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According to Forbes, Will Ferrell was the highest-paid actor of 2005 with a salary of $40 million. In Hollywood, money often means power, so the strength of a Will Ferrell endorsement cannot be matched. Apple Computers took advantage of his success by tapping him to star in a series of iPod commercials.
Any true Will Ferrell fan has been to the hilarious website FunnyorDie.com, and now you can catch Will Ferrell and rising comedy stars Zach Galifianakis, Demetri Martin and Nick Swardson live in concert in Will Ferrell’s Funny or Die Comedy Tour. With a line up like that, tickets are sure to go fast, so get your tickets now and see Will Ferrell’s Funny or Die Comedy Tour on stage!
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After a crowd-pleasing run on TV's Saturday Night Live, Will Ferrell turned into an unexpected movie box office superstar with the hit 2003 comedies Old School and Elf. Ferrell's performing career began after college, when he joined The Groundlings, a comedy theater company based in Los Angeles. After years of improvisational comedy and the occasional TV role, he was made a regular cast member of SNL in 1995. Ferrell's awkward, half-burly, middlebrow charm, combined with his outrageous physical gags and impersonations of George W. Bush and others, made him one of the most popular members of the cast. Among his many memorable sketches was the "more cowbell" skit (2000, with Christopher Walken) which made the phrase a pop-culture favorite. Ferrell left SNL in 2002 to work full-time on his movie career.
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The Landlord, the showcase clip on Will Ferrell's new comedy site, has clocked an impressive 2 million downloads since it went up on Thursday. It looks like the comic actor, star of movies such as the Wedding Crashers and Blades of Glory, has, with the Funny or Die property, a web hit on his hands. As does Sequoia Capital, the Silicon Valley venture firm which quietly backed the online comedy project. Sand Hill Road used to shy away from entertainment businesses, which depend on capricious stars and fickle audiences. At this rate, they'll be waiting, like the Hollywood studios they used to despise, for the opening night numbers whenever a new site goes live.
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A graduate of the University of Southern California, Will Ferrell became interested in performing while a student at University High School in Irvine, California, where he made his school’s daily morning announcements over the public address system in disguised voices. He started as a member of the Los Angeles comedy/improvisation group The Groundlings, where fellow cast members Ana Gasteyer, Maya Rudolph and former “Saturday Night Live” (1975) repertory players such as Laraine Newman, Jon Lovitz and Phil Hartman began their careers. It was there he met Chris Kattan and the two became good friends and both went on to “Saturday Night Live” (1975) later. He has ... appeared on several television programs, including “Strangers with Candy” (1999), “Grace Under Fire” (1993) and “Living Single” (1993) during his time at The Groundlings. Will also lent his voice to the armless and legless dad of cartoon family “The Oblongs”.
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Will Ferrell was born on July 16, 1967, and is a member of the famed Frat Pack, which includes other actors like Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, the Wilson Brothers, and Jack Black. These actors have collaborated on many comedic projects together.
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