Will Ferrell Apologizes For Old SNL Jokes. What A Shame.

a few days ago I played a trailer from the upcoming Will frell documentary on Netflix called will and Harper it's about a road trip that will frell apparently look took with a Harper steel after Harper a former headwriter at SNL announced that he's actually a woman um it's never explained why a road trip was necessary or appropriate under those circumstances but um that's the premise his friend suddenly says he's really a woman and so they hop in a car and start driving and the film looks about as terrible as you'd expect at one point will Ferell says hey are you a worst driver now that you're a woman and then they chuckle and then the scene keeps going and Harper steel Says Yes actually and and then they laugh even more so it really subverts your expectations and by the way that's as edgy as the humor we'll get I guarantee you in this thing that's it right there that was their one edgy joke right they uh they really going up on the line there made a joke about women drivers wow these guys really taking a risk with their comedy so a film like this raises a lot of questions they're not the questions the filmmakers were hoping to raise but it does raise them nonetheless and one of the big questions is why will frell and a lot of other comedians like him suddenly decided to stop making funny and entertaining movies you know it happened around a decade ago for reasons that uh remain unexplained although you know there are theories that one might have but the fact is we went from old school and Step Brothers to melodramatic road trips about will frell's friend deciding that he wants to wear dresses so what exactly happened and is there any remaining chance that will frell will one day in the future once again make a movie that qualifies as a comedy well in a recent interview Will Farrell himself answered uh that last question with a resounding no and he did that by disavowing some of his old comedy for being insensitive and he did it in a way that's both humiliating and confusing at the same time variety reports quote will farell is no longer interested in performing in drag for Laughs during an interview of the on the New York Times the interview podcast along times alongside his longtime friend and former SNL headwriter Harper steel faral expressed a bit of regret over the Janet Reno's fantasies sketch from season 23 of the sketch comedy show the sketch featured W frell and drag as the aonomus uh uh attorney general with his appearance dressing up as a woman being used for Laughs that's something I wouldn't choose to do now frell said when the times noted the character hits a false note now and then Harper steel adds this quote I understand the laughter the laugh is a drag laugh it's hey look at this guy in a dress and that's funny it's absolutely not funny it's absolutely a way that we should be able to live in the world a few things about this first of all there is no one on the planet who in the year 2024 was thinking about the Janet Reno's fantasies sketch from season 23 of the Saturday Night Live talking about a sketch from a season that aired 27 years ago not even professional trans activists who are paid to get offended were talking about that even the biggest fans of SNL on on the planet assuming they still exist we're not talking about that uh if you pull up these sketches on YouTube there's barely any views but uh just so you know what which sketches we're talking about here's a brief clip of one of them work work work if I'd known being attorney general was this hard I would have stayed in Florida but just think Simba only 41 more White House videotapes and then we can watch harot the Spy there he is Simba Bill Clinton and he's having coffee with a bunch of Chinese people so you get the idea will frell is doing an impression of Jan arino who's attorney general at the time and people apparently thought the impression was amusing uh because SNL had a whole series of sketches like this uh here's one where will Ferell as Janet Reno was hosting awkward dance parties in her home and it was supposed to be funny because she takes herself extremely seriously so she's not the kind of person you expect to host a dance party in her basement you know that's just to explain the joke that's the joke um this is what they call uh irony it's a common tool of comedians which will frell is not anymore but uh anyway here it is and now from the home of the Attorney General of the United States it's time for Janet Reno's dance [Music] party hi I'm J Reno welcome to janino's dance party coming to you live from my basement say I really like dancing to that song so the joke in these sketches is pretty clear even if they're not exactly topical anymore but um in SNL there they're not even really making fun of the idea of a man dressing as a woman they're mocking Janet Reno's demeanor and the way they did that was by casting a man to play janino it's sort of like how SNL cast a woman to play Ted Cruz very recently which interestingly enough did not trigger any outrage cycle at all uh and nobody said that that was somehow offensive to trans quote unquote transmen or or anything uh but it's supposed to be humorous because the audience thinks that the impression is accurate and that's it uh what's changed of course is that back in 1997 