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Will Ferrell reveals Christopher Walken told him he ‘ruined his life’ by making him do that famous ‘Cowbell’ skit on SNL 19 years ago
Will Ferrell worked with Christopher Walken on a ‘Cowbell’ skit for Saturday Night Live in the year 2000.
And on Thursday evening the 52-year-old comedian told Jimmy Fallon during his late night show that the 76-year-old character actor is so sick of being reminded of the famous skit that he feels it has done him in.
‘He told me, “You know, you’ve ruined my life,”‘ Will told Jimmy. Will had met up backstage with Christopher during one of his performances several years after the skit hit the air.
A fan favorite: Will Ferrell worked with Christopher Walken on a ‘Cowbell’ skit on Saturday Night Live in the year 2000 and the veteran actor has said it has done him in
Over it: Christopher has been plagued by people reminding him of the hilarious skit. Walken told Ferrell: ‘People during the curtain call bring cowbells and ring them’
Christopher has been plagued by people reminding him of the hilarious skit.
Walken told Ferrell: ‘People during the curtain call bring cowbells and ring them.’
Walken also told the funny man: ‘The other day I went for an Italian food lunch and the waiter asked if I wanted more cowbell with my pasta bolognese.’
Ferrell then told Jimmy: ‘And I think he was really mad at me. He had a little smile, but …’
Story time: Will relayed the story when on Jimmy Fallon’s late night show on Thursday
He’s sick of it: And on Thursday evening the 52-year-old comedian told Jimmy Fallon during his late night show that the 76-year-old character actor is so sick of being reminded of the skit that he feels it has done him in
Ferrell joked to the host: ‘From The Deer Hunter to Pulp Fiction to More Cowbell — that’s all he gets. What are ya gonna do?’
The SNL skit involved a rock band.
Blue Oyster Cult producer Bruce Dickinson instructs fictional band member Gene Frenkle, who was played by Ferrell, to use ‘more cowbell’ during the popular 1976 song Don’t Fear the Reaper.
Also in the band were SNL vets Fallon, Chris Parnell, Chris Kattan and Horatio Sanz.
A hit all over the world: Waken seen in Paris in June for the Champs Elysees Film Festival
Walken then tells the band: ‘Guess what? I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!’
The skit seems to go on forever as it lasts six minutes.
Walken is known, for the most part, as a serious actor.
He won an Oscar in 1979 for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The Deer Hunter opposite Robert De Niro and John Savage.
A seminal film: He won an Oscar in 1979 for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for The Deer Hunter opposite Robert De Niro and John Savage
Another cult classic: Brenda Hillhouse, Walken in the 1994 film Pulp Fiction
The acclaimed star has also appeared in The Dogs of War (1980), The Dead Zone (1983), A View to a Kill (1985), Batman Returns (1992), True Romance (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994), Antz (1998), Vendetta (1999).
And he was also seen in Sleepy Hollow (1999), Joe Dirt (2001), Catch Me If You Can (2002) and Hairspray (2007).
Ferrell returns to host the show for the fifth time this Saturday.
A turn at comedy: In the 2006 film Click with Adam Sandler
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