Will Ferrell

Made films the shows talk about.

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

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Austin Powers (1997); Judgment Day (1999); Zoolander (2001); Elf (2003); Old School (2003); Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004); Kicking and Screaming (2005); Wedding Crashers (2005); Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006); Blades of Glory (2007); Semi-Pro (2008); Step Brothers (2008); The Other Guys (2010); Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013); Daddy's Home 2 (2017); Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga; Night at the Roxbury; Stranger Than Fiction.

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.

Animal House (1978): 2 lines

  1. lineage (genre lineage) · through Old School (2003), which they acted in: Animal House ⇒ Old School (the host's read). Animal House started the habit of a winnable conflict set-piece that comedies copied for ten years, and Old School revived it.
    “I think Animal House started it and then the next 10 years of comedy is ripped off”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:34:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (genre lineage) · through Old School (2003), which they acted in: Animal House ⇒ Old School (the host's read). Old School is the latest in a frat-movie cycle that returns every 10 to 15 years, starting with Animal House.
    “It is in keeping with the kind of every 10 to 15 years frat movie that we now get.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:05:23 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004): 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (title formula) · through Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), which they acted in: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy ⇒ Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (the host's read). The Ballad of Ricky Bobby echoes the Legend of Ron Burgundy naming pattern of the 2006 era.
    “Honestly, that's a 2006 thing is titling movies like this.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:02:38 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40 sure it was them)

Back to School (1986): 1 line

  1. craft (shared structural flaw) · through Old School (2003), which they acted in: Back to School ⇒ Old School (the host's read). The late competition-element plot is a flaw borrowed from Back to School and also seen in Stripes' war.
    “when it starts to become too much like back to school, you know, where there's like a competition element to it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:34:32 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Days of Thunder (1990): 1 line

  1. unmapped (parody target) · through Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), which they acted in: Days of Thunder ⇒ Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (the host's read). The film is not a direct parody but spoofs movies like Days of Thunder; Reilly was in both.
    “I don't think this movie is like a direct parody of that, but it is parodying movies like Days of Thunder.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:05:52 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50 sure it was them)

Frat House (1998): 1 line

  1. lineage (creator precursor) · through Old School (2003), which they acted in: Frat House ⇒ Old School (the host's read). Phillips' frat documentary is a template for the movie.
    “Frat House, which is this really interesting kind of template for the movie that we're going to talk about.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:09:56 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

Happy Gilmore (1996): 1 line

  1. unmapped (shared gag) · through Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), which they acted in: Happy Gilmore ⇒ Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (the host's read). Ricky Bobby signing a woman's chest echoes Happy Gilmore.
    “there's a scene when Ricky Bobby signs a woman's chest and it's exactly like Happy Gilmore when he signs the woman.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:15:11 · Craig Horlbeck (0.70 sure it was them)

Ivan Reitman: 1 line

  1. lineage (filmmaker lineage) · through Old School (2003), which they acted in: Ivan Reitman ⇒ Old School (the host's read). Phillips and Armstrong's movie owes a lot to Ivan Reitman's 80s comedies; it is their son.
    “it owes a lot to the Ivan Reitman comedies of the 80s.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:05:45 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Road Trip (2000): 1 line

  1. people (same director groundwork) · through Old School (2003), which they acted in: Road Trip ⇒ Old School (the host's read). Road Trip, Phillips' first narrative film, laid groundwork for the R-rated run; it is set at an upstate New York college like Old School.
    “Todd Phillips's 1st movie. First narrative movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:09:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006): 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (repeated joke) · through Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013), which they acted in: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ⇒ Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (the host's read). Anchorman 2 recycled the pretending-to-be-blind gag from Talladega's paralyzed scene.
    “And like, that's just the Talladega paralyzed scene.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:21:14 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)

There's Something About Mary (1998): 1 line

  1. unmapped (groundwork) · through Old School (2003), which they acted in: There's Something About Mary ⇒ Old School (the host's read). Farrelly brothers hits like Mary laid the ground for Road Trip and the R-rated wave.
    “All of those kind of laid the ground for, uh, road trip.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:08:55 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

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

Jay-Z: 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Blades of Glory (2007), which they acted in: Blades of Glory ⇒ Jay-Z (the host's read). A host notes the Jay-Z and Kanye album Watch the Throne opens by clipping Blades of Glory.
    “think about watch the throne. literally starts by clipping Blades of Glory.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:32:54 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry) · through Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), which they acted in: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ⇒ Jay-Z (the host's read). A host theorizes the Jay-Z and Beyonce song "Apeshit" (video shot in the Louvre) only exists because this film made "ape shit" a thing.
    “I do not think that Beyonce and Jay-Z make a song called Apeshit without this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:33:15 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013): 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (repeated joke) · through Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), which they acted in: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ⇒ Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (the host's read). Anchorman 2 recycled the pretending-to-be-blind gag from Talladega's paralyzed scene.
    “And like, that's just the Talladega paralyzed scene.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 0:21:14 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)

Life of the Party (2018): 1 line

  1. unmapped (borrowed from) · through Old School (2003), which they acted in: Old School ⇒ Life of the Party (the host's read). Melissa McCarthy's Life of the Party is basically a solo Old School, down to the closing pop-star performance.
    “That is basically like a solo old school about how she goes back to school.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:28:32 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006): 1 line, within their own work

  1. unmapped (title formula) · through Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), which they acted in: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy ⇒ Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (the host's read). The Ballad of Ricky Bobby echoes the Legend of Ron Burgundy naming pattern of the 2006 era.
    “Honestly, that's a 2006 thing is titling movies like this.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:02:38 · Craig Horlbeck (0.40 sure it was them)

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)