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Will Ferrell
A graduate of the University of Southern California, Will Ferrell became interested in performing while a student at University High School in Irvine, California, where he made his school's daily morning announcements over the public address system in disguised voices. He started as a member of the Los Angeles comedy/improvisation group The Groundlings, where fellow cast members Ana Gasteyer, Maya Rudolph and former "Saturday Night Live" repertory players such as Laraine Newman, Jon Lovitz and Phil Hartman began their careers. It was there he met Chris Kattan and the two became good friends and both went on to "Saturday Night Live" later. He has also appeared on several television programs, including "Strangers with Candy" (1999), "Grace Under Fire" (1993) and "Living Single" (1993) during his time at The Groundlings. Will also lent his voice to the armless and legless dad of cartoon family "The Oblongs".
From 1995 to 2002 he was a regular on "Saturday Night Live" finding a natural showcase for his comic talents, impersonations and a wide range of characters. When he left In 2002 he received a farewell from all the current cast members at the end of the season finale show.
He has appeared in a large number of popular comedy films including Elf (2003), Anchorman (2004), Talledega Nights (2006), and more serious work such as Stranger Than Fiction (2006) showing that there's more to him than cheap laughs.
In 2000 he married and now lives in L.A with his wife and 3 sons.
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Will Ferrell's Bill Cosby prank for Zach Galifianakis -
9 October 2012
-Funnyman Will Ferrell played a cruel prank on Zach Galifianakis by giving him a fake Bill Cosby signature after learning The Hangover star had pined for the autograph since childhood.-The actors played rival politicians in The Campaign, and Ferrell reveals he and Gal
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Will Ferrell hurls abuse at chicks on TV -
9 August 2012
-Funnyman Will Ferrell turned the air blue during a late-night skit on U.S. TV show Conan on Wednesday (08Aug12) when he started hurling abuse at a box of baby chickens.-The Old School star was game for the X-rated porn spoof Big Dick, Little Chicks and agreed to be t
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Will Ferrell interviews Australia's prime minister -
8 August 2012
-Will Ferrell put his political knowledge to the test this week (beg06Aug12) by interviewing Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard.-The funnyman, who plays a politician in new movie The Campaign, was given a chance to grill Gillard during an appearance on Aussie TV
Will Ferrell - what members say
review by imran from London
Hilarious Stuff 7 November 2004
review by from Herts, UK
One of the best 22 March 2005
review by BH101 from Cambridge
Masterpiece of its type 11 December 2006
Will Ferrell - filmography
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Casa de mi Padre
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Will Ferrell, Gael Garcia Bernal, Nick Offerman
Director: Matt Piedmont
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Armando Alvarez has lived and worked on his father's ranch in Mexico his entire life. As the ranch encounters financial difficulties, Armando's younger brother Raul shows up with his new fiancee, Sonia. It seems that Raul's success as an international businessman means the ranch's troubles are over ..read more »
 
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The Campaign
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Brian Cox, Katherine La Nasa, John Lithgow
Director: Jay Roach
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Jay Roach directs this political comedy starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis. The film follows two rival politicians from the American South as they vie to win an election to represent their small North Carolina congressional district in the US House of Representatives. When congressman Cam ..read more »
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The Campaign - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Brian Cox, Katherine La Nasa, John Lithgow
Director: Jay Roach
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Jay Roach directs this political comedy starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis. The film follows two rival politicians from the American South as they vie to win an election to represent their small North Carolina congressional district in the US House of Representatives. When congressman Cam ..read more »
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Bear Grylls - Born Survivor - Men Vs Wild
(2011)
Starring: Will Ferrell, Bear Grylls
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Special episode of the survival-themed documentary in which Bear Grylls takes comedian and actor Will Ferrell with him on a journey through the frozen wilds of Sweden. Among the challenges Grylls and Ferrell face are abseiling to ground from a helicopter, rappelling down a waterfall and attempting ..read more »
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Megamind
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill
Director: Tom McGrath
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From the studio that brought you "Shrek," "Madagascar" and "Kung Fu Panda." Megamind is the most brilliant supervillain the world has ever known. And the least successful. Over the years, he has tried to conquer Metro City in every imaginable way. Each attempt, a colossal failure thanks to the ..read more »
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The Other Guys
