20 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About Will Ferrell
Featured 03/29/2015
He is hilarious on and off screen!
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1. His father, Roy Lee Ferrell Jr., was a keyboardist and saxophonist for The Righteous Brothers.
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2. While attending University High School in Irvine, California, Ferrell used to make the daily morning announcements in disguised voices.
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3. Ferrell based his iconic Ron Burgundy character on Philadelphia and Detroit news anchor Mort Crim.
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4. He and his wife ran the Boston Marathon in April, 2003. Ferrell's official time was 4 hours, 2 minutes, and 29 seconds.
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5. He beat out future co-star Steve Carell for a spot on "Saturday Night Live" back in 1995.
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6. While in high school, he was the varsity football kicker, member of the soccer team, and captain of the basketball team.
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7. After graduating from the University of Southern California, he began working as a hotel valet, but on the second day of work, he drove a van under a low-hanging beam and tore the luggage rack off.
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8. While at USC, he would show up in his friends' classes dressed in a janitor's outfit.
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9. In 2006, Ferrell became the first "SNL" member to receive a Golden Globe nomination (on behalf of his performance in "The Producers").
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10. Ferrell thinks of himself as just another guy, and his love of comedy makes him industrious. He's said, "I'm a lazy person who found this thing that I love... Without it, I'm just another guy."
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11. He has three sons: Magnus, Mattias and Bob.
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12. He was the highest paid cast member of "SNL" ever in 2001 with a salary of $350,000. Just a few years later, Ferrell was making upwards of $20 million per movie.
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13. In the final bowling match scene of "Kingpin" (2006) between Bill Murray and Woody Harrelson, someone in the crowd shouts, "Ernie, you're the man!" Turns out that someone was Will Ferrell.
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14. Ferrell posed with "Talladega Nights" co-star Leslie Bibb on the cover of "Stuff Magazine" for its August 2006 issue.
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15. While members of the comedy troupe The Groundlings, Ferrell and Chris Kattan created the characters of the Butabi Brothers.
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16. Ferrell appeared in the Beastie Boys music video "Make Some Noise" (2011). He was featured playing a cowbell, paying tribute to his Blue Oyster Cult "SNL" sketch.
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17. His "SNL" tenure began in 1995 and ran to 2002, when he made the transition to films full-time. He has since returned to the late-night show twice as a host.
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18. In 2010, Ferrell made a relief pitching appearance for the Houston Astros Triple-A affiliate, the Round Rock Express.
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19. In 2007, Ferrell was named the worst celebrity autographer by "Autograph" magazine. The magazine state that he'll taunt fans who ask for his autograph.
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20. He once attended Comicon dressed as an alien from a popular 1950s B-movie. No one recognised him for the whole day.
His father, Roy Lee Ferrell Jr., was a keyboardist and saxophonist for The Righteous Brothers.
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