"RE-RELEASE: Will Ferrell”

(upbeat music) - Hey there, Will Arnet here. Welcome to SmartList, our podcast where Jason Bayman, Sean Hayes and I, each week one of us brings a guest that the other two don't know about. And this week is no exception. We get real into it. Most of the time, we just mess around with each other and then the guest has to be embarrassed. So let's get right to the podcast. (upbeat music) - Smart, wise, smart, smart, wise, smart, wise, smart. - Hi. - Hi, how are you? - Good good. Should we go around the room and just say our names and our roles? - Should introduce yourself? - Yeah, I'm Sean Hayes. - People have been listening to the podcast for a minute now. - Sorry, so we just skip that. - Same three idiots. - Okay. - In the role of Sean Hayes is Sean Hayes. - Should we switch parts today? - Oh, we could switch parts. - Ooh, yeah. - I'll play Will. - And what about that? - What about that? - I want to play. - You guys are assholes. You both want to play me? - Yeah. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - I'm going to take you a question. (laughing) - Fuck. (laughing) - Oh, God. - Okay. I'm going to be Jason. So, I was, you know, so, so, now listen. - You know, it's hard for me though. - So when I look back and I think about all the things that you've done, let's start at the beginning. Okay, so America was founded in 1492. - But what if I want to really be understood? No one understands me in my house. You know, I've got a wife and two girls. It's just, I start talking and they glaze over. So I really have to fight for attention. I get on this thing. I feel like I've got to stop describing my question, right? We've spoken about this before. And I just need to ask the question. - And then Sean, and then Sean's like a golden, Sean comes on and he's like, do you like whipped cream? (laughing) - The golden victory. - The golden victory for me. - What's your favorite color? - If Will was a dog, what kind of dog would Will be on this podcast? - Oh, God, that's a good question. Will's probably like an untrained German shepherd. (laughing) - Messy, matted. - Yeah, I was just drool coming out on the sides. - Bad hips, like the German shepherds get. - Yeah, this place, yeah. - Jesus, baby, baby would be like a full-size standard but shaved poodle. (laughing) So cold, yet fancy? (laughing) And very proud, walks very proud. - Very proud. (laughing) - Anyway, let's get to our guests, please. - Yeah, let's do it. - And I'm gonna tell you, you guys actually know this person but we're gonna find out stuff that we don't know about this person. - If it's my mom, a German trouble 'cause I haven't called her for a while. - Should I just say, if it's your mom, what? - Careful. - This would be such a-- - Careful. - No, I'm just gonna say it would be such a mitzvah. If it was your mom because we could really get into, there's so much stuff about you and we've known each other a lot. That I want to know. - You know whose mom is not gonna come on mine because she's dead. - So that's our first commercial break. We're gonna go to a florist commercial break right now. - Sean, by the way, I will say your mom is dead. But imagine if my surprise guest was your mom. (laughing) That would really, that would be more surprising than me being Pail. (laughing) - Pailer than me, my God. Guys, our guest today is from Irvine, California. His mom was a teacher and his father played sacks and keyboard for the righteous brothers. - Do we get a chance to guess at any point? - No. - Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. - No, don't guess. 'Cause he studied sports journalism at USC, but ultimately went on to join the groundlings and the rest is histories. Got like a million movies under his belt and I'm sure that's not the only thing. Ladies and gentlemen, William Farrell. - Oh my God. - Wow. - Jason. (laughing) - There's his head shot. - Jason. (laughing) - Hi, Jason. - Jason, answer the belly. - Jason, it's your mother. (laughing) - First of all, she's British. - Oh. - Okay. - Sorry. - But let me guess, and let me guess and that. Oh, what a great booking, Sean. Congratulations. - Guys, can I just, can I start by saying I'm so excited to be on the Gong Show podcast. All things you wanna know about the new Gong Show. And it is just, I mean, it's sweeping that country. Both countries, Canada and U.S. and. (laughing) - Aren't that taking fire? - It's unbelievable. Are you just drinking? Is that just medicine out of the bottle? That's what it looks like. Are you just. - That's a kombucha. I know that because my wife drinks those. - But it does look like a tonic. - Like a whole tonic. - Yeah, yeah, a whole tonic. Yeah, and I just, I drink it as a prophylactic. - Sure. - Yeah. - Well, Farrell, thank you so much for coming on our little show. - My pleasure. - And we're all obviously such