WTF happened to WILL FERRELL??

um but for now we're going to check out will and Harper yay now if you don't know see here if you haven't seen it it's called will and Harper on Netflix it is a documentary that will frell and an ex uh head riter for SNL Harper steel they embark on a uh cross country road trip together after Harper comes out as a trans woman that's right yeah we're going to watch the trailer for this right quick Jesus Christ these guys all right hi there I'm will frell one of the greatest actors in the world a long time ago back when I was at Satur Night Live I met a guy who was hired as a writer the same week I was hired he wrote a bunch of sketches for me and eventually became the head writer of SNL and over the years he became one of my closest friends and then one day I got this email hey Will something I need you to know I'll be transitioning to live as a woman I don't doubt that will is my friend but I'm not Andrew steel anymore it was just whoa I love this country so much I just don't know if it loves me back right now Harper would you want to do a road trip as this new version of yourself and at the same time figure out what this all means to us do you recognize this guy is a this is a Hollywood movie star no that's okay roll up the [Music] window were you a little worried about how to talk to me when I came out to you yeah I'm probably a little nervous there are no ground rolles with friends I'm telling you I invite any friend of mine ask me these questions I am not afraid to talk about there's a question do you think you're a worse driver as a female driver that's the dumbest that's so no no that is so oh [ __ ] you sing but I am yeah oh oh yeah this is my friend Harper how you doing nice to meet you bro hey not a bro though the she but that's okay sorry [Music] this is probably around the age where I started to feel just kind of weird yeah I used to come out to these kind of places before and then I transition and I got a little afraid you know what I'm saying youjo it come out am I not really afraid of these people I'm afraid of hating myself all I want to do is live I [Music] you oh oh oh oh Dunkin Donuts no we've not done one fun thing name one fun thing we've [Music] done what an idiot oh what a loser good yeah um I've been thinking for a few days my best reaction to this trailer and I still don't know I'm watching it live on the show I still don't know all I know is there's a few takeaways from me what the [ __ ] happened to will frell anybody want to pitch in here and and [ __ ] explain to me what happened to Will farell this is Talladega nightes this is Step Brothers this is Wedding Crashers this is old school this is sel this is Harry KY you know Harry K hary if the moon was made of green cheese would you ate it this is a comedy Legend what the [ __ ] happened and then I got to thinking about it me uh here we go I got to thinking about it let's go look at will frell's movies okay let's start let's start with the earlier [ __ ] okay Zoolander was 01 great old school 03 anchor man' 04 I'll even give you elf it's a great movie um Blades of Glory is pretty good I mean [ __ ] go back to Night at the Roxbury pretty good and and then you start getting deeper in time right and what do you what do you see let's see where did I uh he was in awesome powers I didn't know that anyways getting off topic another one semipro funny [ __ ] movies all right now 2022 spirited with him and Ryan Reynolds Daddy's home too everybody if one more [ __ ] person tells me to watch one of these stupid [ __ ] comedy safe comedies I'm going to kick them in their teeth Euro Vision Song Contest the Eurovision was [ __ ] weird of course you were a part of that get hard another safe comedy I mean where where's the where's the movies at you know I'm I'm looking I'm looking but I'm not finding because he hasn't done a funny [ __ ] movie in over a decade he really ain't [ __ ] he's slowly turning into an old lady even in the documentary in in the [ __ ] preview we just watched when he pulls up to and I'm going to get to that I'm going to get to the meat of the documentary but I just want to premise this by letting you know how unfunny these these Stars these comedians have become he he shows up to pick up uh Harper and gets out of the car of course he's fully gray now same haircut fully gray gets out of the car with with like one of those neck pillows like he's about to fly like an old lady flying he has a little thermos of of probably some tea or soup he's an old lady now look I'll say this first before I obliterate at this [ __ ] trailer I'll say this first I could see look if you're on the left I'll say the left for the sake of the conversation but if you're on the side of woke and progressiveness and you think that becoming trans is the most Ultra Brave thing you can do or coming out as gay or or nonbinary or gender fluid fluid whatever it is pansexual asexual t- seexual P seexual whatever it is if you think that's the bravest thing that a human being can do then this is the most epic thing piece of production to come out ever I mean this is going to be groundbreaking thought-provoking tear jerking I mean this is so I get that I get it and of course you know in the in the trailer let's break this trailer down that's probably the best way to go about this let's break this down so we'll go back to the beginning here was at Satur Night Live I met a guy who was hired as a writer the same week I was hired a bunch of sketches for me and old and over the years years