"RE-RELEASE: Will Ferrell”

- Hey there, Will Arnett here.

Welcome to SmartLists, our podcast where Jason Babin, 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. Smart. (upbeat music) - Hi, hi, how are you? Good, good.

Should we go around the room and just save our names and our roles? 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. - Shall we switch parts today?

- Oh, we can switch parts.

- Ooh, yeah. - I'll play Will. - What about Will? - What about Will? - I want to play Will.

- You guys are assholes. You both want to play me. (singing in foreign language) - You did me, did, did, did you look less good? - Yeah, I did, did you look less good?

Think of what they keep. (laughing) - Fuck. (laughing) - Oh, God.

- Okay, I'm gonna be Jason. So I was, you know, so, now listen. - 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. - 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

that just, I start talking, they glaze over. So I really have to fight for attention. - I get on this thing, I feel like I've got, I can't, 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 out and he's like, "Do you like whipped cream?" (laughing)

(laughing) - The golden preachery. (laughing) - Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy. - What's the 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 is probably like an untrained German shepherd. (laughing)

- Messy, matted. - Yeah, it's just drool coming out on the sides.

“- Bad hips, like the German shepherd's get.”

- Yeah, dysplasia. - Jesus, baby, baby'd be like a full-sized standard but shaved poodle. (laughing) - So, cold, yet fancy?

(laughing) - And very proud, walks very proud. - I'm proud. (laughing) - Or, 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 diamond truffle '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 midsummer. If it was your mom because you could really get into there's so much stuff about you and we've known each other about that I wanted to know.

- You know whose mom is not gonna come on mine because she's dead. (laughing) - 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 pale.

- Our paleer 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. - Wait, 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 Ferrell. - Oh my God. - Jason. - Yeah, there's his headshot.

(laughing) - Jason. (laughing) - Hi, Jason. - Jason, answer the bellie.

- Jason, into your mother. (laughing) - First of all, she's British. - Oh, okay, sorry. - But let me guess, let me guess,

and let me guess, and that, 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 want to know about the new gong show

and it is just, I mean, it's sweeping the country. Both countries, Canada and you guys. And, aren't that taking fire?

Are you just drinking, is that just medicine out of the bottle?

“That's what it looks like, for instance.”

- That's a kombucha, I know that because my wife drinks hells. - But it does look like a tonic for the whole day. - Yeah, it's a whole tonic. - Yeah, and I just drink it as a prophylactic.

- Sure, yeah. - Well, Farrell, thank you so much for coming on our little show. - I 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 really hard to find people like you. - Well, I'm one sitting. - Well, Farrell's got a phone call. - Yep.

- 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. - Okay. - Can I get you a-- - Oh.

- All right, okay.

“All right, time, we'll be there in 35 minutes.”

- We asked for the address, and then he knew the guys so we didn't need the address. - Hey, hey, keep your landlines, folks. - It is pretty strong, that little thing. - We're making system collapse.

- You're going to want to have a landline. - What I was going to say, William, was Farrell. - Was, yes.

- 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? - Correct.

- What? - But before that, before that. - Great answer. - Just like a week before that. - Oh, they won the one thing, the one person?

- Yeah, was there like a shell or a person or an event or something in your family or-- - Oh, Jesus. - This is supposed to be things you don't know. - Here come the water works.

- Yeah. - 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, 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-meritocracy 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 I mean, you still had a, you 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, though?

- The floor lights. - After seeing your dad. - Are there still floor lights? - Yep, there's good, there's good lights. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

- Yeah, it's good. - Okay, listen, well, but you've seen your dad do that over and over again and not like, you know, travel not hold down, you know, a secure kind of job.

“So what, if that discouraged you, what encouraged you?”

- I just kind of slowly started incorporating the, the messing around with my friends, which I'm sure we all did. - Keep it clean. - Okay, yep. - Yeah, okay, you're right.

- Entertainment of my friend, ooh, that sounds weird. - Yeah. - The massage, no? - No. - No.

- Tickle, giggle. - Tickle, giggle. - You know, we love to have a good, game, tickle, wiggle. - That's it, we got it, we're back on.