gigantic fans of yours. And one question, you know, you're one of the rare people in this business. And I think I can speak on behalf of everybody that's, you know, it's really hard to find people like you. - Hold on one second. - Well, Farrell's got a phone call. - Yes. - Tight five, everybody. - Okay, that's a large pepperoni. - Right? - Uh-oh. - Do you want chicken fingers with that? - I thought he was ordering. He's taking orders. - He's taking orders. - Okay. - Can I get you a, oh. - All right, okay. All right, Todd. We'll be there in 35 minutes. - We asked for the address and then he knew the guy. So we didn't need the address. - Hey, hey, keep your landlines, folks. Keep your landlines. - It is pretty strong. - Look at that. - With the banking system collapse. - You're going to want to have a landline. - What I was going to say, William, was Farrell. Was, I always wanted to know what is that one thing or that one event or that one person that made you want to get in the business and pursue comedy? What was that? - Rock the bomb. - Correct. - What? - Before that. - Great answer. - Just like a week before that. - The one thing, the one person? - Yeah, was there like a show or a person or an event or something in your family or? - Oh, Jesus. This is supposed to be things you don't know. - You're coming, what are works? - Yeah. (laughing) - And we are losing light. We're losing light. - I said I wouldn't cry. You said you wouldn't try to get me to cry, Sean, but right out of the gate. - Here's the real answer to your question. - Yeah. - I enjoyed being funny as a child, but I was actually diametrically opposed to going into entertainment. Because I watched my father, the musician, go from job to job and be fired at the drop of a hat and I thought that's not, who would wanna do that? I'm gonna have a job where I carry a briefcase to work. - I can relate to that. I had to, some of the same fears myself, yet I still went into this non-maritocracy and fickle sort of industry. - You were early, you were early child. - Right, but you were young as well, but I mean, not a child, but you still had an opportunity to take a different path. Yet you didn't, you still, you couldn't resist the allure of the pancake makeup. - Yeah, so what about that, the floor lights? After seeing your dad. - Are there still floor lights? - Yep, there's scoop lights. - Yeah, it's scoop, scoop. - Yeah, it's scoop. - No, okay, listen Will, but you're seeing your dad do that over and over again and not like, you know, travel, not hold down, you know, secure kind of jump. So what, if that discouraged you, what encouraged you? - I just kind of slowly started incorporating the messing around with my friends, which I'm sure we all did. - Keep it clean. - Okay, yeah, yeah, okay, you're right. - Entertainment of my friend, that sounds weird. - Yeah. - The massage, no. - No. - No. - Tickle giggle. - Tickle giggle. You know, we love to have a good gang tickle giggle. - That's it, we got it, we're back on. - No, I just said, I, high school was got in a moment, even though I wasn't like a theater kid or anything. I found myself writing what were essentially skits. - Was there like a comedy person that you were like, "God, I wish I could do what that guy does," or? - Who did you think was funny when you were a teenager? - I kind of the typical. - Interesting that Will Arnett asks at once and gets a response. - Mm-hmm. - The pipes. - Yeah, it's the pipes, exactly. - I just got down to it. I didn't dress it up with a bunch of BSAs. I was a member of the Columbia House Record and Tape Club and one of the items. - Oh, you're being serious. - I'm being serious. For $1 plus postage and handling, which really comes out to about a buck '89, that's where they get you. - Yeah. - I got to choose 13. - Still see the. - It was supposed to be for a penny. You got 13 albums and it's not a penny. It's a buck '89, okay? - It's the hand. - Okay, man, we don't work there. - It's the posters and the shipping and handling. - Yeah. - Not to mention, if you get one record a month, if you don't send it back within 14 days, you're charged for it. - Yeah. - Is that how you still use Netflix? (laughing) - I'm doing it the original way. - Yeah, I never, I still get the discs. I got streaming. - I don't blame you. - Will drives by Ted Serrano's house and throws discs at his front door. Here's your fucking movies. (laughing) - I'm done with these. - Ted. (laughing) - One of my, one of my part was the cast album of "Saturday Night Live." - Okay, great. So you always aspired to be on the show that you were on. - I guess quietly, yes. Quietly, I did. - But that's, so Will, so you wanted to do that. - And hold on, I'm not done. - Yeah, that, Barnett. - I know. - Fuck. Will, can I talk to you privately real quick? - Yeah, yeah. No, no, no, Barnett, sorry. Listen, yeah, listen, Barnett, when