Will Ferrell Hilarious Acceptance Speech At The Mark Twain Comedy Award 2011

oh boy okay um Wow thank you thank you so much for that warm ovation as I stare at this magnificent bust of Mark Twain I'm reminded of how humbled I am to receive such an honor and how I vowed to take very special care of it I will never let it out of my sight I will find a place of honor in my house for this magnificent bust if my children try to touch it or even look at it I will beat them it it means that much to me in fact I told my wife that maybe I should buy it its own seat for the plane ride home no-no-no no I just started the speech why would you think I'm done I want to sincerely thank the Kennedy Center for this prize and this and the fine folks at PBS for airing this special I am the 14th recipient of the Mark Twain prize and you're probably asking yourself why did it take so long well for 13 consecutive years I have been begged by the Kennedy Center to accept this award and for 13 consecutive years I haven't attica Lee said no for years I had many questions about this Mark Twain the first being who is he it then dawned on me that since I was a small boy I have thoroughly enjoyed his delicious fried chicken and then my wife informed me that I was thinking of Colonel Sanders not Mark Twain it turns out that he is considered America's finest author and humorist but that his real name is not Mark Twain it was Jerry Goldman before that it was Judy Blume and before that of course we all know the name Samuel Langhorne Simmons despite my failings to grasp the importance of Mark Twain and what exactly he did I decided to accept this award because of the prize money one billion dollars paid out over the next 10,000 years to say that I am thrilled to be here is a is a complete understatement and to make this evening even more thrilling I have just been informed that I am only the 11th Caucasian to receive this prestigious award pretty cool I can't tell you how enough how special it is to stand here on this stage at the Kennedy Center in front of this amazing audience while being watched on PBS by hundreds of people it's very surreal you have to understand as a kid growing up in Irvine California where I would sit in my room and listen to records of Steve Martin and the original Saturday Night Live cast or stay up late and watch Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show to see what what comedians he would have on I I had one dream one singular focus even at the earliest age I can remember wanting to do one thing and one thing only sell insurance so to be standing here feels somewhat odd whether was auto home or life fire flood or earthquake I just wanted to make people feel safe do you have enough inland marine insurance or business overhead expense disability insurance these are the things I thought of as a kid but the insurance game didn't happen for me so I fell back on comedy and Here I am now there's there's so many people I need to thank for helping me make tonight possible first off I would like to thank all the wonderful people who spoke or perform tonight on my behalf amazing amazing all of you taking time out of your busy personal and professional schedules to be here means the world to me and if any of you ever needs me to speak on your behalf for any reason just know and I sincerely mean this I am probably unavailable but thank you and I'm sorry ahead of time one of the people you saw tonight to whom I owe a huge debt of gratitude is is mr. Adam McKay together Adam and I have created anchorman Talladega Nights stepbrothers and the other guys a Broadway show and a comedy website I would also not be standing here if it weren't for Saturday Night Live executive producer Lorne Michaels Thank You Lauren for taking a chance on me and giving me the opportunity to be on Sara Night Live the show I I always dreamed of being on and finally what makes the night truly special is that I can share it with my family I am I am so grateful to all of you guys for your continued support and love for the things that I do but mostly I would like to thank my lovely wife vivica before I do that however I should really thank my first and second wives Donna and Julie Donna what can I say they're just we were just too young when we got married I mean literally to young we were 13 heck you were 13 I was nine you know I was in the third grade and it wasn't right or legal but I hope you're well and I thank you for your support as for Julie you left me for Gary Busey and I will never blame you for that ever finally vivica all I can say is thank you and thank God I found you you um you've given us three beautiful boys and we have a wonderful life together but I do have to say sometimes you get a little lippy you got a big mouth and you'd like to run it I'll tell you one thing and one thing only okay tonight is my night all right I love you but I'm really sick of that big mouth of yours okay and I won't stand it okay do you hear me you look at me when I talk to you I mean tonight if I after the show if I want to go on a bender with Gwen Ifill by a couple spear guns and try to scale the Washington Monument I'm going to do it okay and there's nothing you can say to stop me I love you so once again I thank you for this magnificent night and this amazing honor and I want to thank the Kennedy Center for being one of the few places that upholds comedy as what it truly is an art form thank you and good night now you can play you

Channel: cocksandballs123

Views: 13,156,522

Rating: 4.8029275 out of 5

Keywords: will, ferrell, mark, twain, Funny, 2011, Comedy, Matthew, Broderick, Adam, McKay, Conan, O'Brien, John, C., Reilly, Paul, Rudd, Ed, Asner, Jack, Black, Hilarious

Id: guc-8R1bYVg

Length: 10min 26sec (626 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 01 2011

Reddit Comments

[u/ColeslawAbolitionist]

Thats really fucking clever. Lmao. Its rare that an acceptance speech makes me legitimately burst out in laughter.

[u/[deleted]]

rip Gwen Eiffel. I really hope she got to do than all night bender with Ferrell after this award.

[u/jdrl1987]

Hahaha I never seen this

[u/non_biased]

I wish he didn't plan on dropping the bust, it would have been so much better as a real accident.

[u/sunshinetime2]

That was brilliant!