Does Anyone Still Find Will Ferrell Funny?

I never found him funny.

I only found him funny in spandex.

What R1 said.

I also never thought he was funny

This is so stupid.

Someone talked Jimmy Kimmel to interview these two in character. Jimmy is on ABC and this Rose Parade thing is on Amazon so you can’t blame it on inter-network promotion.

Is anything in this clip even slightly humorous?

Blades of Glory was 10 years ago,

I know, R6. Before then, he barely made me laugh in anything. Even in 2006's otherwise charming [italic]Curious George[/italic] movie, his role as The Man in the Yellow Hat could have been played by anyone.

That costume makes him look old. He's a one trick pony but he has funny moments. Just like a lot of the SNL comedians (Sandler, Farley, Jones, Morgan, Spade, Carvey, the list goes on).

I can't imagine the audience for this but who knows?

At least he's still creating, and not riding on fumes like Adam Sandler and other SNL alums.

I agree that it is admirable that WF is doing different things. He did that Spanish language movie and that Lifetime movie with Kristin Wiig which were both unpredictable and unexpected.

But it’s all just so unfunny.

Adam Sandler, dont' even start

R10: The concepts are funny. The execution rarely so. His timing is so amateurish and his manner is as smug as every other mainstream SNL-alum comedian or comic actor out there. You can feel sorry for the women who had to rise above all that douchebaggy shit, but up to the 2000s SNL had always been a boys club and he was the last to come out of that era before it changed.

Will’s character is wearing a bald cap because in 2018, nothing is funnier than a bald guy.

This is the comedy bit that Will did in his SNL audition that apparently landed him the job. It’s called “Get Off The Shed.”

To me, this is all that he’s capable of from a comedy perspective. This is not very funny but it’s the funniest character that he can do.

One note comedian. I’m sure he’ll get a Mark Twain prize for comedy in the next few years.

I loved the cheerleading skits with Sheri Oteri!

Wow, I didn't know "Get Off the Shed" was what he auditioned with. The sad thing is, they brought it back *twice* more, once at the end of the season with Christine Baranski, then three years later with Sarah Michelle Geller.

If I had to pick a personal least-favorite recurring character of his/that period, it'd be the drunken businessmen trading stories about BILL BRASKY!

That said, Will gave a surprisingly moving performance in The Spoils Before Dying, particularly when Eric Jonrosh pretty much stopped being a character and instead straight up Orson Welles. I guess Will could relate to the idea of passing your prime.

He was moving enough in his drama "Stranger than Fiction". Good direector and costars (Emily Watson, Mags Gyllenhaal)? Like everyone upthread, I find his comedy tryhard and unfunny. Ok, he was fine impersonating W Bush in a skit.

Very overrated. His George W Bush was right out of community theater.

I've never thought he was funny. I DO like Molly Shannon, though (usually).

That Dubya impression was pretty overrated, too. It made things awkward when he left in 2002 and you had six years of middling to not even trying takes (Parnell, Hammond, Forte) on the role.

Forgot Jason Sudekis played George at the end.

Appallingly unfunny guy. You can add Steve Carell, Chevy Chase, Jack Back and Seth Rogan to the list.

He has his moments, but I think most of the time he's carried by more talented co-stars, acting wise.

He's supposed to be very smart and great to work with. I also appreciate the fact that he takes some creative risks, even if they don't always work.

I forgot about his George W Bush show on Broadway.

Another interesting, unexpected project that was probably painfully unfunny.

Did anyone here see it?

Here he is explaining why Get Off the Shed is funny

If you have to explain why something is funny, then you've already lost the argument.

I think straight people find him funny. Right?

Here’s Get of the Shed but this time it’s in an office and includes Pierce Brosnan

I laughed at a lot of his stuff...not lately.

Straight guys think hes hilarious,I never got the appeal.

He did seem to embody the dubious principle, "Yelling = funny."

I saw his show on Broadway and thought it was awful. Imagine an SNL skit drawn out for two hours; I want to say there was an intermission, which just made the damn thing feel even longer. He seemed so proud of his impersonation that he forgot to actually craft a script with any bit or insightful satire/parody.

R27, wrong.

BDF, right?

I must admit, I do find the first half of STEP BROTHERS really funny. It was playing on an airplane recently and I was giggling so much, I had to explain it to my seat mate.