he became one of my closest friends and then one day I got this email hey Will something I need you to know I'll be transitioning to live as a woman right there what you get a you get a letter like that from a from a close close friend of yours what's your reaction I'm curious I'm trying to think of what mine would be on spot realistically would I stop being friends with this person I I doubt it but you kind of here's the thing I live in the real world I live in reality I know YouTube's going to [ __ ] hate this sorry and this clip will make it to YouTube so I'm going to try to play it as safe as possible but in my in my reality you're allow see lefties are allowed to have their truth my in my truth my reality there there isn't any transgendered people there's people that pretend people that get surgeries done to be what they want to be and hey more power to you but in my reality you're subject to ridicule I know you want to normalize it and make it not so but it will always be so because it's unnatural and that's fact I'm not that's not even really my opinion it is an unnatural thing if you're cool with that great but hey if you're a friend of mine if you're a close close friend like that and you email me which is which is weird if you're if we're close friends and you're emailing me if you're a best friend of mine and you're listening to this I know one that is listen don't ever email me I will block you I'll report you as spam don't email me call me [ __ ] especially if it's something that's lifechanging like turning into a broad and now now see as a man let me let me Swig the the the te real quick I got a new liquid death uh tea flavor kind of tastes like old toilet water it's decent though if you're a close close friend of mine and you you call me if you're a man to let me point this out if you're a man there is no there is no reason why you should want to be a woman being a woman sucks I'm married to one I've been with plenty I have women in my family being a woman kind of blows it really kind of blows you guys have way more [ __ ] to go through than we do mentally you guys are train wrecks beautiful and we love you but you're train wrecks and it's part of what makes you special watching you deal with the train wreck that is your brains and the way that your brains are wired it's beautiful you guys are amazing but crazy nonetheless why would a man ever want to transition into a woman unless they want to take [ __ ] in their butt the only reason and it's coming out as gay is it doesn't have the same weight as it used to now the equivalent the equivalency of that weight to coming out as trans is or to coming out as gay is now coming out as trans that's the new Brave thing to do if you're a guy and you in in 2024 and you come out as gay I'm going to be like yeah whatever most people are going to be yeah okay okay I mean you like [ __ ] your ass that's fine you know that's fine we'll get two beds we're not going to ever share wake up with a dick in me but that's fine but trans that's that's the thing now that's going to make you go oh my God you're so brave you're so brave and you know anyways look as a as a close close friend I got to stop before YouTube Yanks my channel down for something as a close close friend you're putting me in a position if if if a close friend like this were to reach out to me with this with this transition news news you would be putting me in a position to make to make a uh to make a hard call you know of course in in the leftwing brain it's like why would you even think twice about staying friends with this person if they're actually important to you well because my life's important to me and you're going to single-handedly affect my life with your decision- making it almost reminds me of me not wanting to get a vaccine and how my decision making affects everybody else and know well that's Health it's different well health includes mental stuff does it not isn't that what I'm told all the time how crazy and out of control and how how aware we need to be about mental health what about me it's always got to be about you when you're transitioning every [ __ ] you know especially if you're famous every camera is going to be on you everybody's going to want to talk to you it's all about you what about me you know if you're will phell what what about what about you how's your life of course if you're famous in Hollywood having trans friends are fine hell it'll probably help your career but in in my truth in my reality if one of my friends my deepest friends was to come out to me as a trans person me remaining as close to you as I was first of all isn't possible because here's the thing you can't have your cake and eat it too if you transition to be a woman and you you you want to be treated as a woman right that's the point you want me to treat you as a woman well I am not as close friends with women as I am men naturally I my closest friends are not women they are men because we relate to each other I shouldn't have to explain that so if one of my closest guy friends transitions into a woman I'm really having to spell this out because people that are going to be mad at me need this SP spelled out for them if you transition into a woman our friendship is now altered forever I don't care what a documentary says that's the reality that's the fact for normal people now you're a woman so now we are not as close close of friends just off the rip we are not as close of friends cuz now we don't have as much in common as I thought we did do I