Will.
National-- national treasure right here.
Come on.
[AUDIENCE CHEERING]
Oh, man.
It's Jennifer Aniston.
[CHEERING]
Right?
Will Ferrell.
It's Will Ferrell.
[AUDIENCE CHEERING]
Do the Starbucks Starbox people know they will not be let out?
Ever.
OK.
Yeah, OK.
They're now sort of like, you know--
No, it's not a good thing!
You have to stay in the box.
But they'll give you a lifetime limit of coffee.
All the coffee you want.
Yes, yes, yes.
All the chai lattes you want.
Oh.
They're gonna be-- and they'll be bouncing off walls.
They're gonna be jacked.
Yeah.
And in that little room.
Pumpkin spice--
Ooh, it's gonna get messy in there.
Yup, yup.
[BOTH SIGHING]
1999, that's the first time we met.
That's right.
On "SNL."
You came to host.
I hosted "SNL."
You hosted-- did you have fun?
I-- did I have fun?
I had the best time ever.
Cause I know we were--
We could not-- I could not--
Oh, look at that!
Yes!
Oh, oh, it's the herpes medication.
[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]
I couldn't-- that was that skit.
Look how serious I am.
Look at you.
I'm a serious businessperson.
Between making me laugh-- you always made me break
and you always broke.
And I don't know if you did that to make me break or--
No, I'm just a bad actor.
[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]
Oh.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Interesting.
But I remember being very nervous to meet you
and you were so nice to our cast.
And I had grown my hair out and cut it in a Rachel.
Yes!
That's right.
You were like, that does not look good on a man.
But you told me gently.
Very sweetly.
I did.
I always do, but I always do it privately.
Right, right.
I gave you-- did a solid.
You didn't embarrass me.
Yeah, yeah.
That was fun.
That was a good time.
Yeah, that was fun.
You're-- you've been--
that's-- that was a long-- so that means--
That was--
You were about to-- wait, you're about to-- first of all,
congratulations, you're about to celebrate your 20th wedding
anniversary?
[AUDIENCE CHEERING, APPLAUDING]
Yes!
So that was--
In August.
Oh, August, you got a couple months to screw this up.
Yeah, I was gonna say, Viveca, look out.
Oh, Viveca.
I might go crazy.
[LAUGHING]
Well, you guys have a-- now, your wife is--
Yeah.
Oh, look at her!
I know, isn't she beautiful?
She's Swedish.
I don't know how that happened.
Look at that.
I don't know how or why she picked me, but--
Because she love--
I do.
I get it.
It's her burden to bear.
I think it has something to do, listen,
I heard a little bit about--
because you know I hear things.
Right.
You hear-- right.
Yeah.
You hear a lot of things.
I hear a lot of things, especially at this show.
Yes.
That you do this-- you have a holiday tradition.
Yes.
My wife is Swedish.
Yes.
We do a big Swedish Christmas party.
What does that look like?
Explain this tradition.
And I play-- that's me.
That's you?
That's Tomten, Swedish Santa.
What do you call him?
Tomten.
Tomten?
And he wears a very stylish tunic with a red piece of yarn.
That's a belt?
A belt and Tomten--
so we have a party for 75 to 100 people, including their kids.
Wow!
And we get names of all the kids and Tomten makes an appearance
and gives a present to each kid.
So you have to come up in front of Tomten.
Now, Tomten doesn't just hand you your gift.
You have to earn it.
Uh-oh.
Yeah.
This is intense.
It's intense.
Are they traumatized by this or no?
It's intense for me!
Yes.
It's like a half-hour improv session, yeah.
[LAUGHING]
I'm like, OK, little Bobby, what, speaks Spanish, OK.
Count to five in Spanish.
Here we go.
And yeah, so I put him through their paces.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And they're really nervous, but they are so
excited when they earn their--
They feel incentivized.
--present.
