flop sweat. Your mom can relate to it. When you're starting out, you're handling people's money. It was awful.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
I was short like my first two days out. I wasn't even pocketing the money. That's crazy.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
What's wrong with this guy? In fact, I remember I was putting up flyers in the break room to try to get people to come to my stand-up comedy show. Oh. And I was so quiet as a bank teller because I was so nervous all the time. And I had this manager go, I saw your flyer. You do stand-up comedy? And I go, yeah. She's like, I'd like to see that. And I just walked away.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
I think constantly, lovingly make fun of them.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
Yeah. It's the best.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
Is he promoting something is, but occasionally I just like to do weird things like that just to stir it up.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
I think they do. Actually, I have one coming out. Here we go. This month. Here we go. Invited on Amazon. Perfect. Which is a, which is like an old school. R-rated. Fantastic movie. Reese Witherspoon and I are, we have two competing weddings booked at a destination. Location. And we have to kind of Duke it out to see who's going to be the wedding that gets to take place. But yeah,
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Will Ferrell on Down Bad Buddy the Elf, Iconic SNL Audition & Ron Burgundy's Dating Advice | Ep 119
yeah i i it's an interesting time i think people are making it i just i don't know why they're not kind of going to the theaters to see them and i think we have i think we kind of have so many options now that a lot of people would you know would rather go oh i'll just i'll just catch that at home yeah there's nothing like going to the theater though man I know.
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When you sit and watch a comedy with an audience, you're reminded as to how much more fun it is.
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I'm trying to get that back.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
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Oh, God.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
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Yeah. You know what? I'm going to pass on that because I'm afraid you guys will steal it. No, no. We want to do something like that. No, I don't trust you guys. I don't trust you. No, I don't know. I'm trying to think if there's anything. It's funny. Ideas usually pop into my head in the most random way. But... But no, I don't have an exciting answer to that. Sorry.
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I knew, I know you've been following the Kings for a while now, but yeah, I kinda, I was, uh, I, I, I remember there was, I grew up in Southern California and there was, uh, There was a kid who moved into my neighborhood from Connecticut who played hockey, and we would play street hockey. This is sad. One-on-one street hockey? Does that even exist?
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Yeah.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
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I think you just get a sense of something that, you know, if it's an idea that you can kind of spit out in a sentence.
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Then it's got a good chance. You know, it's like, You know, I remember when we were, we were pitching Anchorman, which at the time we got rejected. I think we got like rejected 20 different times from various studios. It just blows my mind. Like no one could kind of wrap their hand around, head around an ensemble comedy show. That took place in a newsroom. They kept hearing the news part.
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And we're like, no, no, no. It's going to be, you know, Austin Powers wasn't about us. Wasn't about the spy game. It was about a really funny character. Right. Our characters are gonna be funny. And then I remember, I remember thinking, gosh, this is so hard to get off the ground. We should maybe pick a topic that everyone's talking about. And at that time, NASCAR was at its height.
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And I was like, for instance, what if I'm just me as a NASCAR driver and we sold that in like two seconds?
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Yeah. I don't know. I don't know if there's an exact formula for it, but it's just something that I think grabs the people who have to pay for it.
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I mean, one of my welcome to Hollywood moments was getting to be the first – the first member of a brand new cast on Saturday night live. And I got to say the first, the first lines of our, our opening show. And I'm sitting there and they're counting down the show and I'm looking out. That's crazy. My folks are in the audience and friends and family. And I'm like, I can't believe I'm here.
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And I'm about to, I'm about to say whatever line, which is, a little trivia here. I mess up my line. The first time I speak on camera on the show, I flub it.
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And I felt, and you know, Travis, you know how you do the full dress rehearsal. And then by the time you do the live show, you're like piece of cake.
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I got it. Yeah. But all, and so I did the dress rehearsal. I was like, this is going to be great, but I'm sitting there in the chair and the enormity of the moment hits me. And I start to get a little bit emotional thinking about, wow, this is the thing I've always dreamed about. And then it was like five seconds. And then I had to do my line. I was like, and I was like, and Lauren came back.
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He's like, are you okay? I'm like, I'm fine. I'm fine. I just, I don't know what happened. Yeah. It was incredibly uplifting and incredibly grounding all at the same time. It was like, don't ever take anything for granted, and yet I can't believe I'm here. There you go.
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You guys are going to say, You're My Boy Blue. Yeah!
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You're going to go old school. I love them. Or you might say milk is a bad choice. I don't know.