hate you no am I going to dislike you over that decision no I don't care because that's your choice but your choice is going to come with consequences that you need to be prepared to deal with period and again it's not disrespect it's not hatred it's real I'm going to remain very very close with the other guy friends that I have and you and I are just going to remain friends will we talk as much probably not cuz you're going to act like a woman you're going to want to be treated like a woman I don't talk to other women that much I am married okay and when I wasn't married no offense ladies talking to you there's usually an endgame that I shouldn't have to spell out for you sure I I have females in my life that I am friends with they can call me they can ask me for advice vice versa but you're still women I'm still a man we don't have a lot in common we can pretend and we can bring up [ __ ] that we have in common and and try to make a case for how similar we are but we're not we're not and if you are a woman if you transition into being a woman and you want to be treated as such well the whole dynamic of our friendship just changed the whole dynamic of your friendship with anyone just changed and you should be okay with that that's equality right 30 seconds into this trailer and that's I've already gone off the [ __ ] hinges let's let's play this I don't doubt that will is my friend but I'm not Andrew steel anymore it was just whoa I love this country so much I just don't know if it loves me back right now Harper would you want to do a road trip as this new version of yourself and at the same time figure out what this all means to us okay okay look with the [ __ ] [ __ ] music stop stop uh just stop look you want to take a road trip now I think it's brilliant I think it's brilliant will frell deciding to do this documentary I know sounds like I hate it sounds like I hate the idea again life is not black and white it's gray I I'm never going to watch this let me be let me be absolutely clear here I almost said queer let me be let me be absolutely queer here let me be straight with you I will never watch this I have no intention to watch this if you watch it don't even tell me about it I don't care but I think it's a brilliant idea in today's climate today's Hollywood today's culture this documentary is a little groundbreaking sure I understand and for will phell hey again with the Boost of your career CU godamn you need it I mean I he could probably just continue just being will frell and and that's it just float away Into Obscurity when when new generations don't even know who the [ __ ] you are that was my ass but with that being said the premise the the the pseudo deep psychological premise is what bothers me let's take a road trip with this new you here's the problem and I Know It kind of contradicts what I was just saying but the reality is it's still you what do there is no new you if I leave my house and I decide I want to have a new walk today can you do that can you just change your walk I'm gonna walk different today I'm going to I'm going to place my arms differently when I'm walking I'm going to have my shoulders a little more relaxed I walk like a chimpanzee as it is so what if I didn't what if I just left and decid I'm still me I just change something you are still you you're just dressing like abroad acting like a broad and and and it's not even the you're acting like an old broad that's even worse you just went from a basic white dude with a legendary SNL career because I'll give him that I mean a headwriter for the Golden Era of Saturday Night Live I mean we're not talking that new age [ __ ] they're pedaling out right now no this was the golden years and Brilliant amazing talented but you go from that to a to what looks like a 60-year-old white woman what what what is your goal what are you trying to accomplish it's a little late that's another point you doing this now hey you know be happy but but again subject to ridicule that's America that's life why now why now don't tell me you're getting laid as a dude I'm not even talking about as a chick as a chick are you getting laid is he postop does he have a penis I don't like that I'm having to scream does he have a penis on my program but I got to know is there a hole down there maybe I'm curious like maybe I'm curious of the mental gymnastics with trans people I don't really understand it like if you're getting if you're transitioning young like in your 20s or something I know I can see like you're trying to live the rest of your life as something you feel like you are and you're going to reap benefits probably of of that cuz people will [ __ ] you if you're a dude and you turn and you transition into a cheick and you go full you know full posttop and everything dudes will [ __ ] you there's a lot of dudes out there trust me dudes will [ __ ] you but at his age how old is he who is that this Harper steel how old is Harper steel let's find out um yeah Harper steel is of course the first thing to pop up Harper steel is I guess that's the same name too he's not changing that um where's the age Harper steel age can can anybody just tell me the [ __ ] age [ __ ] I hate the internet I [ __ ] hate the internet here's a picture of uh transitioned Harper steel you look atrocious dude you don't look good so again I ask what was the point of all this what was the point let's see I don't understand if you're going to look like Rocky Horror from from like why you know Rocky Horror Picture Show that's what