Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

I know I say often how excited I am to bring you a conversation,

and I always meet it because I love our guests,

but I'm maybe a little extra excited this week

because we have one of my favorite people in all of entertainment. For my money, the funniest man on

the planet, he is Will Ferrell. I will not waste your time or insult your taste in high comedy

with a long winding introduction because you know this

man also I'm battling a sinus infection and nobody wants to hear this voice for very long.

What I will say is that it was so cool to sit with Will.

We've been doing this show Sunday today for almost nine years now, always been at the top

of our list for a sit down, finally got together and made it happen.

The timing was perfect.

The 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, the show where he was hired in 1995, 30 years ago,

spent seven season and the show that launched him and made him a comedy star.

Too many memorable sketches to go through, but we do talk about them in the conversation.

We actually got together a little restaurant right off the rink at Rockefeller Center in the

shadow of the building where he held an office and sat and performed for those seven seasons

on S&L. Also, the rink where he skated was Zoe Day Chanel, an elf. Remember that?

So anyway, you know the story of Will Ferrell. Irvine, California, grows up. His dad is a keyboard

player for the righteous brothers, goes to USC, gets a job as a bank teller, tries to have what he

calls a real job. Then he goes, this isn't working, joins the groundlings,

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