Will Ferrell
Funny or Die was the big winner at Monday night's Webby Awards where it was honored as Webby Film and Person of the Year.
Accepting the award were co-founders Adam McKay and Chris Henchy with Will Ferrell joining via video. Together the group went way beyond the five-word acceptance speech limit with Ferrell adding a haiku.
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Jewel
TBS has ordered a pilot inspired by a Funny Or Die video starring Jewel, a network rep confirms.
"Undercover Karaoke," which has been viewed more than 3.3 million times, features the 36-year-old singer in a disguise as an everyday business woman blowing off steam at a karaoke bar. After belting some of Jewel's famous tunes to an unknowing crowd, she later...
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Big Lake
Turns out you can go home again—you just might not be welcome there. In the new scripted comedy Big Lake (premiering tonight at 10/9c on Comedy Central), Chris Gethard stars as Josh Franklin, a failed financial whiz kid who flees the big city for his Pennsylvania hometown. But Josh's folks aren't exactly thrilled to see him—especially since he lost their nest egg on failed investments.
"His parents outwardly hate him at this point—they take their aggression out on him, and deservedly so," says Gethard, an accomplished improv comic who landed the role after impressing exec producers Will Ferrell and Adam McKay on the set of Ferrell's new comedy The Other Guys...
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Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell
Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg's new action comedy The Other Guys took the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office, putting an end to Inception's three-week reign.
Watch clips from Other Guys
The film, directed and co-written by Adam McKay, took in ...
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Funny or Die founders Will Ferrell and Adam McKay by Eric Charbonneau/WireImage.com
Comedy website FunnyorDie.com is really bringing out the big guns to head up its new programming development deal with HBO. Twelve-year Saturday Night Live vet Andrew Steele will be joining the site as creative director, overseeing the unconventionally formatted content for the pay-cable network, as well as churning out the website's widely popular original videos ala "The Landlord" or "God Cop, Bad Baby."Funny or Die founders Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, who both worked with the SNL writer during their stints on the steadfast sketch-comedy series, told Variety that Steele was exactly who they were looking for to fill the position — especially since Ferrell finds him to be "one of the funniest people on the planet, not counting South America and parts of Russia." — Gina DiNunno
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Ace, Gary and their creator, Robert Smigel
Perhaps they are kowtowing to the liberal-media agenda or being spurred by the success of Brokeback Mountain. Whatever the case, NBC's Saturday Night Live is letting a couple of homosexual superheroes host the show this weekend. Known as "the Ambiguously Gay Duo," Ace and Gary (voiced by Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell) will take the
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Will Ferrell will do anything for a laugh — and that includes posing nude on the cover of TV Guide magazine (on sale tomorrow). But in his latest film, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, the former Saturday Night Live cut-up says he attempted to peel back the emotional layers to reveal the heartache hidden beneath his title character's pompous exterior. Seriously.
"Ron enjoys the mantle of being San Diego's No. 1 news guy," Ferrell says. "But he's a little sad when he gets home, opens that refrigerator door and there are just two beers and an empty Chinese-food carton — and [only] his dog waiting for him. He's slightly pathetic but he doesn't want anyone to know."
If it sounds like Ferrell has a good handle on Burgundy, it's probably because he co-wrote Anchorman with director Adam McKay. "This whole idea kind of came about when I was watching a documentary about news people in the '70s," the
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