Will Ferrell has admitted that he doesn't "give a s**t" about how he looks, after recently crashing the birthday party of a 100-year-old woman and singing alongside two elderly women, insisting that his bravado is key to his long career.
Will Ferrell
Speaking ot the April comedy issues of Britain's GQ magazine, he explained: "I just don't give a s**t how I look. It's just that reckless abandon, the commitment to bare all. It's kinda like walking on hot coals. It's not that I wasn't afraid to take the first step. Just once I did, the coals were never that hot."
He goes on to concede that he's happy to take big and outrageous risks with his comedy even if it's not to everybody's liking.
"There's a perverse pleasure in knowing that 75-80 per cent of people will get it, but knowing 20-25 per cent will not only think it's not funny, but will be like, 'That's dumb. Why would we do that? I don't get it. We hate that guy!'"
Further to this, Will revealed his humour is entirely based on instinct just like his comedy inspiration and the former star of Saturday Night Live, Steve Martin.
"[He was] this anti-comedian comedian, he'd walk out with an arrow through his head... I just loved that. I read in one of his books that some people go with political comedy... but why not just go with instinct?"
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