Will Ferrell a Pipe Smoker?

jarit · Feb 4, 2014

Will Ferrell just did an AMA ("Ask Me Anything") on Reddit and posted this photo as a proof that it's really him:

Apparently it's this older photo on the background:

Actors use pipes often as props, but sometimes I wonder if they smoke a pipe privately, as well.

cosmicfolklore · Feb 4, 2014

Have you seen Spoils of Babylon? He put a bunch of pipes in that series. I like Ferrel, but that series is hard for me to watch. If it weren't for the pipes... His character, the writer, was smoking a huge meerschaum when I saw it last time.

jarit · Feb 4, 2014

Haven't seen it yet, but judging from the trailer it looks like a soap spoof with high production value and A-list actors. I'm intrigued!
Someone took a screenshot of him:

bryanf · Feb 4, 2014

The pipe looks well loved. His head looks oversized to me. Maybe it's photoshopped?

smeigs · Feb 4, 2014

that is awesome!! Im a huge will ferrell fan... I would expect nothing less

jarit · Feb 4, 2014

More photos of Mr. Ferrell with a pipe:
As Ron Burgundy (I think):

From a GQ photo shoot:

cosmicfolklore · Feb 4, 2014

The scene above, with him and the meer, is the character he does at the beginning and end of the Spoils of Babylon, where he plays a pretentious writer/director. He wrote the whole series, and he has a scene where two army officers have to tell the family that a character is dead, and the two officers spend the whole obscure scene fiddling, tamping and lighting their pipes over and over. Very odd. He also used to have a bunch of hilarious youtube videos that he made at home, where he has a pipe also. Maybe pipes make people funnier?

cosmicfolklore · Feb 4, 2014

Craig Ferguson is also a pipe smoker. Some people think he's funny also.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3OWT8Ksni4

bentmike · Feb 4, 2014

That scene in Land of the Lost when Ferrell is getting interviewed by Matt Lauer is one of my favorites. Right there on the GMA couch he whips out a big pipe and when he tries to light it Lauer comes at him ready to fight. Hilarious!

dochudson · Feb 4, 2014

wish I could get Zooey Deschanel to smoke my pipe!

blueeyedogre · Feb 4, 2014

Lol Looks like I picked a timely avatar.

crazypipe · Feb 4, 2014

Love the video , funny :rofl:

pylorns · Feb 5, 2014

I actually just started watching the series because of that reddit post. It's sorta funny - but awkward. I like the take on what they are doing though - poking fun at some of those mini-series from the late 70's and 80s. IE - like Winds of War and War and Remembrance - which are pretty damn good series - but from what I understood the author behind those was a bit of a windbag - so this spoof that they are doing is "appropriate" in some cases.

cosmicfolklore · Feb 5, 2014

I've also noticed that they've been breaking absolutely every rule of cinematography. It's also high-brow comedy, in that you have to sort of know some of the ways in which they're breaking rules. But, he's also being very deliberate. The best part is that he is making us aware that he is making fun of his own comedic genius. I'm pretty sure he's a Va/VaPer smoker. : puffy

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edit- I just made all of that up. I figured that if I didn't understand the humor, then he has to be a genius.

fnord · Feb 5, 2014

LMAO!
I love "Spoils of Babylon" and it seems to me that Will Ferrel's characterization is based squarely on the caricature that became Orson Welles.
The entire production is hammy, over the top and geared towards those wretched mini-series some of us endured during the late 70's and 80's.
Tim Robbins ripped the ass out of the first few episodes - the compass exchange was an instant classic - and his death scene had me rolling on the floor.
I'm enjoying the hell out of it.
Fnord

yorkshirepipe · Feb 6, 2014

Will Ferrell is very funny as Ron Burgundy and there's a scene with him in the first Anchorman with a pipe too, glad he's public about it!

krizzose · Feb 6, 2014

Despite the pipe in the photo above, this is a better still photo from Step Brothers:

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