- No, I just said, I, high school was got in the moment, even though I wasn't like a theater kid or anything, and I found myself writing what we're essentially skits. - But it was, there are like a comedy person that you were like, "I wish I could do with that guy, does."

- Who did you think was funny when you were a teenager? - I, I kind of the, typical. - Interesting that will aren't asked at once and gets a response, 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. (laughing) - I, 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 one dollar 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 seething. - It was supposed to be for a penny, you got 13 albums, and it's not a penny, it's about $89, okay? - It's the handling, it's expensive. - Man, we don't work there.

- It's the posters and the shipping and handling.

- 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? - I'm doing it the original way.

- Yeah, I never, I still get the discs.

- I'm not streaming, yeah. - Will drives by Ted Cerano's house and throws discs at his front door. Here's your fucking movies. (laughing)

- I'm done with these. - Ted! One of my, one of my, one of my, was the cast album of Cerano's life and so on. - Okay, great, so you'll always aspire

to do beyond the show that you're on. - I guess quietly, yes, quietly, I could do it. - But that's, so will, so you wanted to do it. - And hold on, I'm not done. - Yeah, that's not my net.

- I know. - Fuck. - Will, can I talk to you privately real quick? - Yeah, yeah. - No, no, aren't that, sorry, listen.

- Yeah, listen, aren't that one. The guest is responding to a question. - I actually want to, you kind of are afraid to say,

“no, kind of, no, wait, that's what they're saying.”

- That's what they're saying. - '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 with comedy-wise. They 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? 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, in missed, Craig Kilburn brings that up to me every day.

- Do you remember Craig Kilburn? - Sure, do you have a deal, and I'm going for friendship with Craig Kilburn? - I haven't seen him in, probably, 15 years, no. - Well, he's on next.

- Come on, I'm not next. - Come on out, Craig. - You'll see him at the Grandroom on your way out. - Come on out, Craig. - If you were quarantining with Craig Kilburn,

that would be it for me. - Oh, it would be great, it would be the greatest. So, you finish? - So, yeah, so I finished, and then I start doing my, I mean, there wasn't really a job placement program

coming out of college, and so you kind of have to figure out a way, I found like a local Orange County cable access new station, I started working at, and I was trying to put together a tape, which I wish we could cut to that now.

- Wow. - 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, 'cause, but you knew him from SC, yeah?”

- No, no, I'd never met him, but the point was here,

I'm just 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, I don't know what I'm talking about.

- Ooh, barking. - I got to ask someone, yeah, parking, I got to pay for it, I got to ask one of my classmates that they'll run sound for me. - Yeah, and you don't have a lot of money from,

you don't have a lot of money left over from that subscription until those, from Columbia. - Yeah, no, I mean, debt from Columbia House records, and see, 'cause 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 knowing away at me is I should really be looking into this comedy thing, so that's when I signed up

- 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 hairy carry? - Oh, that was, yeah, that was kind of midway, that was a couple years later during the baseball strike and just kills me.

- Oh, that was a character you did at groundlings? - Yeah, yeah, it was, it was the baseball strike and I used to, I had a job, the art auction house that my then friend, now wife, Vivaca, 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. - Wow. - And was threatened to be fired on several occasions, but I would, I live close enough home to drive home for lunch

and I would turn the cubs game so on during the day.

And I had never heard of her carry

and I was like, who is this guy? - Yeah, I grew up in Chicago, so he was a part of our lives. - A fixture, right? And so I'm just, I'd be listening

“and the thing that struck me was listening to a game”

and listening to the announcer say on syndicated national television. - If that balls the strike, I would chime in. - There we go. (laughing) - And I, I literally did like a spit take

and was like, did he just say chime in? And wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. This is like a guy who's paid to do this, he's like, and so I, not, 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 Carried 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, this, 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 when we make love?

(laughing) - And I, and by the end, by the end of the sketch, the audience was like doubling over and after, even though they had no idea that Harry Carried was a real person.

- Oh my God. - Oh, this is something that's transcending, you know. - Yeah.

