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  1. Will Ferrell & Adam McKay Are Writing Step Brothers 2: The StepbrotheringIt’s bittersweet news for those of us who’d rather have an Anchorman 2 (that sequel isn’t going anywhere, tragically), but Step Brothers 2 is […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  2. The Business, History and Philosophy of Funny or DieDid you know that Funny or Die is worth $300 million and that Michelle Obama watched “The Landlord”? All that and more can be found in this […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  3. movies
    Pantelion Picks Up Will Ferrell Spanish Film Casa de Mi PadreYou might need the subtitles.
    By Brett Smiley
  4. Lauryn Kahn Sells Million-Dollar Script to Her Old Boss: Adam McKayWill Ferrell and Adam McKay’s production company Gary Sanchez is producing a new film, He’s F***ing Perfect, about “one woman who regularly […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  5. The SNL Movies That Never HappenedEver since the first Wayne’s World movie became a surprise hit, making $183 million from of a scant $20 million budget, releasing a sea of […]
    By Bradford Evans
  6. Book of Mormon’s Josh Gad To Pen Sitcom For NBC In those few spare hours when he is not starring in Book of Mormon, Josh Gad and Will Farrell’s Gary Sanchez Productions have teamed up as […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  7. The New Age of the Comedy Auteur?Comedy at its basic form necessitates collaboration. Whether it’s the unspoken bond between standup and audience, the onstage trust between […]
    By Bill Grandberg
  8. K-Swiss Cologne Finally Helps You Smell Like Kenny Powers’ Boner I don’t know if Kenny Power’s K-Swiss cologne commercials are really the best testament to the scent actually smelling good, unless there’s a […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  9. exclusive
    Adam McKay to Direct Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg in Football ComedyPreviously known as ‘Turkey Bowl,’ now known as ‘Three Mississippi.’
    By Claude Brodesser-Akner
  10. Will Ferrell to Play ‘a narcissistic hedge fund manager who thinks he has […]Alan Cohen and Alan Freedland, the guys who wrote Due Date, just sold a new script called Swear to God to Warner Brothers. Apparently, Will […]
    By Adam Frucci
  11. Alec Baldwin Is Joining Adam McKay’s Ferrell/Wahlberg Football ComedyLooks like Alec Baldwin is joining what was formally known as The Turkey Bowl and is currently known as Three Mississippi as “Wahlberg’s […]
    By Adam Frucci
  12. President Bush Announces the Downfall of His Greatest Enemy, the Location […] In this Funny Or Die video starring Will Ferrell, cowritten by Adam McKay and Chris Kelly, former President Bush stops by the Sizzler to […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  13. Women Be Marrying! Lizzy Caplan And Casey Wilson To Star In […] Will our lust for wedding-related humor ever be satiated? Or will an eternity of nuptial humor pour forever into the bouquet-shaped hollow in […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  14. Adam McKay Is Ditching Comedies to Make an R-Rated ‘Anti-Superhero Movie’What’s with the directors of major comedies moving on to direct distinctly non-comedic projects? First Greg Mottola signs on to direct Aaron […]
    By Adam Frucci
  15. Learn How Adam McKay Channels ‘Cosmic Rage’ In His Therapist’s New Yorker […]If you’re wondering if seeing a therapist will help your bizarre comedian tendencies, well, help is such subjective word. This week’s The New […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  16. ego
    Tales From the Hollywood Power-Therapist CouchAnecdotes about Sharon Stone, Adam McKay, and Bret Easton Ellis’s shrinks.
    By Willa Paskin
  17. Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly Recording a Stepbrothers Rap Album For […]Here’s some strange news: Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly are returning to their Stepbrothers characters…to record a rap album produced by […]
    By Adam Frucci
  18. The All-Star Version of the Risk! Podcast Is Chock Full of Famous Comics’ […]Podcast aficionado Joe Berkowitz already introduced us to the Risk! podcast, hosted by The State’s Kevin Allison, but the most current episode […]
    By Adam Frucci
  19. the industry
    Industry Roundup: Brad Pitt and Chilean Miners?Plus: A guest star on Matthew Perry’s new sitcom.
