"This next song is all about my love of hard-core, barely legal porno..."
I do not apologize for being a Will Farrell fan.
I also don't care what you think of the hilarious (but strangely divisive) Anchorman. I think it's probably his best film because it's his most ridiculous.
And for my money one of Farrell's best Saturday Night Live sketches was a "VH1 Storytellers" with Neil Diamond. (The clip may not be work-safe...may want to plug in your headphones.)
It worked because Farrell completely embraced the absurdity of the premise -- squeaky clean, square-as-they-come singer/songwriter Neil Diamond as a racist, drug addled wreck who can't remember his own songs and has an incredibly warped sense of his own importance. In fact, he made love to it.
I'd always wanted to see more of the character -- but in the end I thought maybe it was best they didn't beat it to death.
But Entertainment Weekly's Popwatch has posted an unaired clip of Farrell's Neil Diamond doing a duet with Christina Aguilera (Kate Hudson). Like a lot of failed SNL sketches it stretches the premise a bit far and Hudson is sort of heavy handed as Aguilera, but it's still funny.
What's your favorite Will Farrell moment? Harry Caray? James Lipton? "More Cowbell?"
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Anchorman was lame. Sad. Pathetic. Worse -- not funny. The best Will Farrell movie is Stranger Than Fiction, followed a close second by Old School.
Easy call.
Posted on July 23, 2007 1:17 PM
Haven't seen "Stranger Than Fiction" -- and though there were really funny moments in Old School, I thought it was sort of schizophrenic. It was like they wanted to do something strange and hilarious but then, in the last twenty minutes or so, there's this really lame, very conventional comedy ending grafted on.
Posted on July 23, 2007 1:50 PM