the guest is responding to a question, especially when you catch her for Christ's sake. No, no, wait until there's silence, 'cause silence follows a completion of the fucking answer. Here we go. - Okay. - Steve Martin, Steve Martin. - Yep. - And then I was also a tonight show weirdo. I'd stay up and wait to see who the comedian was. If there was a comedian on that night, I'd watch if there wasn't, I'd turn it off. - Wow. - So I was kind of, that's how I, - So those are the guys, Steve Martin also, an idol of mine too is comedy-wise, it just thought, so dry and brilliant. But what was that moment? So you grew up in Orange County, you go to USC, and then you go to Groundlings. What is that gap between, I never knew this. Like from when you finished USC to Groundlings, what was that gap? Like how did you, - So I graduate USC with a degree in sports journalism. So in my mind's eye, I'm gonna go work on ESPN. You know, I'm gonna be a sportscaster and, oh, that would have been great. - I know, I blew it and missed it. - In fact, Craig Kilborn brings that up to me every day. - Do you remember Craig Kilborn? - Sure do. Do you have a deal in ongoing friendship with Craig Kilborn? - I haven't seen him in probably 15 years. No. - Well, he's on next. - Come on on out, Craig. You'll see him in the green room on your way out. - Come on out, Craig. - If you were quarantining with Craig Kilborn, that would be it for me. - That would be the greatest. - So you finish. - So yeah, so I have this, I finish. And then I start doing my, I mean, there wasn't really a job placement program coming out of college. And so you kinda have to figure out a way. I found like a local Orange County Cable Access News Station. I started working at and I was trying to put together a tape, which I wish we could cut to that. - And now that. - Oh, I find it. - In which, yeah, I did sort of do some field reporting and you would anchor the news. You'd also work the camera, you would do everything. And there was a light bulb moment in that, even though it was this small, rinky, dink, local cable, access, they had legitimate press credentials to all the major sports teams in LA. And at that time, the Rams, the LA Rams, football team were playing down at Anaheim Stadium. And the editor of the show, which was actually a teacher of the class, it was actually run out of a junior college. He said, hey, we need someone to go interview John Robinson, the head coach of the Rams at the stadium after this weekend's game. And 40 hands shot up, except for mine. (laughing) - But you knew him from SC, yeah? - No, no, I'd never met him, but the point was here, I'm surrounded by these hungry people who were like, I need that interview on my reel. And my first thought was like, I'm gonna have to check out a camera. - Oh, parking. - I gotta ask someone, yeah, parking, I gotta pay for it. I gotta ask one of my classmates that they'll run sound for me. - Yeah, and you don't have a lot of money left over from that subscription to all those. - From Columbia? - Yeah, no, I'm in debt from Columbia House Records and T. (laughing) He's in the middle of a major lawsuit against Columbia. - We are on the five yard line, guys, and please have me on next when we finally come to terms. But I'm giving all the money to charity, but God, we're gonna hammer 'em. But I had no, I had no, I said, this is not a good sign. I should be leaping out of my chair to go and actually get a legit interview with a head football coach from the NFL on my reel so that I can get hired at a station in Yuma, Arizona. And I said, if I don't really have that drive, then this other thing that's kind of still non-away at me is I should really be looking into this comedy thing. So that's when I signed up for my first class at the groundlings. - Really? - Yeah. - I'm not trying to prod you into doing it. How soon after that did you kind of braid the two things by working on your Harry Carey? - Oh, that was, yeah, that was kind of midway that was a couple of years later during the baseball strike and-- - Just kills me. - Oh, that was a character you did at groundlings? - Yeah, yeah, there was, it was the baseball strike and I used to, I had a job, the art auction house that my then friend, now wife Vivica used to work at. I was the appraisal coordinator at the auction house, which was basically, I answered the phones and coordinated appraisals and typed up appraisals and was threatened to be fired on several occasions. But I would live close enough home to drive home for lunch and I would turn the Cubs games on during the day. And I had never heard of Harry Carey and I was like, who is this guy? - Yeah, I grew up in Chicago so he was part of our lives. - A fixture, right? And so I would be listening and the thing that struck me was listening to a game and listening to this announcer