Will Ferrell

oh, this is – they had a school I could kind of take all these classes at. And so I kind of was doing both at the same time. And I kind of found my – you know, you got to – as you guys probably know, you got to find your community. You got to find your support group. And that place in L.A., the Groundlings Theater, was where I felt safe enough to kind of go for it. And I was there for three years.

And then that spring of –

And then that spring of –

And then that spring of –

spring of 95 was when snl was doing like a nationwide search for a brand new cast because they knew they were going to let go uh it was gonna be the last year for like farley and sandler and dana carvey and and that whole group man so yeah happened to be at the right place at the right time when they came and watched one of our shows and went through the audition process and then

spring of 95 was when snl was doing like a nationwide search for a brand new cast because they knew they were going to let go uh it was gonna be the last year for like farley and sandler and dana carvey and and that whole group man so yeah happened to be at the right place at the right time when they came and watched one of our shows and went through the audition process and then

spring of 95 was when snl was doing like a nationwide search for a brand new cast because they knew they were going to let go uh it was gonna be the last year for like farley and sandler and dana carvey and and that whole group man so yeah happened to be at the right place at the right time when they came and watched one of our shows and went through the audition process and then

But you're in front of a full audience that's supportive and there and they want to see you have fun. I'm on the ground in that studio playing around like a cat. No one. No one's in – Warren Michaels purposely had no one in the studio to like create the tension of late night – like he wanted to create the pressure of what it's like to be on Saturday Night Live TV.

But you're in front of a full audience that's supportive and there and they want to see you have fun. I'm on the ground in that studio playing around like a cat. No one. No one's in – Warren Michaels purposely had no one in the studio to like create the tension of late night – like he wanted to create the pressure of what it's like to be on Saturday Night Live TV.

But you're in front of a full audience that's supportive and there and they want to see you have fun. I'm on the ground in that studio playing around like a cat. No one. No one's in – Warren Michaels purposely had no one in the studio to like create the tension of late night – like he wanted to create the pressure of what it's like to be on Saturday Night Live TV.

So I'm in a void rolling around going – oh my god i'm going back to la this is not like because because there's no one loud there's no one in the there's no one in the studio there's just a camera operator and a sound guy oh my gosh so good this is so this is my one of my favorites So it was almost like a prisoner torture technique. I just had to fight through it.

So I'm in a void rolling around going – oh my god i'm going back to la this is not like because because there's no one loud there's no one in the there's no one in the studio there's just a camera operator and a sound guy oh my gosh so good this is so this is my one of my favorites So it was almost like a prisoner torture technique. I just had to fight through it.

So I'm in a void rolling around going – oh my god i'm going back to la this is not like because because there's no one loud there's no one in the there's no one in the studio there's just a camera operator and a sound guy oh my gosh so good this is so this is my one of my favorites So it was almost like a prisoner torture technique. I just had to fight through it.

They basically had to do an audition that was anywhere from five to eight minutes long of any of the characters of your choice. Oh, nice. Okay. So that was one of the – I did another – I did Harry Carey doing a play reading. Okay.

They basically had to do an audition that was anywhere from five to eight minutes long of any of the characters of your choice. Oh, nice. Okay. So that was one of the – I did another – I did Harry Carey doing a play reading. Okay.

They basically had to do an audition that was anywhere from five to eight minutes long of any of the characters of your choice. Oh, nice. Okay. So that was one of the – I did another – I did Harry Carey doing a play reading. Okay.

so i did my harry carey impersonation and i did i did this sketch that i think really got me the job which was uh this dad at a barbecue yelling at his kids to get off the shed um and that piece i auditioned with later became the sketch that was in i did in my very first show oh that's cool as a cast member so that's cool so they brought that one to life nice yeah

so i did my harry carey impersonation and i did i did this sketch that i think really got me the job which was uh this dad at a barbecue yelling at his kids to get off the shed um and that piece i auditioned with later became the sketch that was in i did in my very first show oh that's cool as a cast member so that's cool so they brought that one to life nice yeah

so i did my harry carey impersonation and i did i did this sketch that i think really got me the job which was uh this dad at a barbecue yelling at his kids to get off the shed um and that piece i auditioned with later became the sketch that was in i did in my very first show oh that's cool as a cast member so that's cool so they brought that one to life nice yeah

But it was awful. I was like, I had no idea if I did well or not. And you just left going, oh, well, I guess they'll call me.