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For first, we feast on Shaun Evans and you're watching hot ones.

It's the show with hard questions and even hotter wings.

And today we're joined by Will Ferrell.

He's a comedy icon with the storied career in TV and film that spans decades, and he has a new film.

It's called Downhill in theaters February 14th.

Go check it out.

But first, the Wings of Death.

Will Ferrell.

Welcome to the show.

Thank you.

Thank you, Sean.

How do you handle your heat?

Well, I enjoy spicy food to an extent.

Yeah.

How about yourself?

Well, I I do.

By vocation.

I do have to say I do have a very active ulcer right now, so I don't know if that would be an issue.

Not at all.

They're even worry about it.

Great.

And I should say, full disclosure.

We're supposed to do this interview with well, and Julia Louis tried.

She's under the weather, and you cannot be taken on the wings of death when you're under the weather, you know?

No, there's no way There's no way.

So the interview might be a little funky today.

We're calling it audible.

God will do that.

We're gonna make it work.

Absolutely.

Okay.

The classic.

No big deal.

No.

No problem.

No problem.

So I'm curious about the production process on downhill, behind the scenes photos, They're beautiful.

Same with the trailer and note was shot in Austria.

But I do have to imagine that shooting in the slopes like that day in and day out there had to have been some logistical challenge.

Absolutely.

Yeah, it was.

I mean, you know, we're shooting most of the movie outdoors.

You lose the light right around 3 34 4 o'clock in the afternoon, shooting in the wintertime.

So a lot of 4:35 a.m. Wake up calls to get on a huge Snowcat to, you know, to be on the side of the mountain as the sun was rising.

It was great, actually, we used all the elements, too, to our benefit would Paul Road was on the show.

He made an interesting point about how often times the funniest moments and films are ones that run up against things that are inherently difficult or sad.

What's the appeal of a movie like Downhill were?

Oftentimes the humor is wrapped up in drama.

That's very real.

The humor really comes from the fact that we play very relatable characters.

Everyone's sitting back going, Oh, my gosh, that's my husband or that's my wife.

And on either either fortunately or unfortunately, I've been in that awkward situation, And you kind of at the end of the movie in a beautiful way Don't really know what's gonna happen with them, which I don't think we find in movies A lot of times now, nowadays, I was hoping you're gonna have a tamale Pekka.

Lucky you.

It was like Christmas morning.

If what you gave people on Christmas morning, we're hot wings.

Yeah, Don't be so lucky.

So beyond ski.

And I know that you're a huge sports fan, Then you even studied sports broadcasting in college.

Do you remember how you discovered Harry Carey?

And then what do you think is most unique trait?

Sadly, the tamale Pekka, that's just number two is already doing a number.

That's just too I know.

Okay, Julia left you hanging over it, and I just I'm gonna have a go.

Go ahead.

Sorry.

The question, Harry.

Something about Harry Carey.

So I'm a West Coast guy.

I worked close enough to where my apartment was so I could drive home for lunch.

Sometimes I would turn the TV on at lunchtime and the Cubs air, one of the few teams that still does predominantly day games.

You know, outside of the fanatical Cubs fan, you don't really You only know who Harry care was.

I just couldn't believe the stuff he would say in the middle of the game.

I remember one time was watching, and hey was like, really getting mad at the Cubs pitcher at the time.

And three guys who was pitching was named Heathcliff Slocum and he was like, He's cliffs.

Welcome on the mound and ball to Oh, come on!

If he's throwing hard, I'm a China man and just like, did you just say Chinamen on a live broadcast kept watching him and studying him?

And just as I went down the road, it was someone who I decided to try to Impersonating.

Well, it must've been such a thrill them when you played those five spring training games, but it was the most thrilling memory from that because I did think it was impressive.

But you fought off that 92 miles per hour.

Yes, I found I found Jean Machi Jima.

Yes, probably.

My highlight was getting, too Was playing for the angels of the time and center field.

And they actually hit a ball to me out there.

And I field it cleanly and hit the cutoff man.

And it was like, textbook textbook.

All right, well, you ready to move on?

Not really.

It's a good plan for Fiji fire.

Right?

Well, they all get plugs.

Yeah, but they don't have to be good, will.

Oh, no.

I mean, you're right.

You want to slam a bottle lamp label?

Trust me, it gets weird.

I'm gonna look back.

So when we had Seth Meyers on, he talked about how one of the main roads to success in comedy.

It used to be directly through the improv theaters in Chicago and you started at the Groundlings.

Is the live stage show still the best place to cut your teeth and comedy?

Or is that path more or less given way to the Internet?

That's a good question.

I mean, I think, you know, I think it's a combination of both.

I think, uh, now you have this whole other universal other outlet Thio, you know, record sketches or characters and put them online and have people discover it that way at the same time.

There's just no substitute for, you know, honing your craft in front of a live audience and getting that immediate feedback.

If your aspirations are being on a show like Saturday Night Live, it's invaluable for us.

At the Groundlings it was.

It was much more of an emphasis on writing sketches.

