Posts tagged as Will Ferrell
Performances By Actors Doing Woody Allen Impressions In Woody Allen Movies, In Ascending Order Of Quality
16. Jason Biggs, Anything Else
15. Kenneth Branagh, Celebrity READ MORE
"Worst Wedding DJ Ever": An Internet Video Sensation, Examined
In the past 24 hours, a clip entitled "Worst Wedding DJ EVER!" has crossed my transom multiple times, usually accompanied by an exhortation like "Too Funny!" or "OMG." In the clip, some guy in an ill-fitting suit is inspired to use some... unconventional percussion while he's leading a conga line through its motions from the stage. As with many funny videos that just happen to surface on YouTube, I had one important question: Was the thing real, or was it just stealth marketing for some TV show coming to a high-numbered cable channel this summer? I put my head together with Awl Internet Expert Miles Klee and we tried to figure things out. READ MORE
Land Of The Lost Great For Matt Lauer, Nobody Else
Earlier in the week, Variety delivered a largely negative review for the new Will Ferrell movie Land of the Lost. ("It's never a good sign when 'Today' host Matt Lauer... delivers the least irritating performance in a movie.") The film opens today. What's the critical consensus? READ MORE
Land Of The Lost Review: Too Much Dinosaur Doody
The early line on Will Ferrell's big-screen adaptation of Land of the Lost: "It's never a good sign when 'Today' host Matt Lauer... delivers the least irritating performance in a movie."
Okay, Fine, SNL Was Not Terrible This Year
Did you see Saturday Night Live this weekend? It's all over the Internet if you haven't and, you know what, there's probably a good reason for that: It was pretty solid. Against the odds, and given that it is what it is, i.e. a tired format whose impact has been severely diminished in our fast-paced etc., the show had a season that actually exceeded expectations. (All sorts of charts and graphs can be found here.) Anyway, everyone's going to be talking about the "Celebrity Jeopardy" skit, which was indeed hysterical, or the final skit which inexplicably featured a cameo from every celebrity who was in town this weekend, but we're embedding the opener, with Will Ferrell as George Bush lamenting the fact that Dick Cheney wasn't the kind of Vice President who said stupid things to make his boss look smarter. It's funny because it's true.