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Of course.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
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milk was a bad choice by the way i improvised that because i was literally trying to tell the director in that moment like why did you give me a carton of milk as we're shooting in la on like a 98 degree day and i literally was like milk was a bad choice because i'm like i'm having to drink hot milk in this scene that's the worst the fucking worst you were spot on with that one
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We'd have ice. So it was just with the little ball, and it's running around a parking lot. Oh, yeah. And then I, yeah, I was, I, I followed the Kings way back, way back when they had like the triple crown line of Marcel Dion, Dave Taylor, Charlie Simmer. Anyway.
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I wouldn't say, yeah. I mean, sometimes there are moments where, oh, I'm getting this weird kick here. Sorry.
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Wow. That's nice. I don't know how to fix this. I don't know how to fix this. Well, whatever. Here we go. We're rolling with it. I'm going to sit like this. We're rolling. Yeah, sometimes someone says something and you're just like... So good. You're like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you. Yeah, I did. Yeah, I said that. And most of the time, it's fantastic. But then...
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There's about 20% of the time where I don't pick up the cue. Oh, wow.
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Someone yelled at me, why are you so sweaty? And I go, oh, because I was just on a bike ride. He's like, no! No! From Step Brothers. After the drum set.
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You're supposed to say, because I was watching cops. Like, oh, right, sorry. And she got so pissed and walked away.
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You ruined it for me. I've ruined it. So I do ruin it for a lot of people. Because I don't. I don't pick up my cue.
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I'm going to put Steve Martin. Nice. I'm going to put I'm probably going to put Bill Murray up there.
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I'm going to put Eddie Murphy.
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And let's just say the original cast of Saturday Night Live.
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I love that list.
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Steven Seagal.
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I don't even know where he is on planet Earth these days. Yeah, wherever he's at. I mean, I'd love to do something weird with an actor like Daniel Day-Lewis.
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Yeah.
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Exactly. Try to get him to do like something weird. Yeah. That's fun.
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Yeah. I've, I've been the, and then they, then of course they won a couple of cups and that helped build the audience. And now, now they, now they draw really well. Oh, look at that.
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Oh, my gosh. I'm going to say two. I'm going to say the Women's World Cup final at the Rose Bowl. Ooh. For women's soccer. Nice. Where they beat China. They finally won the Women's World. It's the famous... Brandi Chastain taking the top off. Yeah. Fuck yeah. That was incredible.
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That was an amazing back and forth. It's a great game. You just made. Whoever had the ball last was going to win that game, and their time just ran out.
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he's gonna lay into me right now for sure it's the reason he went to texas i believe is because they won that game and i sat at in the same row with matthew mcconaughey oh yeah and his buddy and they wanted to talk shit the whole game like every time texas you know of course like Texas guys love to be like, okay, here we go. And then SC would score right away. And I'd be like, what?
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What happened? What happened? Yeah, what happened? What was that? And it was so back and forth. But I have to say, at the end of that game, everyone just shook hands.
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We just watched one of the, yeah. So anyway, but I've been lucky. I've been to a bunch of fun stuff, but those two pop into my head.
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And there is a classic photo... Of Vince Young scoring that last touchdown. Yeah. And one of the SC cheerleaders jumping up in the air thinking it was SC that had scored. No.
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No, she. She was not the sharpest tool in the shed.
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But did you guys play hockey as well with everything else you did?
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both those teams with guys who went on to the league, like on both sides of the ball. And yeah, it was, it was an insane environment. Yeah.
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You got the sun hunting you down over there. I know. I'm trying to help your producers out here by not getting blasted by the sun. I do have a question for you guys. How do you compare getting to do things like this? Obviously... You live you're living out. You got to be pro athletes. This thing you dreamed about your whole life.
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Now getting to this other side of stuff. Is it as much fun? Is it more fun? Is it a different kind of fun?
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back to the drawing board but that's i think there's a lot of parallels between team sport and getting to do a lot of things entertainment because the same thing can happen like i think that's why i love working on films it's a it's a team of people it's a crew of people i love saturday night live because of the ensemble because it was like we all like if if if
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You know, if we all pull for each other, the whole show does well and we all do well. And same sort of thing. You work hard. You're working on something. You film something for 50 days. It takes a year to come out. And you lay a big, fat turd. And you're like, oh, audience didn't think it was funny at all. Oh, well, we thought it was hilarious. Yeah, there you go.
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And then you're like, well, I'm still glad we went for it. You know, what are you going to do? Yeah.
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Full send.
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Yeah. It kind of, kind of an amazing sport. And I'm not going to lie to you. There's some beautiful men out there who play hockey.
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Yeah.
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But yeah, that was my, that was my, my latest kind of public stunt.
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Yeah, that was another one. I had friends who gave me a Staples security guard outfit, and I snuck it into the building and then just pretended to be one of the security guys.