say on syndicated national television. If that balls a strike, I'm a Chinaman and I'm done. (laughing) And I literally did like a spit take and was like, "Did he just say Chinaman?" - Wait, wait, wait, this is like a guy who's paid to do this? He's like, and so I, not, I just thought, no, this has got to be a sketch somehow. And they, so I somehow, even though it was a Southern California audience, I wrote a sketch where it was during the baseball strike. So Harry Carey didn't have games to announce and he would, he had somehow gotten involved in a play reading and in a local theater and it was this melodramatic play and they were just sitting around, you know, let's take it from Act One and it was, you know, Perry had lines like, "God damn it, Carol! (laughing) Why don't you ever look at me, would we make love?" (laughing) And by the end of the sketch, the audience was like doubling over and laughter even though they had no idea that Harry Carey was a real person. - Oh, right. - This is something that's transcending, you know. - Yeah. - By the way, I've never known that. Of course, you do the Harry Carey character so many times, but the idea of him doing something, it was always in the baseball context, but seeing him doing something that's completely out of focus. - Oh yeah, and we had all these other actors, we had a really good troop and everyone was just playing it perfectly straight and like, this one actress Maggie Barrett was literally getting herself to cry while she read it and it was just, you're tears made nothing to me. (laughing) This bear just been broken since the day we crossed the altar. - You know, and always kind of drunk, right? - Yeah, oh yeah, and then. - And quaking a little. - And then my friend Roy was the director like, "Okay, let's stop there, Harry, I don't know if I'm feeling, you know, just giving the cliche acting notes." And like, Harry, I really wanna feel it from you this time and you're speaking to no one, but Carol right now in the scene, okay? Let's take it again and just the starting and stopping of that. - Did you do Harry when you did your SNL audition? - I did, which was, in fact, I tried to do an augmented version of that and it was so surreal because, you know, you're just in a void. You're in 8-H in the studio there. - God, you must've been so nervous. I wouldn't have just a mess. - I just remember listening, waiting in the way, so you guys all know that set up there, waiting by the page desk outside the doors of the studio and hearing the person ahead of you go through their audition while you're on deck. And just looking at all the famous pictures of everyone who had just hosted and being in the spot, and the place that you dreamed of being and now you're there. - Walking out to a studio that's pitch black, except for a spotlight and a camera and a boom operator and Lauren sitting in the shadows and then you just have to do comedy. - Or standing in a void, possibly. So yeah, that was very surreal. I tried doing it, I don't know. - Well, Carol, I also wanna know, have you ever desired to do anything? I know you wanna be a sports announcer, right, a sportscaster. But if you weren't doing the thing that you're doing, not quarantine. but entertainment business, what would you be doing? If you had to pick a blue collar job, you had to pick, what would it be? - Oh, blue collar, 'cause I was gonna say, I've always wanted to do finance. (laughing) - I just thought it seems so interesting to you. - I love, I love finance. (laughing) I love figuring out like a second more, you know. - Sure. - I can't even do the bit, 'cause I don't even know the terms. (laughing) - Right, re-fi. - Re-fi? - Low. - Wild comes alive. When you mention private equity, it's like. - Like what? Who said? (laughing) - Are you? - So Prime, is that still a thing? I actually could be a, I could actually be a post person to be quite honest. - To deliver the mail. - Because I like the idea of a route and you get to have some contact with people and the idea of finishing a task every day. - Would you be on foot armed with the dog spray or would you be in the buggy? - I would go, I would go foot with the trolley. I pushed the trolley. - Nice. - Yeah. - Those are sneaky tricky, those three wheels thing. They will go over on you. - I'm sure they, yeah, in a high wind. - Yeah, or if you don't take the letters out, you don't go in a clockwise or counterclockwise rotation. If you take too many out of the left side, it's gonna tip over on the right and vice versa. - Did you used to do it? - Hey, how often did you look out the window masturbating at the postman a lot or a little? - Only in the summer months when they wear the shorts. - Look at that curve. - There's David. There's David. David, our postman's here. - Yeah. - David is gonna topple. David is gonna topple. - I'll get the mail. - Hey guys, David's here. Yes, what? Wait. - Cut to the reverses. - Nobody's there. Nobody's there. - He's alone. Hey, Bateman, quick question. 