- By the way, I was never knowing that,

of course you do the Harry Carried 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 trip 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, it'd be like, "Your tears made nothing to me."

(laughing) - This air just but broken. So it's the day we crossed the author. - You don't, you don't, you don't. - Always kind of drunk, right?

- Yeah, oh, okay. I just, and then, and quaking a little. - And then my friend Roy was a director like, "Okay, let's stop there, Harry. I don't know if I'm feeling, you know,

just giving the crazy acting notes and like, Harry, I really want to 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 on,

you're in 8H in the studio there. - God, you must've been so nervous. - I was just on 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. Just looking at all the famous pictures of everyone.

- Yeah. - Who had just hosted and being in the spot, and the place that you dreamed of being. - And then 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. - Yeah, they're void, possibly. - So yeah, that was very surreal. I tried doing it, I don't know.

- Well, Farrell, I also wanna know, like, have you ever desired to do anything? I know you wanna be a sports announcer, right? But if you weren't doing the thing that you're doing, not quarantining, but entertain the business,

what would you be doing? If you had to pick a blue collar job, you had to pick it.

- 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 finance. (laughing) I love figuring out like a second more, you know,

I'm sure. - I can't even do the bit, 'cause I don't even know the terms. (laughing) - Right, refi, refi, refi, uh, low, will comes alive when you mention private equity.

It's like, what, who's that, are you? - Subprime, is that still a thing? I actually could be a, I could actually be a postperson to be quite honest. - To deliver the mail.

- Because I like the idea of a route and you get to, you know, have some contact with people and the idea of finishing a task every day. - Would you be on foot armed with the, with the dog spray, or would you be in the buggy?

- I would go, I would go foot with the trolley, I'd push the trolley. - Nice. - Nice.

- Those are sneaky tricky.

Those three wheels thing, they will go over on you. - I'm sure they, yeah, at a high wind or, yeah. - Or if you don't take the letters out, you don't go in a clockwise or counterclockwise rotation. You take too many out of the left side,

it's gonna tip over on the right and vice versa. - Did you use to do it? - Hey, how often did you look out the window master reading a postman, a lot of little? (laughing)

- All the in the summer months when they wear the shorts. - 'Cause that car. - Yeah. - There's David, there's David. (laughing)

- David or a postman's here. - Yeah. - David is gonna topple. David is gonna topple. - Okay, the mail.

- Hey guys, David's here. (laughing) - Yes, what? - Wait. - We're the reverses, nobody's there.

(laughing) Nobody's there. He's the moon. 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, can right now Google up like the House and the Paryon and see cute little Jason Bateman. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- Did you ever have a real,

“did you ever have like a 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. - But 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 will say this, all my quote-unquote civilian jobs, I've been pretty terrible at. So... - Because you didn't like authority,

or you just dissent yourself. - You're not like slow, yeah, just like slow on the uptake. It's a lot of patient managers and supervisors, too. - Did you have a lot of job, like, do 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 partner 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 is not, it just took me a while. I mean, the fact that I was handling numbers and money is, it just, I was like... - You for it. - What?

- Because of the, the fun I lost. - I mean, that led to my love, fun it. But I, I once had a regular customer, stopped 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, and he's, and in front of me, he said, "This guy is your worst teller, okay?" And I just wanted you to know this. And he didn't have very calm way.

And he was like, "Look, look at him right now. He's sweating." And I literally went, so sweating. He's like, "He's terrible. He takes forever."

He, um, and, and the manager to her defense was like, "Please, that's that's not true." And I was like, "No, he's kind of right." And, um, 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, "I, you know what? I can't really argue with him." There's, uh, I'm not that great a teller.

- This was counting bills, uh, counting out cash or... - You know, everything. Caching a chat, yeah. Do it all, um, so. - That guy did you a favor in the long run, right?

- In a lot of ways.

“So I'm like, "You need to pen someone to letter."”

- Oh, well, every time I go, every time I put the pancake makeup on, and, uh, I picture that guy. And I, I say, "Who's laughing now?" - Um, um.

