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With promotion overload this week featuring the cast of Anchorman 2, and Paul Rudd already hosting this weekend’s Saturday Night Live, and the fact that the movie stars and was written/directed by SNL alums, it was beyond inevitable that we’d see some crossover last Saturday night. We did. And then …
Will Ferrell was scheduled to appear today as guest anchor Ron Burgundy on ESPN’s SportsCenter. He’s shown above in a pre-recorded interview with Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning (who owns Papa John’s franchises and has been a spokesman for DirecTV, Buick, ESPN, Gatorade, Reebok, Sprint, MasterCard, Oreo and more). Previously: …
You don’t normally see method acting continue after production wraps on a movie. But then again, you haven’t seen a promotional effort quite as extensive as the one we’re currently seeing for Anchorman 2. It’s still more than two weeks before the film sequel has Will Ferrell and friends reviving …
Stay classy, Ben & Jerry’s! The ice cream makers from Vermont unveiled their latest custom comedy flavor last night, and it’s a boozy doozy — hold the booze. Ron Burgundy’s Scotchy Scotch Scotch, available for a limited time in the United States and Canada, is a butterscotch ice cream with …
In case you missed it, Will Ferrell showed up during one of Saturday Night Live‘s commercial breaks over the weekend — as Ron Burgundy — shilling for a Dodge Durango. And before you can wonder how Burgundy time-traveled from the late 1970s to today to know about SUVs or even …
“The rest of it — the actual audition — is a blur. And that’s a good sign. Because the best things in your life, I think, you don’t have a memory of because it goes by so quickly.” — So says Fred Armisen, about his Saturday Night Live audition, 11 …
After a couple of straight low-down dirty teases, there’s an official honest-to-goodness movie trailer for Anchorman: The Legend Continues, featuring actual footage from the movie sequel that lands in a movie theater near you this Christmas. Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, David Koechner, Steve Carell, Christina Applegate and more all return, …
What’s happening in the comedy world these days… Johnny Carson is coming back to your TVs in primetime, with Conan O’Brien hosting The Tonight Show once more? Yes, yes, and here’s why and how: A remix of classic interviews called Carson on TCM bows Monday nights this summer, starting July …
At the end of Tuesday night’s episode of Tosh.0 on Comedy Central, host and star Daniel Tosh took about 140 seconds to call out his several Twitter imposters. “It’s not a parody if it’s done this poorly!” Tosh said. “100,000 of you are stupid enough to believe this hack is …
Unless you lived in the area of Texas near Sherman, Denison and Ardmore, then your Super Bowl XLVII ad time on Sunday night didn’t include this minute-long ode to Old Milwaukee, in which Will Ferrell made one bus passenger’s lucky day. Except we live on the Internet now. So Old …
