Will Ferrell Acceptance Speech | 2011 Mark Twain Prize
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2019
- The Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor recognizes people who have had an impact on American society in ways similar to the distinguished 19th century novelist and essayist best known as Mark Twain. As a social commentator, satirist and creator of memorable characters, Samuel Clemens was a fearless observer of society, who startled and outraged many while delighting and informing many more with his uncompromising perspective of social injustice and personal folly. He revealed the great truth of humor when he said "against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."
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The inaugural Mark Twain Prize was presented to Richard Pryor during the first annual Kennedy Center Celebration of American Humor, October 20, 1998. The event was created by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Bob Kaminsky, Peter Kaminsky, Mark Krantz, and John Schreiber and is televised annually. The Kennedy Center is grateful to Cappy McGarr for his steadfast support of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor since its inception. Previous recipients of the Mark Twain include Richard Pryor (1998), Jonathan Winters (1999), Carl Reiner (2000), Whoopi Goldberg (2001), Bob Newhart (2002), Lily Tomlin (2003), Lorne Michaels (2004), Steve Martin (2005), Neil Simon (2006), Billy Crystal (2007), George Carlin (2008), Bill Cosby (2009, rescinded in 2018) Tina Fey (2010), Will Ferrell (2011), Ellen DeGeneres (2012), Carol Burnett (2013) Jay Leno (2014), Eddie Murphy (2015), Bill Murray (2016), David Letterman (2017), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (2018), and Dave Chappelle (2019).
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I feel like one of the most unsung qualities of Will's comedic talents is that he rarely breaks character.
I feel like that's literally his most sung quality.
@@randomax909 lmao thank you for saying it
He's a character
What about his most hung quality? 🍆
He's also a good singer. Lol
"If my children touch it or even look at it, I will beat them" 😂
There goes his chance at presenting the Oscars
@@chr1staki at least the Oscar’s this year were still pretty interesting
" Sometimes you get a little lippy" That was an absolute classic
Came back just to watch it
Favorite line, think of it often ❤🤣
She is an auctioneer. It was also an inside joke with them.
8:06 if anyone is looking to jump straight there, hilarious!
@@scuffd3542 nn
I love how commited Vivica is, she's a real trooper!
His wife seems like a jewel
That is racist as hell!!!
Edit: Ohhhh you said jewEL
She is a dream. He is very very lucky
This guy stays in character!
The whole thing was a bit.
, shouted Viveca at her therapist.
Its seriously a rarity to ever find him out of character. Just watch his late night appearances.
I think it was on purpose
I think it's just the way he is
There are those moments that you continually return to. I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this, but he surprises and delights every time because of his amazing delivery as a true master.
Same, it's just comfortable comedy. Mark Twain would dig it.
Truly I even sent this to my sister to cheer her up ❤️
Over 800 times at least
Same. I've watched it randomly many times since it was new. It's smiles delivered. ❤️
60% of the time I come back to watch this every time!!
I have watched this at least a dozen times. You can tell Will and Vivica have something very special. What a great sport she is going along with his jokes and comedy. Will is in a class all by himself when he broke the bust. Not even Vivica knew what was going to happen.
Only a comedic genius like Will Ferrell can turn into a screaming wife abuser on stage and get a tsunami of laughter and applause in response.
sorry some of enjoy relating to our hero’s. sorry “laurence”
get a life
When he was joking about his wife I totally lost it. I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard that I had tears come out.
It was four weeks ago.
My favorite part too. Absolutely hilarious!
Seriously! And she’s such a great sport about it too! ❤️🙈
@@mr.writer4389 Until they get home
They've handed out this prize 11 times since then, and nobody has come even close to making such an unforgettable speech. Will is the top of the heap in the comedy world!
Dave Chappelle..
Julia Louis-Dreyfus did!
@@lyrazim Julia was great, too, they took way too long to give it to her though!!!
Dave Chappelle was stellar as well
u like dat shit? problem with will is that , like this time he tries too hard, it doesnt feel natural, thats comedy for a club not an award , u have to learn that bro
this is still my favourite mark twain acceptance speech
The 11th Caucasian is the perfect joke and satirical slam.
Will Ferrell is my top comedian of all time. Cracks me up still after all these years.
Comedy is and artform 100%. I love will. He's given so much laughter to me and my family. What's more needed than laughter right now (and always)?
The guy deserves the award just for this speech
This is absolutely brilliant, when he goes off on his wife, amazing comedic timing, he let it build up to that, classic, if that stuff didn't make you laugh real hard, nothing will....
How do you top that? The ending with his wife, pure gold.👏👏
The world is too small a stage for Will ferrel. what a human being.
Legendary! To be rewatched for decades for come!
He is so damn silly! I have tears in my eyes!😂😂😂
@Fighting Thumbs bruh you're weird
Probably the best straight faced comedian of all time
Literally every thing he says, you’re wondering „does he really mean the opposite?“ and „what’s coming next?“. Genius.
im not done im not... i just started the speech why would you think im done
Most problems can be solved by people not taking themselves too seriously.
True
When the Music come on and get him off the stage. Was hilarious 😂
" DO YOU HEAR ME?" LOL. HIS POOR WIFE... HILARIOUS
Truly the best acceptance speech in history!
He literally thanked everyone, told us a lil about how he started in comedy, all in character and while been hilarious.
This is why he’s brilliant.
"But first I want to thank my first and second wives" lmaooo
Will is a comedic genius
I love his gracious wife
13 years later and I'm still watching this! I've seen it countless times, but every now and again I come back to it and it still makes me laugh. I love WIll... but am very jealous of him, Vivica is wonderful.
i really love his "DO YOU HEAR ME!!!???"
