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Please, for the love of merciful God, will those of you who are putting Will Farrell in the same company as Belushi, Ackroyd, Chase, Murphy, Radner, Carvey, Hartman etc. JUST STOP!
Go and rent the SNL compilation DVDs and just...compare. Did Will Ferrell ever do ANYTHING as inspired as Murphy's "Mister Robinson's Neighborhood"? As creative as Belushi's "impression" of Beethoven morphing into Ray Charles?? As hysterically funny as Carvey's "Church Lady"?? I mean, ever??? Hasn't he just been loud and obnoxious, and stuck around and kissed Lorne Michael's ass enough to get cast in film after film owing to the latter's influence in the biz? (which is huge, by the way) Will Ferrell has a big career for the same reason Harry Shearer has a small one - Lorne Michael's influence. Ferrell is his buddy, Shearer is his chief critic. End of story.
