Category Archives: Television

Will Ferrell, Fake Arms

I wrote this with my pal Amy Ozols a couple days ago. A natural successor to our show’s other Fake Arms pieces, we wrote this as a pre-tape. Thankfully Shoemaker/Gavin/Miles/Jimmy all wanted to do it live. This was definitely one of THOSE bits. You know? Like…a bit that you find to be so utterly hysterical, a bit that is such complete nonsense that it makes you cry from laughing and even though you were part of its creation you don’t really understand what the joke is exactly, and deep down you are convinced that no one else could possibly be as tickled by it as you. We’ve all had bits like that and very often our fears come true because usually those bits make absolutely no sense. This bit makes no sense.

6 Bee Episode 2, Parts 1 and 2

Since Hulu has broken this into 2 parts, I will mention that we filmed the second part of the episode (the music part) on a Saturday, and seeing how Amy Poehler was super pregnant, we tried to make it a short day. In the end we did 41 setups and a 103 takes in 4 hours.