Will Ferrell
Comedy icon, SNL legend, and star of Downhill, who apparently keeps prosthetic testicles from Step Brothers in a trophy case.
Appeared on: Harland Highway Podcast · New Heights · Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade · Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend · Hot Ones
Circuit updated March 24, 2026
Will Ferrell's throughline across every appearance is the same cheerful confession: he keeps committing to things before he fully understands what they are, and it keeps working out anyway. He forgot Elf would matter, he sold Talladega Nights in two seconds by chasing a trend, he signed onto Hot Ones with an active ulcer, and he once apparently took gambling advice about mud from a stranger who cost him thirty grand. The self-contradiction worth flagging is how he frames his SNL debut on New Heights: he performs the story as breezy, even proud, that Lorne Michaels refused to give him a compliment, but the quote itself ('it's a young man's game') is quietly brutal, and Ferrell's insistence that he's 'fine with both' failures feels less like peace and more like a very well-rehearsed bit. What makes the circuit read interesting is that Ferrell's whole persona, the guy who runs in a hamster wheel fifty feet up and doesn't look at the camera, turns out to be his actual operating philosophy, not a character. The joke is always that the stunt is real.
- Will Ferrell Didn't Know He Wrote Elf, and Other Things Harland Williams Told Him
“had literally no idea that it would be like one of the top thousandth movie” 49:35
- Will Ferrell Drafted Ron Burgundy as QB and Bombed His SNL Debut. He's Fine With Both.
“I thought he was going to give me the you know attab boy like like you know you were no you were great you were wonderful he was like no it's a young man's game.” 23:28
- Will Ferrell says Lorne Michaels told him to leave SNL only after he started to dip
“So I understand you're thinking about leaving. And I would just suggest this. You're at a You're at a high point right now. But you want to start just to begin to dip. And then you should leave.” 44:50
- Will Ferrell Runs a Hamster Wheel 50 Feet in the Air and Still Had to Sing
“the singer didn't look back the the they even got a tight shot of the guy running in the hamster wheel he just kept running he wouldn't even look at the camera” 7:19
- Will Ferrell Thought the Last Dab Was Just Ceremonial. It Was Not.
“it was going to be like a movie about newsmen meets like the movie alive where they have to survive in the mountains yeah and it was all about trying to survive and get down the mountain while being stalked by chimpanzees with chinese throwing stars” 13:58
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“I remember thinking gosh this is so hard to get off the ground we should maybe pick a topic that everyone's talking about and at that time NASCAR was at its height and I like for instance oh gosh what what if I'm just me as a NASCAR driver and yeah and we pitch we sold that in like two seconds.”
Will Ferrell · New Heights -
“it was going to be like a movie about newsmen meets like the movie alive where they have to survive in the mountains yeah and it was all about trying to survive and get down the mountain while being stalked by chimpanzees with chinese throwing stars”
Will Ferrell · Hot Ones -
“So I understand you're thinking about leaving. And I would just suggest this. You're at a You're at a high point right now. But you want to start just to begin to dip. And then you should leave.”
Will Ferrell · Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade -
“You lost me 30 grand. I'm like, what? I go, what do you mean? He's like, I bet on Michigan to win in the second half. I'm like, what are you talking about? You said they were good in the mud.”
Will Ferrell · Harland Highway Podcast -
“he is like one of those people who's kind of a you know like a perfect human being like an o you know the ultimate dinner party guests uh so gracious and kind and humorous stories”
Will Ferrell · Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend -
“I thought he was going to give me the you know attab boy like like you know you were no you were great you were wonderful he was like no it's a young man's game.”
Will Ferrell · New Heights
Will Ferrell Didn't Know He Wrote Elf, and Other Things Harland Williams Told Him
The Harland Highway podcast reunites two Superstar co-stars, produces a fake ancestry reveal, and somehow ends with a cappella cowbell.
Will Ferrell Drafted Ron Burgundy as QB and Bombed His SNL Debut. He's Fine With Both.
The Anchorman star visits New Heights to talk hockey stunts, getting rejected twenty times on Anchorman, and why Lorne Michaels is constitutionally incapable of a compliment.
Will Ferrell says Lorne Michaels told him to leave SNL only after he started to dip
Ferrell’s exit advice from Michaels sounds insane until you remember the next three movies were Old School, Elf, and Anchorman.
Will Ferrell Runs a Hamster Wheel 50 Feet in the Air and Still Had to Sing
A quarantine-era Conan interview that doubles as proof Will Ferrell genuinely cannot stop performing, even when strapped inside a steel contraption above a film set.
Will Ferrell Thought the Last Dab Was Just Ceremonial. It Was Not.
The comedy legend shows up without Julia Louis-Dreyfus, with an active ulcer, and still eats every wing.