July 04, 2007

Mean Kid Will Ferrell's little daughter is mean. Mean, I tell you. (Embedded videos)
posted by Skrik 17 years ago
  • According to the comments on that blog that ain't Will's spawn.
  • I liked the landlord one. The cop one... well... she didn't really summon the tantrum pathos, did she? Just not as scary.
  • I continue to fail to see why everyone thinks that man is so funny. Meh.
  • He is funny, mostly in a physical way; but I can't stand maybe 90% of his movies due to the formulaic, sweatshop offerings they are.
  • I'm with you, Weezel. For years, I gave Will the benefit of the doubt, that he really was funny and I just didn't get it, on the basis that he was Mike Farrell's younger brother. That ended once wikipedia came along.
  • He's a very likeable, very earnest comedian. The problem so far has been: his movies are mostly crap.
  • I just don't see it. His SNL alum rave about him, too, but I haven't the faintest idea why. I remember watching him in interview with Barbara Walters, and it was agonizing, watching him try to be funny without the benefit of someone else's script. But to each his or her own.
  • I really liked Anchorman and the NASCAR movie, formulaic though they might have been. I agree that he's not funny in interviews, but in character, boy, I think he's gold.
  • And Pearl is cute as a button!
  • Yeah.
  • I think the thing about Farrell is that, when in character, he seems *unintentionally* funny, and by doing so he forces us all to channel the big, amiable doof we all have amongst our friends, who says screwball things in perfect seriousness, can drink gallons of beer at a sitting, bonks into things and emits curses like "oh, fucknut!" and is universally beloved by everyone who knows him for being a colossal hairy tabula rasa of good-naturedness. Mine's name is "Mike," and I've had more fun in the company of that man that probably any other person on the planet.
  • I think there are a couple of things about former SNL members' films and why they quite often fail. Remember, SNL skits are just that, a skit. Many of the movies that are developed for former SNL comedians are simply extensions of their best skits. It's uncommon to make an even decent 90 minute comedy out of what was a hilarious 3 minute skit. What's funny for 3 minutes can become unbearable 30 minutes into a feature film. For every BLUES BROTHERS (not really a skit, but a musical act) there's plenty of cinematic road kill like CONE HEADS and STUART SAVES HIS FAMILY. The skit form just doesn't translate that well to a feature film. The other thing is that most of the time they can't afford more than one or two big name former SNL stars. You just don't have the "critical mass" of funny performers. GHOST BUSTERS (not developed from an old SNL skit, but an SNL vehicle nonetheless) worked in part due to this critical mass of the star players. Although this theory fails regarding CONEHEADS. That was a stinker even with Akkroyd, Curtin and Neuman.
  • I kind of liked Coneheads.
  • One man's meat is another man's cinematic road kill...
  • Ferrell is a classic "character" comedian, in the same vein as Martin Short or Lily Tomlin. Usually only about half of their characters "work" for me, and the rest I don't find funny at all. The "cheerleaders" skits he did with Cheri Oteri were bad enough to make me change the channel until they were over.
  • My god though he puts a guy like Jim Carrey to shame. Talk about someone who tries too hard.
  • I did like his Neil Diamond impression. And he did a pretty good GWB. But most of the time I'm with the "Meh" crowd.