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes
Director: Adam McKay
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Allen Gamble (Ferrell) and Terry Hoitz (Wahlberg) are partnered NYPD detectives who work in the forensic accounting department and rarely see any action. Gamble is more than happy with his job while Hoitz has been assigned against his will after a public incident with his quick trigger finger. They ..read more »
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The Other Guys - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes
Director: Adam McKay
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Allen Gamble (Ferrell) and Terry Hoitz (Wahlberg) are partnered NYPD detectives who work in the forensic accounting department and rarely see any action. Gamble is more than happy with his job while Hoitz has been assigned against his will after a public incident with his quick trigger finger. They ..read more »
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Everything Must Go - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Rebecca Hall, Will Ferrell, Michael Pena
Director: Dan Rush
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Everything Must Go tells the story of Nick Porter (Will Ferrell - Anchorman, Step Brothers) a man who sells "salesmanship" for a living, but the days of being on top of his game are long gone. After delivering an inspiring presentation to his sales staff, Nick is fired for falling off the wagon one ..read more »
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Everything Must Go
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Rebecca Hall, Will Ferrell, Michael Pena
Director: Dan Rush
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Everything Must Go tells the story of Nick Porter (Will Ferrell - Anchorman, Step Brothers) a man who sells "salesmanship" for a living, but the days of being on top of his game are long gone. After delivering an inspiring presentation to his sales staff, Nick is fired for falling off the wagon one ..read more »
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Megamind - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Jonah Hill, Brad Pitt, Will Ferrell
Director: Tom McGrath
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CGI-animated super-hero comedy by the DreamWorks animation studio. After not-so-brilliant super-villain Megamind (voiced by Will Ferrell) finally succeeds in killing his good-guy nemesis Metro Man (Brad Pitt) after years of botched attempts, he becomes directionless and bored without a worthwhile ..read more »
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Megamind - 3D Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Brad Pitt, Will Ferrell, Jonah Hill
Director: Tom McGrath
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CGI-animated super-hero comedy by the DreamWorks animation studio. After not-so-brilliant super-villain Megamind (voiced by Will Ferrell) finally succeeds in killing his good-guy nemesis Metro Man (Brad Pitt) after years of botched attempts, he becomes directionless and bored without a worthwhile ..read more »
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Land of the Lost
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Ben Best, John Boylan, Will Ferrell
Director: James L. Henderson, Brad Silberling
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Space-time vortexes suck. Dr. Rick Marshall is sucked into one and spat back through time. Way back. Now, Marshall has no weapons, few skills and questionable smarts to survive in an alternate universe full of marauding dinosaurs and fantastic creatures from beyond our world--a place of spectacular ..read more »
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Will Ferrell - You're Welcome America - ...
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Will Ferrell
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Will Ferrell is captured performing his one-man Broadway show lampooning the 43rd President of the United States one last time before the end of George W. Bush's eight-year term. From the former president's charmed childhood to his rowdy college years, his post-collegiate stint as co-owner of the ..read more »
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Step Brothers - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen
Director: Adam McKay
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Brennan Huff, a sporadically employed thirty-nine-year-old, lives with his mother, Nancy. Dale Doback, a terminally unemployed forty-year-old lives with his father, Robert. When Robert and Nancy marry and move in together, Brennan and Dale are forced to live with each other as step brothers. As ..read more »
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Step Brothers
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen
Director: Adam McKay
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Brennan Huff, a sporadically employed thirty-nine-year-old, lives with his mother, Nancy. Dale Doback, a terminally unemployed forty-year-old lives with his father, Robert. When Robert and Nancy marry and move in together, Brennan and Dale are forced to live with each other as step brothers. As ..read more »
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Blades of Glory
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler, Will Arnett
Director: Josh Gordon, Will Speck
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In 2002, two rival Olympic ice skaters were stripped of their gold medals and permanently banned from men's single competition. Presently, however, they've found a loophole that will allow them to qualify as a pairs team.
