Will Ferrell

A kicker for the Varsity football team, and still holds the school record for the most field goals made.
His first son was born during the filming Derby in famiglia (2005), which is why it is his favorite of the films he appeared in. He said that he is eager for his son to see it, because he will always associate it with his birth.
His father, Lee Ferrell, was a longtime keyboardist and saxophonist for The Righteous Brothers.
Does not do stand-up comedy like most of the Il Saturday Night Live (1975) cast and alumni. He considers it to be "hard, lonely and vicious".
He was the first and last guest on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (1954).

I'm not really an exhibitionist. I'm drawn to the outrageous stuff because it's fun, not because it's some deep compulsion. I'm no tortured, anger-stoked, deeply neurotic comic. Just a pretty low-key normal guy. A, "Hey, the glass is half-full", kind of a guy. But please keep it quiet, or I may never work again.
I often don't think a lot about the ramifications of anything I do.
There's just something about yelling that's funny to me.
[on being a comic]: I attribute it to growing up in safe, boring suburbia in California. I wasn't beaten up by anyone, there was a really low crime rate. There was really nothing to do except think of funny things.
It was a gradual rise that started on SNL. I went from being the guy who did the cheer-leading thing, to the guy who plays the president to, "Hey, that's Will Ferrell!" I saw that happen then in terms of films, and it was really Old School (2003) that got me a real lead part. It was a scary thing when I left SNL (in 2003), but then "Old School" came out, and then Elf - Un elfo di nome Buddy (2003) happened the same year, and now Ricky Bobby - La storia di un uomo che sapeva contare fino a uno (2006).