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I can’t lie I love Will Ferrell. I think he’s absolutely hilarious. From SNL, to “The Other Guys” I just die laughing.

Ferrell made his big break on SNL, his impressions of Alex Trebek, James Lipton, Harry Caray, and of course President George W. Bush became iconic and regular skits on the show. Form SNL, he developed a regular skit into a movie, that movie of course being “Night at the Roxbury”. 

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            I find the manner in which Ferrell’s movies are written and produced to be highly interesting. If you think of movies like “Step Brothers”, “Anchorman”, or “Talladega Nights”, a great deal of the funniest scenes in these movies are largely improvised by Ferrell and his cast members. The script of course is written to give a general direction to the scene, but Ferrell and the other actors would shoot many variations of the same scene again and again all the while improvising new dialogue, and in my opinion, coming up with absolute comedic gold.

            This of course isn’t high-brow comedy that really comments on society or makes the viewer consider the truths of the universe, but there’s no way you’re not laughing. I don’t think the lack of depth or “meaning” discredits the work at all, mainly because people don’t realize that improvisation comedy is ridiculously hard. There are just some actors that can’t improvise at all, and are completely confined by a script. It take a unique kind of talent to take a written suggest and develop a uniquely hilarious scene, and more than likely eight other versions.

            If you’ve ever seen Will Ferrell in any interview or any late night show, you know that he has a natural comedic gift. No one is working to hard to write a script for him that “shows his talent”.

            I’m sure you can all think of actors you’ve exclusively seen in drama and have never made the cross over to comedy. Likely, this isn’t because comedy is a lesser form of entertainment with not as much worth, more than likely, it’s because they just aren’t funny. Comedy requires timing and incite as to how to structure the joke so it hits the audience in the best way possible. I mean, anyone can do straight drama. Maybe not to the level of Sean Penn or Christian Bale, but there’s no doubt that producers and directors could shape the scene around the actor and really make them look good. However, you can’t simply edit someone to be funny.