All Will Ferrell Performances Ranked From Best to Worst!

Will Ferrell is a comedy master, whether he’s playing Frank the Tank, Buddy, Ron Burgundy, or a one-scene wonder like Chazz Reinhold, his abilities have been unmatched throughout his career and may even be underappreciated due to his remarkable ability to physically portray the many energy of the characters he inhabits. We ranked the top Will Ferrell performances to honor him.

Before landing his big break on the venerable NBC sketch comedy “Saturday Night Live,” Ferrell trained with the Los Angeles-based improvisational troupe The Groundlings, and from 1995 until 2002, he served as a cast member and served as the anchor for some of the funniest skits, such as “More Cowbell” with Christopher Walken and the funny digital short “Dissing Your Dog.”

He won his first Emmy nomination for best solo performance in a variety or music program, and his star continued to rise. Ferrell has played in more than 30 films, and his films have earned over $2.7 billion worldwide, and we will rank the best Will Ferrell performances down below.

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1. Holmes & Watson

Holmes and Watson

Dr. John Watson and Detective Sherlock Holmes team together to look into a murder at Buckingham Palace, all evidence seems to lead to Professor James Moriarty, the criminal mastermind and the team’s lifelong adversary, making it appear to be an open-and-shut case. This is one of the very greatest movies ever produced, and it is the best Will Ferrell performance ever. If you’ve seen Step Brothers and Twitched, two top-notch comedic masterpieces, you’ll adore this Academy Award-winning film.

2. The Campaign

The Campaign

The Campaign, starring Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, and Recount director Jay Roach, was one of those comedic concepts that can’t be missed but everyone involved seems to have stopped thinking after the logline, making it one of the best Will Ferrell performances. It was a political comedy in a presidential election year that had no bite but almost as many laughs, and Ferrell plays Cam Brady, a slack and cynical longtime congressman running against a local bumpkin, going to the Ron Burgundy-Ricky Bobby idiot.

3. Get Hard

Get Hard

Get Hard is criticized for being homophobic and racist in some circles, but it’s generally simply stupid, but on the good side, it shows Ferrell’s efforts to get past the big-loud-dumb character of his great early successes, but the alternative they come up with director Etan Cohen isn’t all that original. The actor portrays James King, a Master of the Universe type who, although innocent, is imprisoned in a maximum-security facility, presenting us with an amazing Will Ferrell performance.

4. The Other Guys

The Other Guys

In drama, Ferrell often switches to a more reserved image, allowing his American-white male averageness to imply flabby mediocrity and unsaid regrets, so The Other Guys is the rare mainstream Ferrell humor where his character isn’t the foolish, loud, super-confident jerk.

5. Daddy’s Home

Daddy’s Home

The first Daddy’s Home was a silly comedy with a message about how difficult it is to be a good father as it dealt with blended families and macho posturing, but for the 2017 follow-up, which introduces us to Brad (Ferrell) and Dusty’s domineering fathers, any emotion and nuance from the original are thrown out the window. We think this belongs to this list of best Will Ferrell performances because the actor’s amazing work is obvious to all.

6. Old School

Old School

In Todd Phillips’ comedy, three thirty-somethings decide to recreate their crazy college days and join a fraternity. “Old School” has an adversarial dean, in this instance Gordon Pritchard, who was the boys’ opponent in college and now takes pleasure in making their lives miserable, so it resembles “Animal House” with grownups more than anything else. Ferrell has yet another chance in the movie to demonstrate his willingness to do anything for laughs, but this could not rank high in this list of best Will Ferrell performances.

7. Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga

Eurovision Song Contest The Story of Fire Saga

Ferrell is about 15 to 20 years too old to be playing Lars Erickssong, the Icelandic permanent idealist who teams up with his presumably Sigrit to enter the famously chintzy Eurovision Song Contest. The role fits him perfectly, making it among the best Will Ferrell performances.

8. Land of the Lost

Land of the Lost

This leaden reboot of the 1970s TV series, which Matt Lauer refers to as the “huge, fat, genuinely bad belly-flop on his résumé,” has it all: ugly CGI, a stupid tribute to A Chorus Line, crude breast jokes, and Taccone portraying a monkey. Ferrell has built a career out of portraying rowdy losers, but only in Land of the Lost does he come off as completely unlikable: his dull-scientist persona never really comes to life, not even when partnered with Danny McBride’s survivalist. Maybe we can blame the film’s poor blend of warmed-over thrills a la Jurassic Park and worn-out bromance jokes, but this is not among the best Will Ferrell performances.

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