How does he ALWAYS keep a straight face?
This is a masterpiece
Man..this speech is genius.
Always have loved his humor! Vivica gets his personality and roles with it! lol!! She is a gem to have to deal with that!
I rewatch this every year 😂😂
GENIUS
I love how Will’s wife ‘plays along’ with the angst (yes I know sarcasm) he throws at her!
One of the funniest guys, Ever! Well deserved Will! 👏
Epic.... Absolutely epic!
BRILLIANT!
The best MTP acceptance speech by far... can't stop watching it!
Steve Martin’ s spech is awesome 2!
This is PURE GOLD TELEVISION
For everyone doing the math, that's $100,000 a year. Haha
I did the math immediately after he said it and then I thought about how much money a _single_ billion is for ten minutes, before continuing the Video.
I find it's a lot.
I've watched the other guys many times, its the funniest movie ever, the meet the wife scene, and the electric razor and mannequin hand taped to a golf club, unbelievable
He’s the king of comedy acting
Who else just came from Conan ?
Me😂
Which episode? Podcast?
Incredible
Had to re-watch about 50 times to see all the reactions in the crowd, especially the front row. These people clearly didn't know about the gag right away.
This why I love Will Farrell just a genius
60% of the time Wills funny everytime..
Hey Wayne, more people should have liked this comment. It's gold. I want you to know that.
@@adidevaneumiller436 Thanks👍😂
For clarification i didnt
That doesn't even make sense
its made with real bits of panther
hes so good!!!!
That was such a stacked performance in 10 mins
Nailed it👌🏻
Best acceptance speech ever.
Viveca is so graceful
Some good hearty chucks
He has a very pretty wife. O loved how she played along so well.
Plot twist. His wife gets up and walks out the box.
One of the masters.
Samuel Langhorm Chimmins😂
Mark Twain's real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
Chimmins just makes it so funny. His names are classic
He makes the best characters in movies.
yeah, like Holmes & Watson :/ This guy is generally not funny.
@@infinite8382 That movie could have been better with their American accents. Robinhood once had an American accent.
Absolutely incredible speech by a comedic legend. What a guy 👍🏻. He has been in too many classics to name here, but I remember watching his SNL: Best of DVD's at least once a month back in the day 👍🏻
Also, is it just me or does the guy at 3:09 have either an absolutely treacherous wig on, or did he take a trip to Turkey and when they asked him what he wanted his new hairline to look like, he told them to make him look like hes got an extra small swimming cap on 😂.
Either that or he went to the barber and when they asked him what he wanted them to do, he said can you give me the "I'm fu***d up" special 😂
Best acceptance speech ever
that's love right there what a beautiful Hollywood relationship
Not a huge fan of Will Ferrell , but this is effing brilliant
Roel Wieers if you think this is “effing brilliant”. I’m not sure how you aren’t a fan or Will Ferrell... this is how he is in pretty much every movie, interview, roast, etc. he has ever been part of....
yeah this is pretty classic ferrell...not that funny either in my opinion...
@@matthewmorse3307 This is witty. Usually his
humour is non verbal.
Love Will Ferrel personally, but I hear you. It seems like everyone I know either loves him or hates his style, with little to no wiggle room. Same goes for it's always sunny in Philadelphia for some reason.
Roel Wieers the other guys.
He’s just the best. Ever.
this guy is comedy. truely the best actor of all time...
Baywatch Berlin 🎉 Danke Jakob Lundt für die Erinnerung ❤
The list of this is everywhere lol oh bill... You lost yours? Dam..
still one of the funniest bits on the internet
Mark Twain would have a good chuckle.
Sean Connery watching this: invite this man over for dinner!
Very cool!
What genre of joke do u follow never get bored❤❤😂😂🎉🎉
What standard does the orchestra start to play at 1:40?
don't mind me im back again for my daily dose of laugh
The way the band just immediately stops playing 🤣🤣🤣 I don't know why that cracked me up so much
Not watched by hundreds of people no more. Now thousands of people! 11,359 to be exact.
48,356 as of Jan 9 2020. Dave Chapelle's really blew these things up.
You know they're one of the greats when you're already cracking up at the thumbnail anticipating what they're gonna say
I'm from Elmira NY. Actual hometown of Mark Twain "Samuel Clemens ". Beautiful home. Not sure where Jarvis came from but ok
Qwenn Eiffel died tragically 5 years later scaling the Washington Monument.
I remember reading a comment recently. I was watching a video which showed Will's many visits to some talk show. The commenter wrote that Will was always in character - never came out as himself. I hope he didn't watch this. It would send him over the edge.
One thing and one thing only" That sounded super familiar real fast
Who’s here from Conan O’Brien needs a friend?
Only a true insurance geek thinks about "Business overhead expense disability insurance"!
Always funny Will Ferrell
Hilarious......love Will Ferrell! ❤
Being watched by hundreds of people. 😂😂😂😂 classic
It's sad that he and Adam Mckay had a falling out, but by all accounts seems like that was Adam's fault.
His face...kills me.
Will's wife has the best sense of humor.
I saw this live In 2011 I was so young 😅
Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend anyone? hahahah went looking for this after Conan mentioned it on his podcast w/ guest Luke Wilson 🤣🤣🤣
Me too, lol!
@@JW-bh2ud but i really wanna see what he did to his son at the jumbotron rofl
@@kathleenrasing6818 me too! If you ever find it, post it here :)
You know what they say
"Behind every great man is a lippy woman".
Mark would have loved that one.
He makes good funny movies 75 percentage of the time still. A good actor and comendy
Well said.
Comedy gold
His wife knew she was about to get roasted.