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--His Harry Caray impression
--As Alex Trebek on Jeopardy, with contestants including Sean Connery and Burt Reynolds
--As professor Roger and his hot-to-trot wife Virginia in the hot tub, harrassing poor business traveler Doug (Jimmy Fallon)
--As one of the Roxbury brothers with Jim Carrey and Chris Kattan
--Substitute art class nude model Terrence Maddox
--Infomercial for Dissing Your Dog
--Weekend update special guest Jacob Silj
--Father of a dysfunctional family with Sarah Michelle Gellar as his rebellious teenage daughter

Extra features include his SNL audition routine (he does his Harry Caray, a Ted Kennedy, and some original characters), two Conan O'Brien guest appearances, some outtakes, and one hilarious dress sketch which never made the final show in which he played Old Prospector Gus Chiggins, assigned to accompany an army unit into Afghanistan.

You know this stuff is good--in half the sketches, the other actors are sobbing they're trying so hard not to laugh. Especially Jimmy Fallon, who finds Ferrell so funny he snorts out half his lines. And through it all, Ferrell stays in character, fully committed. As James Lipton would say, "What courage! What humanity! We are in the presence...of greatness!"

But any Ferrell fan will instantly rattle off several classic Ferrell sketches which are missing: Doug, the face of erectile dysfunction; the bad doctor; the commercial for the hamburger helper mix with antibacterial agents for weeks old ground beef, etc. NBC really needs to honor Will's body of work by issuing a second volume, or a box set, even. Such work must not be relegated to the whims of Comedy Central reruns.

The most raw talent in years
Will Ferrell is simply put, one of the finest comedic performers in the last 50 years. He has a style to him similar to the old comedic personalities of Vaudville. The person I would compare him to the most is Cornell "The Laugh Machine" Orsen. Cornell never recieved the national spotlight that Mr. Ferrell recieved, but that is mostly because Mr. Orsen was affraid to travel by anything larger than a bicycle. He was a Vaudville performer that quickly made the transition to television in the first days of it. But, once again, his phobias held him back. He had a fear of boom microphones. He didn't like having a microphone hovering above his head, and this lead to him having a panic attack on live television, urinating his pants, and then screaming a word that I can not repeat on this family website. He was famous for his knock-em-dead impression of Dewight D. Eisenhower, and several other of his characters that he had created. My favorite of those characters was a fella that went by the name of "Duke Braunsburger". He used an english accent and said things like "I'll park me MG on your face!" and "I've got 2 bits if you've got 2 fists!" A great stereotypical english hooligan fighter. It was a stitch!
The character that ol' Cornell Orsen will never be forgotten for though is Leonard the Eskimo. His catchphrase was "Now that's just BLUBBER!" and if someone was running he would always yell out "SNOW DOWN!"

Will Ferrell embraces Cornell Orsen's great delivery and comic timing, he also gets into his roles like no one besides Cornell. Will Ferrell has actually been quoted as saying that Cornell was one of his early influences, so Mr. Ferrell is also a student of comedy, proving, you don't just wake up one day making people laugh.

5 big stars, and make sure you pick up his finest work, "Night at the Roxberry" as well.

Could there be another DVD for will?
I just got this DVD and I have to say it's missing allot of what made Will so good to watch.Some classic skits are here and worth buying,just beware it's short.