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Some Ferrell Audiences Unhappy About Getting Dick Rolled

2009_02_ferrell.jpg Six audience members have gotten up and walked out of the recently opened one-man show starring Will Ferrell, "You're Welcome America. A Final Night with George W. Bush." The moment in which some Broadway theater goers have been heading for the exits is when the backdrop of the stage is covered by a giant projection of a photo of the former president's penis. Ferrell's longtime creative cohort and director of the show, Adam McKay, told the Times, “It’s not the president’s penis, as far as I know...It’s an anonymous but age-appropriate public domain Internet penis. We went on the Web and got a penis." McKay says that it is "the one moment that is followed by people walking out.” He and Ferrell had some concerns that they could run into legal trouble with the president or the owner of the unit for using the image, but felt that it was important enough to keep in the show because to stay consistent with Bush's image because he says, “He is a frat boy, a big party guy, and you could imagine him doing this."

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  • snickerdoodle

    Is this for real? People are actually horrified and walking out of a show because they saw a pee-pee???



    I hope these people don't plan on seeing Equus otherwise they might die of a heart attack or worse, protest Broadway for their being victimized and traumatized by the ghastly sight of a human body part.

  • Nick S

    I'd support them if it had something to do with the artistic vision for the show, but "He is a frat boy, a big party guy, and you could imagine him doing this" exposes it as a stupid publicity stunt done for no real reason but to shock.

  • zodak

    what's sad is that ferrell is considered broadway material.

  • robingee

    That wouldn't play in Branson!

  • hellogreg

    Nation of prudes is right. How is this more offensive than hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi citizens?

  • Gothamist_Cynic

    Nation of prudes!

  • cucarachita

    It's not like it was a porn shot. It was a penis. You can see a penis in an encyclopedia or in a medical book.



    Plus, we all know about penises. Our dads have them, our brothers have them, our boyfriends have them, our friends have them, if we're a man, we have them. What's the big deal? They're kind of handy for keeping the earth populated.



    I'm suspicious of anyone who can't look at a penis without getting offended.

  • thefacts

    Spoken like a true prick.

  • Rocknrope

    Mature.

  • ides_of_march

    Typical juvenile nonsense that passes for wit and political commentary in left-wing circles.



    I give the people who walked out credit, but then again they knew it was a Will Ferrell show, not exactly an intellectual giant.

  • dwntwnpal

    Maybrick2001



    Hmmm....how come nobody has a play with Bill Clinton in it flashing a dick??? Oh...that's right....Hillary has the dick!



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    Hahaha nice. My friend went to see the show four times. I have yet to go. Sounds pretty entertaining. Sad though that it's suck a blatant attack on one person.

  • cucarachita

    Well, he did do everything-- and I mean EVERYTHING -- he could to be that one person. You get what you pay for!

  • Maybrick2001

    Hmmm....how come nobody has a play with Bill Clinton in it flashing a dick??? Oh...that's right....Hillary has the dick!

  • thefacts

    Will Farrel is a dick. The man is not funny. It shows how SNL has degenerated for this guy even to get hired. He couldn't hold the cue cards for Belushi, Ackroyd, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, etc.

  • cucarachita

    Oh, go flap your dentures in the supermarket, gramps!

  • JacqueMehoff

    "wink"

  • NannyState

    It was probably Will Farrell's penis.

  • airtech1

    Ferrell should next do a one-man show about Madoff's ponzi scheme. He certainly has the real-life research and experience: as the unfunniest of the unfunny who scammed Hollywood studios into investing $20 million/per for his drivel. He tops Bush in the irrelevancy quotient.

  • babyhitler

    What are you talking about? the dude WAS funny on SNL. His bush is pretty good. Sure, most of his movies are bad but there are like hundreds of other comics that suck a whole lot more. Adam Sandler, Dane Cook, Eddie Murphy, Steve Carrell, Mike Myers, Seth Green, Seth Rogen, Steve martin, etc. They all Suck to me! Sure they may have a funny bit or two but they are really overpaid. The worst offenders are dudes like Eddie Murphy who used to be hilarious but sold out for the PG-13 money. Chris Rock is the funniest stand up comedian on the planet but his movies are huge polished turds.

  • rdsizzle

    I find Will Farrell to almost always have hillarious characters in movies even if the movie itself sucks. He was funny in SNL altough I "resisted" it for a while because im from an older generation. Yes Chris Rock is the funniest stand up today but still those Eddy Murphy originals are the best. Eddy made a few good movies early on but agreed that now they absoulutly suck.



    About this story...People go to a Will Farrell show and walk about because they are offended?

  • babyhitler

    this is definitely not as offensive when mccay and ferrell made gang rape a joke on Funnyordie.com

  • Future Taliban

    It's redundant. GW Bush IS a penis.

  • matthew

    babies.

  • Quenepa

    Why is this show even on? Bush is no longer relevant and all most of us want to do is forget him although we have to dig ourselves out of the malaise his administration left us in.

  • Rocknrope

    That's the point, genius.

  • Future Taliban

    Au contraire mon ami; We need to REMEMBER him and all the damage that he did to our country in the same way that Jews remember Adolf Hitler & Nazism. Then we need to hound him and his ubergruppenfuhrers relentlessly like Simon Weisenthal would have until he's jailed or hung.



    I'm partial to HUNG.

  • effinclassy

    People are walking out because they saw a photograph of a penis?

  • pandarelated

    it's will ferrell.. you go to a will ferrell show, and your offended by a penis? the guy has is daugther yell and curse and him, and posts it on the web. anyways.. yeah free press.

  • samarks

    People should know if they don't want to see a dick, they shouldn't go to a Will Ferrell show.

  • slappy

    I mean, c'mon. How out of touch can you be to think its OK or "important to the show" to do that. Its the cluelessness of the gesture, not the big bad penis that's offensive.

  • Ace

    Disgusting. I would have walked out too.

  • Rocknrope

    Yeah, the human body is so disgusting.

  • Ace

    What would happen if there were young children in the audience? It's the same as if you were walking down the street with your family and a flasher exposed himself. I thought there were laws to protect children from this sort of thing. McKay should find another line of work.

  • babyfishmouth

    Who would bring young children to this type of show?

  • Ace

    Probably the parents. But regardless, you don't have to be a child to be offended by this. Surely there were many in the audience who felt uncomfortable with the image. It's obscene and it's lewd. What has happened to modesty and morality on Broadway? and Hollywood?

  • Papercutninja

    Tell us what theatre is like in Oklahoma! I bet that good ol' age and moral appropriate milquetoast is more to your liking. How about instead of comedy, you should go see what ever family-friendly dreck Steve Martin is doing these days.

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