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Stranger Than Fiction - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah, Tony Hale
Director: Marc Forster
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Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) is a dour Chicago auditor for the Internal Revenue Service who is awakened alone each morning by his Timex watch, eats alone, counts the number of steps he walks for fun, focuses on ways to save time tying his tie, and brushes his teeth exactly 76 times (38 vertical ..read more »
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Bewitched
(2005)
Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Kristin Chenoweth, Steve Carell
Director: Nora Ephron
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Crafty comedy in which Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell star as actors playing Darrin and Samantha on a remake of the television show 'Bewitched'. Egomaniacal star Jack Wyatt (Ferrell) casts unknown Isabel (Kidman) as his co-star in order to monopolise the limelight and regain his top spot on ..read more »
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The Producers
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Ro, Uma Thurman, Robert Bartley
Director: Susan Stroman
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Remake of the classic Mel Brooks comedy, starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick as Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom, a scheming theatrical producer and his mousy assistant. The producers hit upon the perfect plan to embezzle a fortune: raise far more money than you need to produce a sure-fire ..read more »
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Kicking And Screaming
(2005)
Starring: Musetta Vander, Kate Walsh, Robert Duvall
Director: Jesse Dylan
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Family sports comedy, starring Will Ferrell. Phil Weston (Ferrell) has long had to put up with his own father Buck's (Robert Duvall) competitive and overbearing nature. But when Phil's son joins a Little League football team, Phil finds that his own competitive nature hasn't been buried as well as ..read more »
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Winter Passing
(2005)
Starring: Zooey Deschanel, Will Ferrell, Ed Harris
Director: Adam Rapp
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Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that an ex-grad student and a would-be musician have ..read more »
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Wedding Crashers
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Isla Fisher, Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell
Director: David Dobkin
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Outrageous comedy starring Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn as two divorce mediators who share one truly unique springtime hobby - crashing weddings. At the tail end of another successful season of toasting brides and grooms, Jeremy (Vaughn) learns that the daughter of Treasury Secretary William Cleary ..read more »
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Melinda And Melinda
(2004)
Starring: Wallace Shawn, Chloe Sevigny, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Director: Woody Allen
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Romantic comedy/tragedy written and directed by Woody Allen. Sy (Wallace Shawn) is having dinner with some friends when they begin debating the nature of the tragic and the humorous. Sy, observing that a very fine line separates the two, decides to demonstrate this by showing how the same story can ..read more »
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Starsky And Hutch
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: David Sou, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson
Director: Todd Phillips
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Detective David Starsky is the most dedicated undercover cop working the mean streets of Bay City, California. Maniacally devoted to his job, when he's on duty no crime goes unpunished--and he's always on duty. And that's a good thing, because he has some metaphorically big shoes to fill: his ..read more »
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Starsky And Hutch - Blu-ray
(2004)
Starring: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn
Director: Todd Phillips
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Big-screen action comedy based on the classic seventies cop series, starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson as the undercover police detectives David Starsky and Ken 'Hutch' Hutchinson. The pair are reluctant partners and when assigned their latest case by their boss, Captain Dobey (Fred Williamson), ..read more »
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Anchorman
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, Christina Applegate
Director: Adam McKay
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Goofball comedy directed by former Saturday Night Live writer Adam McKay. Will Ferrell stars as Ron Burgundy, a top-rated 1970s San Diego anchorman who believes women have a place in the newsroom - so long as they stick to covering fashion shows or late-breaking cooking news, that is. So when Ron ..read more »
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Saturday Night Live - The Best Of Will F...
(2004)
Starring: Will Ferrell
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A second volume of highlights from the classic America comedy show, featuring performances in sketches and stand-up from one of its biggest names, Will Ferrell.