And if they can't, if they're too nervous to do anything,
I just make them do five push-ups.
[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]
Have you ever turned a child away?
For fitness.
No, Tomten never--
Never.
--turns a child away, which is an old saying in Swedish.
[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]
It's a classic saying.
This is amazing.
Yes.
So we do that every year.
And that's elective.
That's a tradition.
And did you come up with that name?
No, no, that's--
Oh, that's the name!
Oh!
So we--
It's like Kris Kringle.
Next Christmas, if you go to Sweden--
OK.
Are you inviting me?
Or is that--
Let's do it.
OK.
Yeah.
So when we go to Stockholm--
Yes.
--and we'll just-- you can impress people by asking,
when does Tomten arrive?
Oh, I can't wait.
I'm gonna do that.
I'm gonna impress so many people in Stockholm.
Not really.
Well, we'll see.
You probably won't, but--
Listen, today is your son's birthday.
Yes.
Was it--
Axel.
--today?
Today.
Axel?
Axel is 10 years old.
[AUDIENCE CHEERING]
Oh!
Axel, what a great name!
How many-- you have three boys?
We have three boys--
Three boys.
Axel--
--Mattias--
--and Magnus.
Magnus.
All very common names.
Yes.
By the way, oh my gosh.
But they're much bigger now.
Look how cute!
So Axel turned 10.
The middle guy, Mattias, turned 13 in December.
Oh boy!
And Magnus is about to--
13, you--
--turn 16 and start driving.
It's a house of three boys.
Three boys.
What is that like?
So as a parent of three boys--
OK, cause that's a lot of--
--it's a lot of chaos.
Yeah.
And all parenting rules go completely out the window.
You go from like, all the things you read about, like conflict
resolution, I'm sorry that your feelings are
hurt and interesting, I hear what you're saying.
However, within five minutes, like, get upstairs now
and brush your teeth!
Shut up, OK?
I don't care.
Why?
Because I said so.
[AUDIENCE LAUGHING, CHEERING]
It's like you become your parents.
Yes.
Even though I don't know if my parents ever
told me to shut up.
I try not to say that.
Well, let's not-- well.
It's like running a small correctional facility.
[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]
I want to get high-powered water cannons installed so I can
just--
Hose 'em.
Yeah.
Just down.
1,600 pounds of pressure, just up against the wall.
Right, right, right, right.
Yeah.
I get that.
Right.
Well, we'll talk more about how you
want to raise your children.
God, that's gonna be a--
This is amazing.
--crazy engineering feat.
We're gonna have more with Will Ferrell
when we get back right after this.
[AUDIENCE CHEERING]
I love this movie!
I love this movie.
"Downhill," OK, Will, tell us what this movie is about.
This is a movie,
[LAUGHING]
OK, sorry.
No, this movie--
I don't--
Don't you hate this part?
You're making me laugh.
I'm sorry.
Yes.
That's what we do, though.
No, this is a movie-- this is actually
a remake of a Swedish movie that was called "Force Majeure."
Sure.
Everyone's laughing.
No, I'm being serious.
He's being serious.
Which is-- it's a story about a family who
go on a ski trip in the Alps, trying to kinda
find some more down time, family time together.
And on their first day of skiing,
an avalanche hits in which Julia goes to protect the family
and I grab my cellphone and leave.
Oh.
Only to find out that it was just a practice one,
it was just a very close call, and that decision
on Pete's part kinda shades the rest of the trip.
Yeah.
Yes.
And it's a comedy that also takes
some turns and gets very, very serious, very real, yeah, very
heartfelt about where they stand with their relationship.
Yup.
Do you really-- how well do you know your partner?
Right.
Kind of explores all of that stuff.
Yeah.
[ANDY SPEAKING OFFSCREEN]
Goddammit.
Oh!
And I was about to say your hair is hitting the mic,
but I shouldn't--
I-- because I love audio stuff.
There's no boom?
No.
