Will Ferrell
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19 recordings
11 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 26 Aug
Will Ferrell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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50 in practice. Okay. You can boot it. And then I tried walking on at USC. My freshman year at USC, I saw in the athletic department that they were having walk-on tryouts. But it was in the fall, so obviously the team is already set. So I'm like, why not? I showed up and
they we weren't allowed to kick on the field that actually had the field goals it was just a big and i was like i was like really accurate but i wouldn't say i was you know could boom it so we just i think we did i think it did like five kickoffs and then the guy just blew the whistle was like okay bring it in we're good And he was like, okay, huddle up. I'm the special teams coach.
We're pretty good with our kicking situation right now, but if any of you guys want to play scout team, you know, running back or scout team, I was like, no, I've heard about scout team.
So that, that was the extent of my, uh, my college athletic career.
Yeah. I went to USC, had like, uh, had this sports information program. I was, uh, it's funny. I, I, I always wanted to get into comedy, but I kind of grew up in the entertainment industry. My dad's a musician.
And had played in the best of places and in the worst of places. He's a piano player and super talented. And I just saw how unstable the entertainment business is.
He would have a job at a nightclub for... for six months to a year. And then, and they'd be like, well, that's over. I'm like, what happened? It was like nothing. They just said, we're done. And you have to go back out and search and do all this stuff. And so I thought, well, I'm never going to do that. You know, I want to, I want like a real job.
I didn't know what that meant, even though I loved comedy. I loved making my friends laugh. I loved watching comedy. I loved, you know, everything about it. But I also love sports. And I played sports all throughout high school. And SC had this program that was like sports journalism. So I thought, oh, that's a... That's a blending of both. And, you know, sports center had probably just started.
Let's see. I was in, I graduated in 90. So that was kind of the beginning of ESPN and boom.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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