You know, I'm gonna give you a history lesson.

We got some dumb-ass motherfuckers floating around this country.

Stop laughing.

And when I do, start fucking.

Also, y'all did some nasty-ass jokes on my ass, too.

Funny jokes and unfunny jokes come out of the same birth.

You fucking guys are unbelievable.

Why are you laughing?

Evening, everybody.

Welcome to another episode of Why Are You Laughing, a history of comedy podcast.

And today, I am pleased to present to you the downfall of Will Ferrell.

Now, this may seem like a misleading title, only in the sense that Will Ferrell's never really left like the public consciousness.

He was just in, you know, one of the highest grossing movies of the year, if not ever.

The goddamn Barbie movie that he can't stop hearing about.

But it is weird to see Will Ferrell in a role that, like, didn't make that big a

difference.

They could have gotten a lot of people to play the head of Mattel and Barbie.

Like, that's not what Will Ferrell was.

What he was when I was a kid was the biggest comedy star in the world.

Like, he was one of my guys, the way, you know, Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler were for a generation or Bill

Murray or Chevy Chase or like people around my age, that was Will Ferrell. He was a massive,

massive star. And then all of a sudden he kind of became, I've never heard him as a joke,

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