    By Avi Zenilman
  20. Will Ferrell and Adam McKay Celebrate 20 Years of IMDB IMDB is celebrating its 20th anniversary, so they got Will Ferrell and Adam McKay to “answer” some of their questions. They do no real […]
    By Adam Frucci
  21. The Virginity Hit: The Humiliations of Growing Up, Made PublicMaybe you’ve noticed the signs during your morning subway commute. They’re almost believable for a split second: Still a virgin? Call the […]
    By Alice Gregory
  22. tv
    Watch the Story of How Adam McKay and Will Ferrell Discovered Chris GethardIt was in a forest, and they caught him with sandwiches.
    By Edith Zimmerman
  23. movies
    The Virginity Hit Trailer: Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Uncomfortable Nerd-Sex QuestWill these nerds ever lose their virginity?
    By Edith Zimmerman
  24. the industry
    Industry Roundup: Molina, McConaugheyPlus: Linda Hamilton to play ‘Chuck”s long-lost mother.
    By Josh Duboff
  25. sadness
    Anchorman 2 Would Have Been a Musical“We were going to do four months on Broadway and then jump right into filming.”
    By Lane Brown
  26. quote machine
    Time to Start a New Facebook GroupPlus: Daniel Dae Kim spoils the ‘Lost’ finale.
  27. anchorman
    Paramount Passes on Anchorman Sequel, McKay Says“We tried,” the director tweets.
    By Josh Duboff
  28. quote machine
    Ryan Phillippe Highly Underrated As a Rapper, Says Ryan PhillippePlus: Bill Murray still not interested in ‘Ghostbusters 3.’
  29. chat room
    ‘World’s Nicest Comedian’ Chris Gethard on Replacing Jon Heder“I’ve been working for ten years, and sometimes you have to wonder if anything’s ever going to happen with your career.”
    By Lindsay Robertson
  30. trailer mix
    The Other Guys Trailer: Bad Cop, Fake CopMark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell are very, very angry.
    By Lindsay Robertson
  31. comedy
    World’s Nicest Comedian Wins Lead Role in Will Ferrell’s New Comedy Central ShowChris Gethard did an amazing good deed, and the comedy gods were watching.
    By Lindsay Robertson
  32. casting couch
    Chris Parnell and Horatio Sanz Join Jon Heder’s New SitcomMore details on the Will Ferrell–Adam McKay Comedy Central show.
    By Lindsay Robertson
  33. disappointments
    Will Ferrell Gets Cut From American Idol FinaleWeak sauce!
    By Mark Graham
  34. the industry
    Matt Damon to Possibly Fall in Love With RobotPlus: Yogi Bear’s back.
    By Amos Barshad
  35. the industry
    Will Ferrell to Honor George W. Bush on BroadwayPlus: Brad Pitt does math!
    By Nick Confalone
  36. the early-evening news
    Brand-New New Kids on the Block Single Leaks to Internet; World RejoicesPlus: Rose McGowan is still Barbarella, and ‘MILF Island’ might not be a completely original idea after all.
  37. the industry
    Katherine McPhee McFlees Her LabelPlus industry news on Will Ferrell, Paul Bettany, and Hunter Foster.
  38. quote machine
    From Lee King to the King of the Jews: The Best Quotes of 2007“My mind thinks like that all the time, coming up with crazy clever metaphors and rhymery thingies.”
  39. the early-evening news
    Claymates Rejoice: Clay Aiken Heads for BroadwayPlus news about Amy Winehouse, Helen Mirren, and Judd Apatow.
  40. the early-evening news
    Barry Manilow and Elisabeth Hasselbeck Don’t Fall in LovePlus: News about Michael Bay and Will Ferrell!
  41. the best part
    The Weirdest User Comment on the New Will Ferrell Viral VideoLast night, FunnyOrDie.com launched the sequel to its viral video hit “The Landlord.” The new video, again starring Will Ferrell and 2-year-old Pearl McKay (daughter of director Adam McKay), is called “Good Cop, Baby Cop” and pits unrepentant triple murderer Ferrell against “loose cannon” interrogator Pearl.
  42. tube junkie
    Will Ferrell Outed as GrupCourtesy of FunnyOrDie.com Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s new user-supplied video site, FunnyOrDie.com, made a splashy debut this week with a feature in the Hollywood Reporter and a reported 2 million streams for the site’s showcase video, “The Landlord.” The short consists mostly of Ferrell’s sad-sack character facing off against his angry landlord. The gimmick is that the landlord is played by McKay’s toddler daughter, Pearl. How funny you find it will depend on how funny you find a 3-year-old screaming, “Give me my money, bitch!”