'Cause we mentioned before you grew up in Showbiz. We all know that we've seen the great things and people who are listening can right now Google up like Little House in the Prairie and see cute little Jason Bateman. - Yeah, mm-hmm. Did you ever have a real, did you ever have like an outside show business job? Have you ever had like a, - I didn't and I genuinely hate that. I'd love to have had a paper route, similar to Dave's route with his three wheeler. - And you were working all the time as a kid. - I started at 10, yeah. So there was no chance too. But I've always legitimately fantasized about waiting tables or bartending. There's something about working for a tip, which is sort of like the same thing as I want them to like me. I want this table, might need something different than that table, just sort of like being able to morph into whatever they need me to be. - I have, I do, I will say this, all my quote unquote civilian jobs, I've been pretty terrible at. So. - Because you didn't like authority or you were just disinterest. - No, like slow, yeah, just like slow on the uptake. I had a lot of patient managers and supervisors who. - Did you have a lot of jobs, like you have weird jobs in high school that you did? - I never, I was doing sports all the time. So I had, you know, I had like the, I worked as a bank teller. I was a valet parker of cars. And. - How are you taking direction? - Well, you know, bank teller, you know, there's certain protocols and procedures you have to follow and this and that. And it just took me a while. I mean, the fact that I was handling numbers and money was just, I was like. - Euphoric. - What am I doing here? - Because of the finance last time. - Well, yeah, I mean, that led to my love finance. But I once had a regular customer stop me in the middle of a transaction and say, can you call your manager over? And I said, sure. And I brought her over and he's and in front of me, he said, this guy is your worst teller. Okay. And I just want you to know this. And he didn't a very calm way. And he was like, look, look at him right now. He's sweating. And I literally was. So sweating. He's like, he's terrible. He takes forever. He and and the manager to your defense was like, please, that's not true. And I was like, no, he's kind of right. And I just want you know, like I hate when I have to go to his window. And then he just walked away. And she was like, I'm sorry about that. I was like, you know what? I can't really argue with him. There's a, I'm not that great a teller. - This was counting bills, counting out cash or. - You know, everything, caching a chat. Yeah, do it all. So. - That guy did you a favor in the long run, right? In a lot of ways, sounds like you need to pen someone a letter. - Well, every time I go, every time I put the pancake makeup on, and I picture that guy. And I, I say, who's laughing now? - So you still do all your own makeup? - I insist on it. It's crazy. - Well, there's allergies, especially in the, you know, post-COVID-19 world we're all about to step into. I will definitely be doing all my own makeup. - So, Will Ferrell, you are one of the funniest people on the planet, if not the funniest person on the planet. And everybody kind of, do you get sick of like, 'cause now you're a parent and you have to show up to like school things and parent things for your kids? Do people expect that from you all the time and what is your reaction? - There is, there is a certain level of underwhelment. Is that a word? - Sure. - Yeah. - It is no. Well, I can tell there are a lot of let down people. - Continually. - But Will, I will say this, you know, Will, I don't even remember this a couple of years ago. Maybe last year we were having dinner. - Yeah. - I was having dinner with with Richter and Pete Giles and you and Viv came in from a school event. - Yeah. - And with a couple other parents. And Will was writing his name, they're all wearing name tags and Will says hello, my name is Will on the thing, which is great. And that's such a testament to what a great guy you are. And he's like, yeah, man, I'm not here. I'm just here because my kids are at school here and I'm interested in my kids and their lives and their school. - But I'm sure you guys face the same thing. I find more that there are some parents who literally won't say hi because they go so far the other way. I don't want to bother them. So then you're like, hey, how you doing? And they walk right by and they're like, gosh, what? Did I say something wrong? Yeah, yeah. - And then do you feel on the opposite of that? Do you feel that you have to sometimes lead with sort of a vibe that is less than sort of friendly or less than sort of solicitous of conversation