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And I was afraid. I stuck it in because I was afraid they would stop me and go, where'd you get that uniform? That's contraband. Come with us. This is the vet list, dude.
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I just stood on the set. Yeah. It turns out the other security guys, they were like, dude, I love it. Just don't stand on the court. You're good with us. You're good with us. And then I look down and Shaq happens to be at the game. I just pick a random game. And I look down and there's Shaq in the corner. He's rolling. He's laughing.
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So I stand up a couple of times in between the breaks and then I'm like, what do I what else do I do with this? I don't know. And then someone taps me on the shoulder and says, you know, during the next break, Shaq's ready to leave the game. Do you want to throw him out of the game? So he gave me the idea. He goes, yeah, just come over. And then I escorted him out. That is brilliant.
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And then we had the biggest laugh. That is so good. I was like... I go, Shaq, do you know how extraordinary that is that you're allowing me to throw you out of an NBA basketball game? He was like, are you kidding me? That is so. And then it was so funny. All the I found out from one of the heads of the security that he goes, hey, I have to tell you, everyone appreciated the shout out.
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All the security people appreciate the shout out. I was like, oh, that's what I was. Yeah. Yeah. Actually, I was kind of making fun of you guys.
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I don't know if you want a real peek behind the curtain or not, but I don't know how to DJ. I was just all set up by my son. And he was like, Dad, can you come? It's Parents Weekend. Can you come by the fraternity house? And I'll just set it up. And you just have to twist knobs and pretend like to push buttons. So I just acted the part. But I do not.
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That's insane. I still forget that people have cameras attached to their phones. I don't know if you guys ever feel that way, but I'm like, I still sometimes...
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I showed it up for 15 minutes, and then I went to the football game. I didn't think twice about it. And then Monday, it, like, blows up, and I'm thinking, what? Wait, what? Oh, right. All these kids were filming it. Anyway. So good. It's fun to just kind of – I just love kind of doing those – kind of out-of-the-box things just to mingle with people.
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Yeah, thank you.
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Well, let's just say freshman year at University High School in Irvine, California, I dominated. Yeah, baby. Starting free safety and wide receiver. Two-way player. Two-way player.
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Co-MVP of the football team. Oh, my gosh. Basketball freshman player of the year, freshman basketball. Then I played baseball. And it was downhill. Downhill from there. I was six one and a half as like a freshman. So you had some height advantage. And then I think by the time I graduated, I was six three. So I only grew an inch and a half more over the next.
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couple years but uh but yeah i'd never played football and i played a lot of soccer and i also was i also was doing you know the kicking and then i got called up to i made varsity as a sophomore as a kicker okay they wanted me to play safety too but i was like you guys i weigh 145 pounds i pay 150 and i'm not oh my gosh something about i never come i
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let's just say no one was looking at me for the, for proper tackling form.
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I would set up the right way. You're like, oh, Farrell's going to jack someone. And then I would go, no, that's okay. Yeah. So yeah, I was like, you know what? I'll just kick. I'll just kick. And I was really hoping actually to be a college kicker. We were a horrible football program. I think we were 1-8-1 my senior year. I can relate.
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50 in practice. Okay. You can boot it. And then I tried walking on at USC. My freshman year at USC, I saw in the athletic department that they were having walk-on tryouts. But it was in the fall, so obviously the team is already set. So I'm like, why not? I showed up and
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they we weren't allowed to kick on the field that actually had the field goals it was just a big and i was like i was like really accurate but i wouldn't say i was you know could boom it so we just i think we did i think it did like five kickoffs and then the guy just blew the whistle was like okay bring it in we're good And he was like, okay, huddle up. I'm the special teams coach.
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We're pretty good with our kicking situation right now, but if any of you guys want to play scout team, you know, running back or scout team, I was like, no, I've heard about scout team.
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So that, that was the extent of my, uh, my college athletic career.
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Yeah. I went to USC, had like, uh, had this sports information program. I was, uh, it's funny. I, I, I always wanted to get into comedy, but I kind of grew up in the entertainment industry. My dad's a musician.
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And had played in the best of places and in the worst of places. He's a piano player and super talented. And I just saw how unstable the entertainment business is.
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He would have a job at a nightclub for... for six months to a year. And then, and they'd be like, well, that's over. I'm like, what happened? It was like nothing. They just said, we're done. And you have to go back out and search and do all this stuff. And so I thought, well, I'm never going to do that. You know, I want to, I want like a real job.
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I didn't know what that meant, even though I loved comedy. I loved making my friends laugh. I loved watching comedy. I loved, you know, everything about it. But I also love sports. And I played sports all throughout high school. And SC had this program that was like sports journalism. So I thought, oh, that's a... That's a blending of both. And, you know, sports center had probably just started.