Improv kind of came secondary.

So by the time I got to start Night Live, I was I had a huge advantage.

I knew how to write for myself, which isn't always the case.

It's not like you show up at the show and they assigned you three riders just to take care of you.

It's it's very much feaster famine.

So, you know, I would encourage trying all of those All of those mediums, in a way, doesn't have scotch in it.

You can only hope mustardy first you hit that mustard, Then the scotch on the stretcher bullet Scott spotted.

Yeah, you don't seem to be reacting the same way I'm reacting.

Well, you did bear Grylls, right?

I did imagine if you go out into the wilderness with Bear Grylls and he's freaking out, panicking the whole time, you're not going to stick with him, All right?

You're my You're my Sherpa.

Exactly.

Exactly.

So I have to put a hard foot inside.

I'm not okay.

Good, good, good, good.

So recently, there was a minor Internet controversy when footage came out of James Corden and Justin Bieber doing an episode of carpool karaoke.

Except the Range Rover was being towed by a tow truck.

Oh, I hadn't heard about this as a comedian, that shocking as a comedian who's gotten coffee with Jerry Seinfeld.

Is he really driving that car?

He's not.

It's being pushed from behind.

No, Jerry's actually driving.

He's got these.

The tiniest little cameras appear little GoPro's or whatever there, but he's actually driving the car, and I will have to say is an excellent driver.

He tries to pick a car.

I was under the assumption that their cars that he owns because he's a big car guy, but he just tries to pick a car that he feels is is suited to your personality or something that reflects you in some way.

So he picked me up in a a pinto Ford Pinto?

No, he picked me up with some weird kit car.

I was, like, some bizarre.

Did you take it as a compliment?

I did.

That's what's important.

All right, Well, are you ready to move on halfway?

Mark, you're already okay.

This is the lows, Kelly.

Antis low scallion tastes Rojo.

These wings are perfectly aged.

Delicious dry chicken.

All right, well, we have a recurring segment on her show called.

Explain that, Graham.

We do a deep dive on our guests.

Instagram pull interesting pictures that need more context.

Okay, But you have sworn off social media altogether.

I'm not really?

Yeah, I received a tip.

My cap to it.

Yeah, but we still Doug, I was on Twitter for four days.

What made you throw in the towel there?

Because I was tweeting about something.

Tweet was promoting some charity event I was gonna do, and they were like, That's not Twitter.

What's Twitter things?

Four.

Stop.

We want to hear about your life.

Yeah, I got shouted off Twitter is like, I can't take it.

I'm off, all right.

But you know what?

Will you still have pictures on the Internet?

I tried a couple, so I'm the topic of the Cubs.

Here you are eating what looks to be a nice of Lou Malnati's?

Uh For those of you enjoy deep dish pizza, I think you will all.

You'll agree that, like the first piece, is delicious, especially if you're hungry for pizza.

And then the 2nd 1 puts you to sleep.

You know, Ryan Dempster gets a lot of credit for being one of the funny year clubhouse gets here.

He's very funny.

Yeah, and he I think he gave me.

I was throwing out the first pitch.

He gave me his glove.

Whoa, believe or not, how nice is that?

The glove seems kind of sacred to a baseball player.

You know, I kind of understand rest.

Bender would have our later have 500 bucks.

Who do you think is the funniest athlete you ever worked with that Saturday Night Live?

Definitely Shaquille O'Neal.

We did a sketch in which it's actually you go.

You can find it online, but it was cut for time, but we didn't sketch where the cast was.

I was in footy pajamas and the cast is picking on me and shot came over and shoot him all the way and then proceeded to sing a song called No one hurts my little man and then pick me up in his arms and serenaded me was very bizarre.

I don't want to jinx it, but I feel like I'm doing pretty good staying on the topic of food.

What was a more traumatic dining experience for you?

Eating that maple syrup and fudge spaghetti on elf or eating a grilled reindeers eyeball when you were surviving up in the north?

Definitely the eyeball.

The eyeball was slimy and gelatinous And then you crunched down on the cornea.

And then you get into that middle pushiness.

Yeah, yeah, there's no question.

I mean, little maple syrup on spaghetti.

Who cares?

But a reindeer eyeball 20 miles north of the Arctic Circle.

Not good.

Where's Stargazer made?

Canada, always known for their hot sauce.

Comes from Ontario.

Yeah, Okay.

I call Ontario.

But Mexico of Canada?

Yeah.

How's that hot sauce?

Not that handling them.

Okay?

Doing great.

We'll take a little sip.

Go ahead.

We'll wait.

So is an eye creeps up on you a little bit.

With decades in the comedy game, it's only right with you here that we verify some of the folklore surrounding Will Ferrell.

OK, is it true that the prosthetic testicles that you got from the set of stepbrother Yes, your most treasured keepsake one of definitely top five, my definitely a top one top, too.

I give him in a little like a trophy case like, you know, proper.

You'd see in a sports member like you put a baseball like a signed baseball like a plastic, put it up on a pedestal exactly where it belongs.