Per The Hollywood Reporter, Will Ferrell (Step Brothers, Daddy’s Home) reflects on his time during SNL to which he has nothing but positive things to say. He was cast member from 1995 to 2002. In an interview with People, he explores what it was like working on the show.
He was featured in many popular sketches, such as Dr. Beanan’s Office: Test Results, More Cowbell and Spartan Cheerleaders at Tryouts, as well as many others.
“I had a wonderful seven seasons on that show, where I made lifelong friends,” he said in the People interview. “I knew in that moment it would be the hardest but most fun job I would ever get to do, and I still look back on it that way.”
He continued to applaud SNL for all of their recent success and attention it has been receiving for over five decades, as stated by The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s really an amazing thing that you have this live television show that still continues to put its finger on the pulse of what we’re all thinking about, and it’s real credit to [creator] Lorne [Michaels] for having thought of it in the first place,” Ferrell said via People. “It was the one thing I always dreamed about being a part of. … It’s kind of enormous to think about in a way, 50 years of what has really defined American comedy.”
THR stated that although he is proud of the comedy show, he is happy he doesn’t have to add to the 50th season by adding, “Thank God I don’t have to put together the show, whatever they’re planning on doing, … because I don’t know how you distill 50 years of great moments, spanning from music to comedy to cultural things, into a show.”
Mxdwn covered the SNL hosts, schedules and musical performances of season 50 including Jean Smart (Designing Women, Hacks) with Jelly Roll (Wild Ones, Save Me), Nate Bargatze (Stand Up Planet, The Match: Superstars) with Coldplay (Fix You, Viva La Vida), Ariana Grande (Wicked, Don’t Look Up) with Stevie Nicks (Dreams, The Chain), Michael Keaton (The Founder, Beetlejuice) with Billie Eilish (Lovely, Blue) and John Mulaney (The Bear, Big Mouth) with Chappell Roan (Hot To Go!, Pink Pony Club). In October, Grande and Nicks brought in 5.6 million views per mxdwn. In November, Mxdwn reported Kamala Harris (Superheroes Are Everywhere, Smart on Crime) joined Maya Rudolph (Bridesmaids, Turbo) in her skit of Harris’ campaign.