because you're afraid that if you seem too friendly, they're really gonna lean in. And like, how do you kind of say? - No, I would say that, at least in the school setting, most everyone is relatively normal. I would say that posture, that's my game face for when I'm on a commercial flight. - Right. - Just just sour, don't come near me, I will rip your head off. - I will, not here, not here for fun and game. (laughing) - Let's get to play him. - I mask and headphones. - Will, is there anything that you haven't done that you wanna do? - Either a role that you wanna play or. - Nope. - Talk to you later. - Told you, he's out of sight. - How do I turn this camera off? How do I get out of here? How do I? - He did it, I did it. - How do I? (laughing) - No, there isn't because everybody thinks you can do anything. - I don't know. But how do you, you can't give that answer without saying like a jackass. - Right, what would you do if like, let's say Ridley Scott came to you and he wanted to do King Lear and he just thought he'd see something in you that would just be like an incredibly like, it's off brand and studios excited and all of those terms and all of that stuff and the money's just like you've never, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Does your douche meter go off and say, even though you could do it? Do you feel like the audience will never accept it? - Yeah, I think that would be a, that would be a tough one to try to convince yourself that you could pull that one off. - Having said that, you have, you have King Lear. (laughing) - Are you about to, no. Jason, are you doing it? - No, but you have, but what about, what an all sincerity? I think you've taken what you do and you've pushed it into so many realistic, dramatic melancholy things that truly nobody else could do, just like no one else could do what you do in comedy. I really think it's admirable how you are so aware of how you come across, what sort of your goal posts are and what you're asking the audience to accept you as, I think, is that's a lot of discipline. - I appreciate that, but yeah, I mean, it's fun to do that other stuff, but there are times where I am always, on those sets of more serious things going, this is, this is very hard. (laughing) And this is hard to not look like you're trying to be the actor who everyone needs to take serious. So it's a drama phase. - Yeah, it's so, it's so tough. - Which is so funny because doing what you do, specifically what you do is so hard and when I say not many people, like nobody could do it. And it's so, working out, you mean? - Yeah, just-- - The way we work out. - Well, just lads. you do arms and legs. Yeah. Nobody does legs like you. And you've always said that. And nobody had a post. You always post them too. Not a lot of people know that will train Reggie Bush when I mean, true. I see. I'm a fairly, I'm a fairly modest person. I think you guys, I think that comes across here. But I will not hold back. No one does legs the way I do. You know? I mean, leg days of holiday in the Pharrell Household. Leg day is, yeah, it's just, now here's the other thing. Will Pharrell, you know, you're, you're also known not only as the funniest person in the world, but one of the kindest people and everybody in this business always just raves about what a great human being you are. That's the hard part. I can't attest to that because that's what they pay you for. Yeah, that's the part they pay you for. Very, very sweet. And but so that said, I think the thing I always wanted to know what really pisses you off. Yeah, here we go. This is where we start the interview. He's all come bootch it up. Now do you mean we just want names? We just want names. Yeah, when's the last time you just screamed your head off and let somebody had it? Yeah, because I can't picture you angry. No, I don't, I don't get. I'm trying to think of the lab. I mean, I have screamed before. I have screamed in a professional manner or like in life or like at home or like with and people and human beings. What pisses you off? I mean, yeah, home, it's, you know, the typical frustrations you have with your children. And for some reason, I'm always checking myself because I'm holding them to some standard that I don't think I was held to. Like I was, I mean, I did well in school, but I still had, you know, my room was a mess and I've I never emptied the dishwasher and but for some reason, I'm just like, you guys. Yeah, you it's not that hard. We're asking you to empty the trash. See, if I was your child, I would laugh at that and put the liner back in. Put the liner back in the trash can. You're not done to step process. Right. But that for some reason, that I get crazy. And then I'm like, who is this person? Yeah. But I was going to say about holding them to that standard. I, you know, during these weird times, we