- So you still do all your own makeup? - I insist on. It's crazy. - Well, there's allergies, especially in the, you know,

I will definitely be doing all my own makeup.

- So, well, Farrell, 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? - Uh, there is, um, there is a certain level of underwhelming, does that a word?

- Yes. - Yeah. - It is now. - I can tell, I can tell there are a lot of letdown people.

- Continually. - But will, I will say this, you know, I will let you remember this a couple of years ago. Maybe last year we were having dinner. - Yeah.

- I was having dinner with Rickter and Pete Giles and, uh, you and Viv came in from a school event. - Yeah. - And with a couple other parents. - And, uh, will was running his name to,

they're all wearing name tags and will, so hello, my name is Will, on the thing, which was, which is great. And that's a testament to what a great guy you are. And it'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. - Um, 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. - Yeah. - I don't, I don't want to bother them. So then you're like, hey, how you doing? - And they walk right by and like, gosh, what?

- Did I see something wrong? - Yeah, yeah. - And then do you feel, on the, 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 to, friendly, they're really gonna lean in. And like, how do you kind of,

- I would say, no, I would say at least in the school setting most everyone is, is relatively normal. I, 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 games. (laughing) - Let's get to flying.

I mask and headphones. - Well, is there anything that you haven't done that you want to do? Either a role that you want to play or. - Nope, talk to you later.

- I told you that is fine. (laughing) - How do I turn this camera off? - How do I get out of it? How do I?

- Dude, how do I? - How do I? - 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, what would you do if like, let's say, let's say Ridley Scott came to you and he wanted to do King Lear.

And he just thought he sees something in you that it would just be like an incredibly less. It's off-brand and studios excited and all of those terms and all of that stuff

and a 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 tough one. - To try to convince yourself that you could pull that one off. - Having said that, you have, you have, you have King Lear?

(laughing) - You got to, no, Jason, are you doing it? - No, but you have, but what about, in all sincerity, I think you've taken what you do and you've pushed it into so many realistic,

dramatic, melancholy things that the 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 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 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 face. - Yeah, 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 work out. Well, just lats with what you do, arms and legs. Nobody does legs like you. And you've always said that.

- And nobody's got the posts. - You always post them too. - Sure, not a lot of people know that we'll train Reggie Bush when I mean you as you.

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? (laughing)

- I mean, leg D's a holiday in the feral household. (laughing) - Leg D is, yeah, it's just, now here's the other thing, well feral, you know, 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.

- Right, that's the hard part. - I can't attend to that, 'cause you are. - That's what they pay you for. - Yeah, that's the hard part. - That's a very, very sweet.

“And 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. - Ooh, he's all kombuchaed up. - Now, do you mean, what I'm full of?

- Well, we just want names. - We just want names, that. - 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 get, I'm trying to think of the lab. I mean, I have screened before. I have screamed in a professional manner. - Or like in life, or like at home, or like with in people and human beings.

What pisses you? - 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. (laughing) - I was, I mean, I did well in school, but I still had, you know, my room was a mess

and I never emptied the dishwasher. And, but for some reason, I'm just like, you guys, 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 lighter back in. - Oh, put the lighter back in. - Reline the trash can. - You're not on a line. - You're not on a line. - You step process, right? - Yeah.

- But for some reason, that I get crazy and then I'm like, who is this person? - Yeah. - But I was gonna 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 do we, he's on the thing in above?”

And as I was saying to her, like, he's on the Zoom class, he's on pause and he's playing a video game beat, beat, beat, they were looking there 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, what are you doing? - Yeah, exactly. - It was crazy. - I don't know why, yeah, I don't know why I go there. But I have one other thing. I don't, on, in a work experience, kind of, bugaboo?