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Old School
(2003)
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Jeremy Piven, Perrey Reeves
Director: Toby Phillips
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Director Todd Phillips (the man behind the controversial exposé 'Frat House'') looks at what happens to the guys after they have left college and settled down. Mitch (Luke Wilson) catches the early flight home after a business trip and finds his wife (Juliette Lewis) in bed with a room full of ..read more »
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Elf - Blu-ray
(2003)
Starring: Bob Newhart, Zooey Deschanel, James Caan
Director: Jon Favreau
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Christmas family comedy directed by independent filmmaker Jon Favreau. Will Ferrell stars as Buddy, a human being who has spent his whole life believing himself to be an elf. Brought up by Santa (Edward Asner) and his elves at the North Pole, Buddy has spent the last 30 years happily working in ..read more »
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Elf
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Bob Newhart, Zooey Deschanel, James Caan
Director: Jon Favreau
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Christmas family comedy directed by independent filmmaker Jon Favreau. Will Ferrell stars as Buddy, a human being who has spent his whole life believing himself to be an elf. Brought up by Santa (Edward Asner) and his elves at the North Pole, Buddy has spent the last 30 years happily working in ..read more »
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Zoolander - Blu-ray
(2001)
Starring: Natalie Portman, Winona Ryder, Jerry Stiller
Director: Ben Stiller
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When Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller), former winner of the coveted Male Model of the Year award, goes to work for up-and-coming fashion designer Mugatu (Will Ferrell), he has no idea that he is walking into a complex web of political intrigue and murder. Mugatu is planning the assassination of a ..read more »
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Zoolander
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Jerry Stiller, David Duchovny, Ben Stiller
Director: Ben Stiller
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When Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller), former winner of the coveted Male Model of the Year award, goes to work for up-and-coming fashion designer Mugatu (Will Ferrell), he has no idea that he is walking into a complex web of political intrigue and murder. Mugatu is planning the assassination of a ..read more »
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The Ladies Man
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, Karyn Parsons, John Witherspoon
Director: Reggie Hudlin
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Recently-sacked radio sex therapist Leon Phelps (Tim Meadows) is happy to receive a letter from a former lover offering him unlimited resources of love and money. But as the letter is unsigned, Leon has to search out his future benefactor by visiting all his former flames - and given Leon's ..read more »
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Superstar
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Gerry Bamman, Jason Blicker, Glynis Johns
Director: Bruce McCulloch
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Mary Katherine Gallagher ('Saturday Night Live' star Molly Shannon) is a teenage schoolgirl desperate to get a Hollywood style kiss from somone at her school. But no one will help her. So she decides to act like her Hollywood idols and enters a talent contest, sponsored by Catholic Teen Magazine, ..read more »
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Dick
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Dave Foley, Harry Shearer, Michelle Williams
Director: Andrew Fleming
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High school students Betsy Jobs (Kirsten Dunst) and Arlene Lorenzo (Michelle Williams) are on a trip round the White House in 1972 when they accidentally wander into a room where a shredding of top secret documents is taking place. Wondering just how much the girls now know, the powers-that-be ..read more »
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Men Seeking Woman
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Grant Shaud, Will Ferrell, Anthony Palermo
Director: Jim Milio
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Comedy drama starring Will Ferrell about three friends all born on the same day in the same hospital. After an unsuccessful night trying to pick up women in a nightclub on their 33rd birthdays, Les (Grant Shaud) proposes a bet - that all three guys should contribute $2000, with the winner being the ..read more »
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Will Ferrell - The Best Of Saturday Nigh...
Starring: Will Ferrell
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Highlights of Saturday Night Live star Will Ferrell's comic sketches, including Craig the Cheerleader, the Culp Brothers and President George W. Bush. Guests include Christopher Walken, Alex Baldwin, Drew Barrymore, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jim Carrey, Lucy Lawless, Sean Hayes and Charlie Sheen.
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Saturday Night Live: Very Best Of
Starring: Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell, Eddie Murphy
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Compilation of classic sketches and stand-up routines from the groundbreaking Saturday Night Live comedy show, featuring four of the biggest names from the cast, including Chris Rock, Will Ferrell, Eddie Murphy, and Adam Sandler. Guest stars include Christopher Walken, Drew Barrymore, Sarah ..read more »
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Saturday Night Live - Will Ferrell
on DVD
Starring: Will Ferrell
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Highlights from Will Ferrell's tenure on the American stand-up comedy show 'Saturday Night Live', showcasing many of his most memorable routines and sketches including 'Craig the Cheerleader', 'President George W. Bush', 'Celebrity Jeopardy', 'Bobbi and Marty Culp', 'Morning Latte' and 'Robert Goulet'.
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Will Ferrell facts
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...ng the way and the film is also a visual feast with a great soundtrack to boot. Will Ferrell is also very funny as the meglo-maniacal Mugato and I have to say this film was...