no one seriously thought that a man transformed into a woman simply by putting on a wig and some makeup that wouldn't have even occurred to a single man or woman in the audience and and so back then it was a punchline you know in fact there was uh quite a lot of crossdressing that went on in '90s comedies whether it's on SNL or or in in in films you know Mrs Doubtfire one famous example and the reason why this was done in comedy is that it was understood that it's inherently ridiculous for a man to dress like a woman so it's just a cheap way to get laughs are you still struggling with back taxes or unfiled Returns the IRS is escalating collections by adding 20,000 new 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now they're doing the meme where they're crossing their arms and staring at their own material and saying that's not that's not funny not funny doing that to themselves because they need to tear down anything that might remind people of a time not too long ago when the world wasn't completely insane and used to recognize ridiculous things as ridiculous when this is the standard you can't have comedy it's just not possible when you have to bow to the demands of pathological narcissists people who object to sketches from the 90s that no one's talking about anymore then comedy is more trouble than it's worth and frell knows that presumably but he's made enough money so he's a political activist now apologizing for his previous sins back when he was a comedian there's a lot of that going around the cast members of friends another show from the 90s that no one had a problem with at the time uh some of them are now uh uh disavowing their own show usweekly reports quote while Adam Goldberg looks back at his time on friends with fondness he also recognizes criticisms the show has received in the 30 years since it's first premiered in terms of diversity looking back it seems insane Goldberg's stated in an interview with the independent I've heard black people speak about this and it's like you never expected to see yourself so when you didn't it was not a surprise you ended up identifying uh to characters irrespective of their race in other words friends was too white and never mind the fact that in the real world people don't go out and recruit token diversity candidates to to round out their friend group there's nothing unrealistic about you know a few white people being friends there's nothing wrong with that one would think people don't choose the members of their social circus based on racial quotas that would be insane to use Adam Goldberg's words now obviously there are about a million reasons why a group of friends might be racially homogeneous uh and that have nothing to do whatsoever with racism but in Hollywood the only explanation for the existence of a group of people who are mostly white is that racism occurred somewhere therefore for we apparently need token diversity characters in every single show whether it's fantasy or sci-fi or sitcom like friends and more than that we need to apologize for all previous shows and films that don't align with this new racial Obsession Goldberg's co-star Jennifer Aniston made a similar observation not too long ago quote there's a whole generation of people kids who are now going back to episodes of friends and find them offensive andison Who start as the Rachel Green told AFP in March 2023 there were things that were never uh intentional and others well we should have thought it through but I don't think there was a sensitivity like there is now without addressing specific story lines of characters Aniston 55 noted that it's become tricky for comedians to make certain jokes in the past you could joke about a bigot and have a laugh that was hysterical it was about educating people on how ridiculous people were she said and now we're not allowed to do that everybody needs funny the world needs humor we can't take ourselves too seriously especially United States everyone is far too divided close quote of course the fact that people are divided is describing the symptom not the underlying problem we are divided between people who understand human biology and people who think that a dress can transform a man into a woman we are divided between people who understand that sometimes friend groups happen to be white and people who insist that every friend group must consist of a token minority or two that's really a division between sanity and insanity and the people in the latter group have a lot more power in Hollywood at the moment to restate now we're not allowed to do that jennif FR instead all that's allowed apparently is is garbage like will and Harper a documentary featuring aging aging EXC comedians lecturing us about transgenderism as they drive around randomly for no discernable purpose this is supposedly what progress looks like but you know in reality it's just cowardice and narcissism it's uh the reason we don't have any mainstream comedy films on the level of old school anymore and that is why will frell and all the other comedians who are disavowing their old work because they're too weak to stand up for themselves are today cancell if You' like to see what else I have to say you can access my full show by going to dailywire.com or by going to the Matt wall Show Twitter page hope to see you there God spe