- 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 is willing to do it if you are. And then, - Right. - Guilting you. - Yeah. - Yeah, and they do these wide circles, right? They just do little drive-bys of once a while,

the gauge whether you're in the mood or a bad mood. You just want to kind of run something by you. - And I'm always amazed at, we want to have 20 journalists visit the set and do a three-hour interview

while you guys are filming. And I'm always, but wait, isn't the movie the first priority? And 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 steady. - Okay, but is there 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. (laughs) - 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 when you were telling me once about kind of felt like the same thing. Somebody said to you, "Hey, we're gonna do a golf tournament." Tiger Witch is gonna come if you're in. And like you felt like a cylinder,

and then somebody had told Tiger that you were gonna play. And it was like, "Yes, yes, somehow my dad, my dad became-- - He was your dad. - My dad somehow became a middle man. 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."

and they'll raise a bunch of money for charity

“for another two, some so you're a force them together”

in 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 just good to go, and as I go down,

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 called Dr. Miller-Gutt involved in our James Mill. - 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.

(laughing) Your friend's lying to you. He was like, "How could that be?" And I said, I know, that's the way the world sometimes works. - Kind of music, what kind of music does he play?

- He's like a old-time rock and roll. - Really? - Yeah, yeah. - Guitarist? No, he's piano, sax, Hammond B3 organ?

- Wow. - Wow, oh. - Yeah, let's hear it for the Hammond B3. - That's amazing. - But yeah, that was my Tiger Woods story.

- I just, I always love 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-and-so-and-so are doing it."

And I always think back to that story of like, "And I'll go."

And I want you to make sure that's so-and-so-and-so-and-so,

“that's how I found myself on a island with Marie Osmond”

and Kurt Cameron, you know? (laughs) - Oh boy. - I got asked to play in another charity golf tournament by a friend, assuming that I was gonna 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." And they're like, "Hey, hope you're pretty good." - Did you end up playing? - 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% and they're like, "I hope you're good "because we win this thing every year." - And you better be funny. - And you, well, 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." - Yeah, sweet, he sounds sweet. - And then, I literally, we were supposed to be a banquet afterwards. And I said, "Guys, let me go put my clubs in my car

"and I'll meet you back inside." (laughing) Just go home and did we win? - Yes, we won. - Even just fight.

“- Did you really, you didn't stick around for the trophy?”

- I didn't stick around. - That's strong, you know. So as we say goodbye to you and this pandemic day, what do you do the rest of the day? - Let's see, let's see, it's three in the afternoon.

I'm gonna go, I might go walk our dogs, peanut and cosmo, right? - So that's where the mask? - There'll be with the mask. I'm gonna 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'm living, and I will start talking about, we start talking about what we're making for dinner

at a round noon every day, so we'll have to start. - You gotta fill the 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 100 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. - Yeah, but then you quickly realize

all that means is more work for you. - Yeah, yeah. - True. I did throw my 13 year old Matias' phone out the window. - You did.

- Dry, fall of a striving. But it was a real slow crawl. Then 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.

"I walk right through 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. You are a comedy here. - Thanks, you guys. - So much fun. - Can't thank you enough.

Very, very nice of you. - Oh, really? - Bye, guys. - Bye, guys. - Bye, well.

- 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's truck there for the first few minutes,

but God, he puts you at ease. Doesn't he want a nice guy? - You were starts like, "When I came on," or when he was down. - He was down.

- Sorry, our net. - Oh, when our net was sure. - Good for you, dude. Good for you, dude. I'm just like, "I'm a regular guy.

"I'm very approachable." Ferrell is the best. Isn't he? I had the honor and pleasure and good fortune, too,

to work on a couple things with him.

“And they were some of the my fondest memories”

because most of the time we just screwed around. - And he'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 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, I mean, he just surprises you with stuff. It's just awesome.

- Is there anything you guys learned about him that you didn't know? - It's really about his dad. - Yeah, it's not an 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 that I guess I didn't really realize his dad was in your system. 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, no, you gotta go back and look at some of those. - But you hosted a couple times while he was on this. - Yeah. (laughing)

- I don't look behind me. I don't look behind me. I just look forward. - No, okay, let's. - So, I don't know how that's applicable in this cave.

- Sean, I'm very proud of you. You got, you got Will Ferrell to say yes. You have any sort of incriminating photos or do you have 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, good. - Love you guys. - I love you.

- Hey, guys, I just wanna say, "BANG!" (upbeat music)