Will Ferrell

I want to be one of those guys, you know? And so I graduated and then was trying to get a job with local cable stations. And, you know, you have to like build a tape and send it out to these small markets to get hired as the, you know, the sportscaster in Arizona. Yeah.

I want to be one of those guys, you know? And so I graduated and then was trying to get a job with local cable stations. And, you know, you have to like build a tape and send it out to these small markets to get hired as the, you know, the sportscaster in Arizona. Yeah.

I want to be one of those guys, you know? And so I graduated and then was trying to get a job with local cable stations. And, you know, you have to like build a tape and send it out to these small markets to get hired as the, you know, the sportscaster in Arizona. Yeah.

They have to be gold, dude.

They have to be gold, dude.

They have to be gold, dude.

But at the same time, I thought, you know what? This itch is not going away. I better scratch it about the comedy thing. So at the same time, I started doing classes at this improv theater in Los Angeles called The Groundlings where – I had seen tons of people had gone on to sitcoms, to Saturday Night Live, to film and television, performers, writers, directors, everything. I thought,

But at the same time, I thought, you know what? This itch is not going away. I better scratch it about the comedy thing. So at the same time, I started doing classes at this improv theater in Los Angeles called The Groundlings where – I had seen tons of people had gone on to sitcoms, to Saturday Night Live, to film and television, performers, writers, directors, everything. I thought,

But at the same time, I thought, you know what? This itch is not going away. I better scratch it about the comedy thing. So at the same time, I started doing classes at this improv theater in Los Angeles called The Groundlings where – I had seen tons of people had gone on to sitcoms, to Saturday Night Live, to film and television, performers, writers, directors, everything. I thought,

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.

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.

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.