Will Ferrell

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Wikidata Q218503: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

No film of theirs is counted: acting and studio count only when asked for, so what they drew on and who drew on them comes only from the lines with them at one end. Count them as actor (18 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Tim Robinson: 1 line

  1. unmapped (successor) · them, directly: Will Ferrell ⇒ Tim Robinson (the host's read). Robinson plays a similar cocky-idiot character but is more niche; quotes spread through memes.
    “I think he's kind of even trying to do the same character style of like the cocky idiot”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:10:15 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (24) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (4)

  1. career (career): Danny McBride → Will Ferrell. McBride is the funniest since Ferrell, holding the belt after Anchorman.
    “I said he was the he's the funniest guy since Ferrell.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:26:30 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. career (career comparison): Will Ferrell → Mike Myers. Ferrell tried Myers' playbook of turning an SNL character into a movie, but never got his Wayne's World.
    “He tried to take a character from the show and make a movie out of it, and that was not successful.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:03:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (career launch): Old School → Will Ferrell. The film launches Ferrell as a movie lead and became the template for all his later characters.
    “this character kind of is the template for all the characters he would play in a movie”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:03:59 · Chris Ryan (0.55 sure it was them)
  4. career (career run): Will Ferrell → Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Old School, Elf, and Anchorman are Ferrell's back-to-back-to-back three-movie run.
    “So Pharaoh rips off old school Elf Anchorman, just back to back to back.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:15:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Eddie Murphy → Will Ferrell. Eddie's comedy does not evaporate when a joke fails; Ferrell's and Carrey's depend on the laugh.
    “He's not gonna evaporate if the joke doesn't work.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:20:16 · Wesley Morris (0.70 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Mike Myers → Will Ferrell. Ferrell probably takes over for Myers as top comic of his generation.
    “He probably takes over for Myers after Myers's run.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:47 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (character origin): Will Ferrell → Old School. Frank the Tank is an extension of his SNL Dodge Stratus guy, the suburban insanity of domesticity.
    “Frank the Tank is kind of the Dodge Stratus extension.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:35 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

people (4)

  1. people (collaborators): Will Ferrell → Adam McKay. They made only four films together as director and star.
    “Those are the only movies that McKay directed that Farrell acted in.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:06:31 · Danny Heifetz (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (scene-stealing cameo): Will Ferrell → Zoolander. Ferrell's Mugatu is arguably the funniest person in Zoolander.
    “He is arguably the funniest person in that movie in some of those movies, like the Mugattu in Zoolander.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:15:05 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. people (scene-stealing cameo): Will Ferrell → Wedding Crashers. Ferrell as Chaz in Wedding Crashers is called the best part.
    “Literally the most best part of Wedding Crashers?”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:15:30 · Danny Heifetz (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. people (people): Roy Lee Farrell → Will Ferrell. Will Ferrell's father, a saxophonist and keyboardist with the Righteous Brothers, has a song in the film.
    “the Will Ferrell's dad played sacks and keyboards with the righteous brothers for like 20 years.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:35:44 · Danny Kelly (0.30 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (analogy): Will Ferrell → Steph Curry. Ferrell is the Steph Curry of comedy: highest three-point percentage while taking the most threes.
    “Will Ferrell actually, to me, is like the Steph Curry of comedy in that he somehow has the highest three-point percentage, even though he's also taking the most threes.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:09:42 · Danny Heifetz (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (4)

  1. unmapped (split): Will Ferrell → Adam McKay. They fell out when McKay passed over Ferrell for the Jerry Buss role in Winning Time and cast John C. Reilly.
    “McKay didn't want Farrell and picked John C. Riley.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:07:51 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (successor): Will Ferrell → Tim Robinson. Robinson plays a similar cocky-idiot character but is more niche; quotes spread through memes.
    “I think he's kind of even trying to do the same character style of like the cocky idiot”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:10:15 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (successor): Will Ferrell → Shane Gillis. Gillis is floated as the person who could be the next big comedy movie star.
    “I think it's Shane Gillis, although... I don't know.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:22:25 · Danny Heifetz (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (second banana): John C. Reilly → Will Ferrell. Reilly happily plays number two to Ferrell like Jeff Daniels with Jim Carrey.
    “Kind of like Jeff Daniels with Jim Carrey.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:25:54 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (casting what-if): Will Ferrell → What About Bob?. Only Will Ferrell, in his view, could also have played Bob over 35-40 years; but Murray has a character-actor gear Ferrell may lack.
    “I actually think Will Ferrell would have also crushed this part.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:08:08 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Will Ferrell: Hot take that the film is too glossy and Hollywood, and that comedy is better practical than with CGI.
    “it felt like it was too high budget.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:20:38 · Danny Kelly (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Will Ferrell: Who won the movie: Ferrell, as the biggest movie star in the world and defining comedy guy; hosts lament the loss of the star era.
    “Farrel wins the movie.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 2:02:58 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Will Ferrell: Ferrell really ran naked in the streaking sequence, horrifying locals at a 24-hour gym; the second part filmed during the Snoop performance and he needed a drink first.
    “In the streaking sequence, Will Ferrell ran naked for real.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:44:02 · Bill Simmons (0.45 sure it was them)