that's what I'm looking at right now it's hard to be around that I would imagine even for someone like will farell that doesn't care and and is all about it you know when was he born 1961 do some quick math 63 years old you're 60 dude all right this is where YouTube's going to lose me if you're 63 years old and you are transitioning into another gender it's time to retire right it's time to phone it in pick up a hobby he might pick up a hobby now I'm looking at the picture of him as a woman I mean you pick up knitting I mean what the [ __ ] that's someone's Nana dude like again what is the benefit of this I don't understand you recognize this guy is a this is a Hollywood movie star no that's okay roll up the window were you a little worried about how to talk to me when I came out to you yeah probably a little nervous there are no ground rolls with friends I'm telling you I invite any friend of mine ask me these questions I am not afraid and talk about here's a question do you think you're a worst driver as a female driver that's the dumbest that's so no no that is oh [ __ ] you sing but I am yeah oh [Applause] [Music] you know Pard of me so embarrassing everything about this part of me wants to go yeah that was actually a pretty funny joke yes it is but it's only funny because you're saying it to your trans friend it's a little edgy but for will frell not that funny if my wife made that joke I'd be like Ah that's funny will [ __ ] Ferell that's the best and they put that in the trailer that means that's like a line of the day put that in the movie trailer like we're supposed to go see it's a comedy what a dynamic duo oh yeah this is my friend Harper how you doing nice to meet you bro hey not a bro though the Sheep but that's okay sorry in there's one [ __ ] idiot there's one one they got to put that in the trailer too to signify the CIS white male at the bar who's going to misgender you the one idiot guy at the bar who sees who sees what's clearly a 60-year-old woman I mean when you're younger in trans it gets a little more obvious cuz younger people have more definitive features right young good-look people take a young good-look dude and he transitions to a chick it's like yeah I can see your jawline like I know I can see your Adams Apple I know what's happening here you're not fooling anybody it's a it's a spectacle but if you're 63 years old you're transitioning to just another old person I don't care what gender you pick just another old person so if I'm a dude if you're a dude at a bar and you walk up to this and you see will farell and you see and by the way I would say hello you kidding me it's will frell I'm not oblivious I want the picture I want to hear him say you don't say that like I want to you know I get it but if you're going to go up there and you see will farell with sitting with with this old bag of bones I'm not going to say bro that's that looks like an old woman who's the lady that's what you say but of course they found the one jackass who's going to go hey bro so will FR go not a bro like that's the awkward that's what I don't like that's the awkward humor that can just go [ __ ] itself not a bro like are you you to you can't go yo she's a a woman no you got to make it weirdly awkward funny which it's not but of course they had to put that in the trailer because they got to show the entire emotional Arc that comes with being a transperson including the bigotry of misgendering this is probably around the age where I started to feel just kind of weird yeah I used to come out to these kind of places before and then I Dre this and and I got a little afraid you know what I'm saying youjo it out so he's at a like stock car racing track like a dirt track and of course he's like I used to come to this stuff all the time now that I've transition I'm scared what are you scared of what do you think happens I got to know like and not even just this person but like do trans people really do feel like if they go to like a southern driven area or like a more conservative area which is most of the [ __ ] country so good luck with that that way you're just going to be stoned to death I don't understand what you think like like come come out to where I live in Georgia and like all the Republicans are going to gather up and and sacrifice you to the trans Gods like what do you think is going to happen at a racetrack and of course they got to do the opposite of what they just did they got to flip the coin now and show you the other white people that are super accepting well if you enjoy it come out did you need to say that is this what you need to hear no you just want to sit in the back in the shadows where no one can even [ __ ] see you and drink your Bud Light I'm not really afraid of these people I'm afraid of hating myself all I want to do is [Music] live [Music] you oh oh oh oh Dunkin Donuts no we've not done one fun thing name one fun thing we've done a little funny I bet will frell is probably funny to be out and about with but like and here's the thing um I say that a lot don't I here's the thing I do it's do I hate that a transitioned Harper steel and Will farell are traveling the country and and having a great time they're laughing they're crying they're having fun I think it's great I really do more people should do that have a good time what bothers me is you made it into a documentary like you're like you're creating some narrative and then solving said narrative in the documentary it's it's just I guess there was a uh 5 minute Hollywood