had the other day, Archie or 11-year-old was on his Zoom class. Yeah. And it turned out he was, he had his camera off and on the side, he was on his iPad playing a video game. So I said to Amy, I said to my ex, I was like, I was like, what are we, he's on the thing and blah, blah, blah. And as I was saying to her, like, he's on the, he's on the Zoom class, but he's on pause and he's playing a video game beat, beat, beat, beat. I was looking at her and I go, which I probably would have done if given the chance and you probably would have two and she's like, yeah, totally. Yeah, exactly. It was crazy. I don't, I don't know why, yeah, I don't know why I go there, but can I, I have one other thing. I don't on in a work experience, kind of bug-a-boo. Yeah. I don't love the unit publicist experience on a set. Right. And for those listeners who are wondering, there's a lot of times on a production, there's a publicist assigned from the studio and this and that. And they're always playing the game of like, so-and-so's willing to do it if you are and then, right, gilting you. Yeah. Yeah, and they do, they do these wide circles, right? They just do little drive buys everyone so well to gauge whether you're in a good mood or a bad mood to just want to kind of run something by you. And, and I'm always, I'm always amazed that we want to have 20 journalists visit the set and do a three-hour interview why you guys are filming. And I'm always like, but wait, isn't the movie the first priority? And I'm always, I'm always like, absolutely, if we have time. Okay, but when do you think it'll be a good time? You'll have to check with the first AD. Okay, but is there a window? I have no idea. So you're up for it? Yes. If we have time. Okay. Great. So you've signed off. If we have time. Right. And then I love those days when there's no time. You just walk by and you go, I'm sorry. There was no time. Well, what was the thing? I remember you were telling me once about kind of felt like the same thing. Somebody sets you, hey, we're going to do a golf tournament. Tiger Woods is going to come if you're in and like you felt like some of them, somebody had told Tiger that you were going to play. And it was like, yes, yes. Somehow my dad, my dad became a little lad. My dad somehow became a middleman. He was asking me. He had some friend of his down in Newport Beach who came to listen to him play music was like, hey, so he's talked to Tiger Woods and Tiger Woods is in for it. If you and Tiger Woods play golf together and they'll raise a bunch of money for charity for another two some. So you're a force them together and these two whoever you know that goes to the highest bidder to play golf with Will Ferrell and Tiger Woods. And that he's already reached out to Tiger. And it's good to go. And I was like, well, dad, who is this friend? And how well do you know him? And he seems like a good guy. And I go, well, you know, a lot of times they'll ask one party before they ask the other. And so maybe I'll check, let me do some research. And for some way, I had some way to check to see if the Tiger Camp had ever heard of this special charity golf doctor, Dr. Miller got involved. Exactly. And it turns out, of course, Tiger, I said, dad, guess what? Your buddy, Tiger Woods, apparently his team has never heard anything of this. And your friends lying to you. And he was like, how, how could that be? And I said, I know, that's the way the world sometimes works. What kind of music, what kind of music does he play? He's, he's like a old-time rock and roll. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Guitarist, no, he's piano, sax, Hammond B3 organ. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Let's hear it from the Hammond B3. That's amazing. But yeah, that was my Tiger Woods story. I just, I always loved that idea, though. I've thought about that so many times. The idea of like so many when they go like, hey, we want you to do this thing and so and so and so are doing it. And I always think back to that story of like, and I'll go, Ellen, why don't you make sure that so and so. And so it's, that's how I found myself on an island with Maria Osman and Kurt Cameron, you know. Oh boy. I got asked to play in another charity golf tournament by a friend assuming that I was going to play with the person I know. Right. Only to show up and be placed with four strangers. And these guys were like in it to win it. They're like hey, hope you're pretty good. Did you end up playing? But yeah, I had to play this entire 18 holes with these four guys. And they wanted to show you how good they were, right? 