His Rose Bowl commentary is going to be a rip off of the Fred Willard dog show commentary from Best in Show

Will Ferrell. Recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC., on Oct. 23, 2011.

Did you not know that, R14, or were you going for some bizarre sort of irony?

"I like to kick, stretch, annnnnnnd kick. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'm 50! Fifty years old."

Oh, and they gave it to Cosby two years earlier, so there you go. AND Leno.

I never found him funny. Ever.

Regardless if you think he's funny or not I think it's safe to say his career has stalled for the moment. He's definitely not as hot as he used to be.

I always liked the cheerleader sketches, and still do.

I had little opinion, good or bad, otherwise...

Until he and Wiig did the Lifetime movie, playing it straight, and with a sense of honoring the absurdity of that idea. THAT is when I became a fan, because it's such a strange thing. I respect that he thinks in terms of expanding what comedy can be, and that's rare.

R38, I always loved those Sally O'Malley sketches, but what makes me laugh now is that no 50 year old today would be caught dead with her general look and attitude. Somebody who's 70, maybe.

Speaking of that, Sally debuted 18 years ago!

He's great, if you like aging frat boy humor.

His GWBush impersonation was garbage.

*Still*?!

[quote] He did seem to embody the dubious principle, "Yelling = funny."

No, the principle is "yelling = funny when Zero Mostel does it."

I agree about Stepbrothers being unexpectedly hilarious in parts. 'For a second there? I think you took on the shape of a unicorn.'

I was never a big fan, but I did like some of his SNL sketches, mainly for the other performers.

[quote]R47 I agree about Stepbrothers being unexpectedly hilarious in parts. 'For a second there? I think you took on the shape of a unicorn.'

I'm relieved someone else here thinks it's funny, too!

Their dry parents crack me up, and this scene makes me laugh:

He’s super liberal and was an early Bernie supporter. After Hillary got the nomination he campaigned for her (take note Ms. Sarandon) at a N.C. State football game last fall, not a very receptive crowd for liberal ideas. He also refused to meet GWB back when he was imitating him because he disliked his politics so much.

Rumor is that he has purchased a large house on a lake in north Raleigh as most of his extended family lives in and around the Triangle area.

Never found him to be funny. Actually, I feel embarrassed for him when I see him perform.

We'll always have Mugatu.

Here’s Get Off the Shed but this time it’s in a suburban house and includes Gwynneth Paltrow

All he needs to do is team up with Adam Sandler in a movie then his career will chin deep in the shittter.

Even Molly Shannon is one-cord funny. Her schtick is done.

I love him and own all of his movies minus the Mark Wahlbergerson movies.

R47, did we just become best friends? YUP.

Hey, I never asked you. Do you like guacamole?

And yes, he's fantastic as Mugatu. Am I taking crazy pills?

Not funny. Ever. Avoid like the plague.

His trolling of the drummer from Red Hot Chili Peppers is funny and Pearl the Landlord. Oh and that video he did campaigning for Kerry as W.

What R1 said, I've heard based on what I read here on DL that he's gay and closeted.

Oh dear, he’s being aggressively unfunny again.

Is he paying for this himself? No one wants to see this because NO ONE CARES.

This guy needs a day job, leave show biz to the entertainers.

I doubt even elementary/Jr HS kids find him to be funny.

On DL I read rumors about how he's gay and in a marriage of convenience, any truth to this?

Just fix the thread title: ”Does Anyone Find Will Ferrell Funny?” It would’ve been a considerably shorter thread.

[quote] I think straight people find him funny. Right?

Uh, no...

Will Ferrell has a Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Johnny Carson does not.

R65 I wonder which male executive/producer Will Ferrell had to sleep with in order to get that?

Oh God, this sketch with Sarah Michelle Gellar, when he screams I own the dodge stratus! It was funny. Also broken teleprompter. It was snl.

Funny for TELEVISION. Most of his films, like many SNL alumni, are mediocre.

I like Will and Molly but this wasn't funny.

I have always found him off-putting for some reason.

I think "Land of the Lost" was a supremely unlikable movie in addition to being unfunny.

I tend to avoid films with him in them, so maybe I've missed out on some things.

Never found him funny.

He is annoying, and not funny at all. Never was, never will be.

I liked him and Ana Gasteyer as the Culps.

I never found him funny, ever.