Reporter interview where we at on the podcast guys we're an hour and 5 I'll play this and then we will uh get the [ __ ] out of here it was extraordinary that we could get all of our it was extraordinary that we could get all of our friends to come and and participate I have more friend than that no one's debating we name the those who turned it yeah we one of the things that got cut out of the documentary we counted how many friends each each had okay do you remember like about Harper has 420 friends yes yes and uh will I have 30 will has about 30 a lot of acquaintances Hollywood Reporter I think we both I'll speak for Harper please please I'll do some man playing I love to speak for Harper yes uh no I think we both feel fortunate that we met a group of people throughout our careers early on continue to meet people who are who are just quality individuals who are um not only good and funny at what they do but also just you know a little bit of luck of the draw um but maybe because we're so great we draw those people to us that's why it is and I yeah I just think the comedy world breeds its own um little inner groups you know people who speak the same kind of joke language and the same kind of Comedy language and then you get to know the ones that fit with your sensibility and it is an Island of Misfit Toys so I think you know you do kind of get drawn to each other and then uh and the friendships become that much closer because of the I remember Colin Quinn once we were I was my first year at Saturday Night Live and he looks out around the room and goes look it's a room full of class clowns yes so all of us were the same person getting to this place and so I think I feel super fortunate to have come upon this group of people the conception of the whole discussion for some reason in my head boring was a documentary and uh show me how you suck a guys Co the last time I'm going to ask you if I don't want to exploit our friendship but this could I think be just a wonderful way for us to explore this topic obviously for for me to learn uh ask all the questions that I have uh about what you're going through um and why are you gay who you are have you changed and I think we eventually landed on the same square that if we actually could convince someone to film it but maybe it would be something that people would watch and it would just is this going to go like going anywhere show off the fact that two people can have a conversation about this I had two reasons for doing it one of was it's kind of selfish it was only my second year transition and I she was very badly raped you see sort of dissipate some of the nervousness around it walking around with a big shot like well was going to be helpful to me thank you um yes that's the Last of Me we had both knowingly and unknowingly made lists of things we wanted to ask each other so those moments were like here's here's something I'm G to ask you that that was like me checking the next thing on on my little black notebook I had with me and Harper was doing the same yeah it's 17 days it's 16 hours a day it's over 250 hours of footage that was C down to less than two hours scratch Canyon which Speaking kind of an amazing cinematic moment but we come across the couple is it the therapist yes who's a retired therapist who uh wants to ask transition in La Harper actually gets to help her uh kind of work through some issues that that uh that she back in her practice felt ill equipped to advise someone who was what a disaster this this Harper steel is I fought to be decent about this but I'm watching this interview and and I'm I'm looking at it a before picture as well and again I I go back to my point of what is the point of this cuz you look like a [ __ ] disaster like you're not a lot of a lot of dudes out there transition to feel pretty to feel beautiful to feel like women cuz we are not pretty and beautiful we are men we are slobs but this this is not that this is a a disaster a pile of [ __ ] I just go through the same situation and that was a that was such a just powerful full circle moment that happened obviously you know on the spot what is a movie classic movie or television show that you have It's a Wonderful Life pretended to have seen have you ever seen anything things I've done no never all right next I had a really embarrassing moment when uh Henry Henry white Henry Hill Henry Hill Henry Hill someone was talking about how they were going as Henry Hill for hallowen no no the the oh oh Hank Hank Hill no Henry the the the meth show oh everyone's favorite show of all time Breaking Bad Breaking Bad John Carlo was here earlier wait but who's Henry Hill Henry White Walter White see I've never seen breaking B I almost with Henry Hill do you hear how mundane and and boring these quote unquote entertainers have become it's funnier to listen to anyone else talk than these people I said it but they're they're too famous that's what the problem is well that's that that's will and Harper um I might force myself to watch and review this when does it come out September 27th this month okay I might watch I might force myself to sit through this or at least parts of it just to have a nice little review for you guys cuz what a [ __ ] train wreck and it just seems dull like how many people out there want to watch this like who wants to watch okay so you're trans great we're all happy for you you're you look like a [ __ ] old bag but here's the thing who wants to watch that in entirety you two on a road trip wow what a hoot that must be