100%. They're like, we hope you're good because we win this thing every year. And you better be funny. And you're, but well, and it was it was early SNL days. So they kind of had heard of me. Maybe not. And they're like, is that show still on the air? I didn't know people watched it. That's sweet. He sounds sweet. And then I literally, we, we're supposed to be a banquet afterwards. And I said, guys, I'm gonna go put my clubs in my car and I'll meet you back inside this room. Just drove home. And did we win? Yes, we won. Even despite it. Did you really? You didn't stick around for the trophy? I didn't stick around. That's strong. Yeah. So as we say goodbye to you in this in this pandemic day, what, what, what do you do the rest of the day? Well, let's see. It's three in the afternoon. I'm going to go, I might go, I might go walk our dogs peanut and Cosmo, right? So that's with a mask. They'll be with a mask. I'm going to do a sweep through the house to find where all the devices have been hidden because these kids are liars and thieves. And so I'll do a sweep. And then I've been, we'll start talking about, we start talking about what we're making for dinner at around noon every day. So we'll have to start. You got to build a day around that. And then it's sleep by eight. Yeah. Jason, have you done or will or Sean? Well, not to your kids, but maybe to Scotty. Have you ever done a thing where you go? You're so had it with the devices. I've threatened during this pandemic a minimum hundred times to throw the devices in the pool. Yes. I said, this iPad is going in the bottom of the pool. If I see it on one more time. Yeah. But then you quickly realize all that means it's more work for you. Yeah. Yeah. True. I did throw my, my 13 year old, uh, uh, Matias's phone out the window. You did drive all of us driving. But it was a real slow crawl. And I, I picked a target area where I knew we could find it later. And I just chucked it out the window and hit this bush. And he literally was like, what is wrong with you? And it was so shocked that I actually did it. And typical true to form, we pulled over. He's like, I can't believe it. The person at tears went back to look for the phone. He's like, I can't find it. I can't find it. I walked right up to the bush. I'm like, here it is. It's right here. And so that was a great little shot across the bow. - What you're capable of, right? - Don't mess. - What I'm capable of, but it hasn't been much of a deterrent. - Yeah. - So. - Well, Will Ferrell, thank you for being here with us. We love you. We are a comedy here. - Thanks you guys so much for- - I can't thank you enough. It was very, very nice of you. - Well, willy. - Bye, guys. - Love you, buddy. - Bye, Will. - Thank you. Guys, that was so fun. How awesome is he? - He literally is one of my favorite people in the whole world. And I was a little star-struck there for the first few minutes, but God, he puts you at ease. Doesn't he? What a nice guy. I was like, when I came on, or when he was on- - No, sorry. - Arnet. - Oh. - When Arnet was, yeah. - Sure. - Good for you, dude. Good for you, dude. I'm just like, I'm a regular guy. You, I'm very approachable. Ferrell is the best. Is any, I had the honor and pleasure and good fortune to work on a couple of things with him. And they were some of them, my fondest memories, because most of the time, we just screwed around. - And it's one of those guys who, you go, oh, no wonder you're a superstar, because everybody wants to work with you because you're one of the nicest people in the business, and incredibly talented, right? - Yeah. He's got, he's got that, as you know, you guys know. He's got that, sort of that natural timing that you cannot learn. You just have it, or you don't. And he has got it in spades, in ways that are-- - Yeah. - He's got that thing that makes him, he's so surprising, too. - Yeah. - He just surprises you with stuff. It's just awesome. - Is there anything you guys learned about him that you didn't know? - Certainly about his dad. - Yeah, isn't that interesting? - And all the sports journalism stuff that he was excited about early on. - Right? - It's crazy. I've met his dad a few times, and I guess I didn't really realize this dad was a musician. I don't know how. - For the righteous brothers. I mean, that's crazy. - Yeah. - I did not know he was on Saturday Night Live. - Oh, yeah. - That was-- - You didn't know that. - Wow. - Yeah. - Mine. - No, you got to go back and look at some of those. - But you were, you hosted a couple times while he was on the show. - Yeah, Sean. - I don't look behind me. I don't look behind me. I just look forward. - No, okay, what? - So. - I don't know how that's applicable in this case. - Sean, I'm very proud of you, that you got Will Ferrell to say yes. You have any sort of incriminating photos or does he owe you money or how did you do that? - I have a couple. No, I don't have anything. I can't think of anything. Okay. - All right, guys. - Love you guys. - I love you. - And you guys, I just want to say, - Bye. - Bye. - Yeah. - Smart. (upbeat music)