Did you hear anything that Will Ferrell just said?
Oh, my audio was great.
[AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING]
That's why he's the pro, guys.
So Will--
I just wanna make sure-- there we go.
[LAUGHING]
Yeah, so it takes some very interesting turns.
It does.
It really-- literally.
But it was-- it literally does.
Well, you do on skis.
Oh, and on skis.
I'm just throwing in a ski thing.
You've never met--
I mean, you've never worked with Julia,
but you've also never met her?
We-- the first time we met was sitting down
to talk about doing this movie.
How is that possible?
I don't know.
You two?
Yeah.
Two of the most brilliant comedians--
Well, you know about our feud we had, right?
Oh.
Yeah.
That's right.
Right, I won't bring that up here.
Right.
It's OK.
No, it was just one of those things
where people think that we should have--
You have met.
I know.
--known each other and worked together.
But--
Because people think actors are in a sort of a club.
Exactly.
Right, and everybody knows each other.
Right.
How-- was that the most beautiful place
to shoot a film?
Because it looked like it was paradise.
We shot completely on location in Austria,
and it just is one of the more beautiful places ever.
And you're going to think a lot of the movie is CGI
but it's all--
All you.
--this breathtaking scenery.
And we stayed in two resort towns,
one which is called Fiss--
Fist?
Fiss, F-I-S-S, look it up.
Not Fist.
No.
Fiss.
Yeah, yeah.
No, no.
Fiss, not Fist.
That's the other town.
[CLEARING THROAT]
They like it.
Oh.
And then the second-- and that's a very family-friendly ski
resort.
And then we-- the other town we filmed in
is called Ischgl, which is known as the Ibiza of the Alps.
Uh-oh.
And they have a sign when you drive into the town that
says, "Welcome to Ischgl.
Relax if you can."
[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]
What?
That's--
And it's just this crazy party town on the side of a mountain.
And people race down at 3:30 in the afternoon
to hit the bars at 4:00 PM, and from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM,
it's apres ski and people get hammered.
[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]
Yes.
And it's until 7:00.
And it's till 7:00!
Till 7:00 PM.
And then, in their ski boots--
[STOMPING]
[LAUGHING]
Oh, gosh.
--go to eat dinner.
Oh, that's--
But it's the-- it was the most bizarre place ever.
Yeah.
But what happened--
And that's where I invited my wife to come visit me.
Right there?
Yeah, yeah.
That's good.
No joke.
No, I wouldn't--
She was like, why are we here?
I'm like, I'm sorry, I should have told--
Honey, this is fun.
This is Ischgl.
Relax if you can.
[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]
Yeah, yeah.
Great.
So there's another role that I heard
about is that your sons are playing-- are into sports now?
They're all playing sports, a lot of soccer.
A lot of soccer and you are-- you've elected to-- you--
Well--
Well, how does that work?
I think you're a ref?
In youth soccer-- in AYSO soccer,
a lot of the parents have to get volunteer points, and you--
Have to?
You have to.
You have to volunteer referee.
And so a lot of times I have to--
[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]
I have wear that.
Now that's amazing.
Come on.
How cute.
Look at that.
Look at that little outfit.
I am ready to call offside at any time.
[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]
And you're just going, Fiss!
Fiss!
But I pull the socks up.
And I usually get through half a game
before one of the kids on an opposing team is like,
are you the elf?
[AUDIENCE LAUGHING, APPLAUDING]
What are you doing here?
But they're in the middle of a game
and they'll stop and be like, he's the elf!
And the coach is like, shut up!
Get the ball!
But the elf is--
yeah.
So it's like a distraction.
So it's almost an advantage for your children.
It's almost an advantage to throw the-- yeah.
Yeah.
That's so smart!
Oh, it's all tactical.
Yeah.
I like it.
All right, well, speaking of games, guys,
we're gonna play a game after this.
[AUDIENCE CHEERING]
OK!