Someone Let Will Ferrell Play In 10 Major League Baseball Teams In One Day; Here’s The Movie He Made
Will Ferrell can pretty much do whatever he wants at this point.
The last few months in Will Ferrell’s life have included a sensual live lip-sync of ‘Drunk In Love’ that rivalled that of Beyoncé herself, a melodramatic Lifetime movie with Kristen Wiig that no one could make any sense of, and an unexplained appearance on The Tonight Show dressed as the fictional little girl mascot of a snackcake company. His life isn’t so much that of a prolific 47-year-old comedian as it is an overprivileged child on a sugar high.
And I mean that in a good way — he’s absolutely living the dream.
Now, carrying on with the theme, he’s starring in an upcoming Funny Or Die-produced HBO special called Ferrell Takes The Field. It documents the one day in March this year he rocked up to Major League Baseball spring training and had a run at every position on the field, in all ten teams. It’s intended as a tribute to a player from the California Angels who (pretty needlessly) did the same thing in 1965 but, more importantly, it’s a stunt to raise funds and awareness for organisations raising funds for those fighting cancer.
Before the special’s even aired, Ferrell will have raised more than $1 million for Cancer for College — a cause that helps cancer survivors enter tertiary education. It’s a group he’s supported for some time now, last year even starting a charity crowdfunding campaign that offered the chance to play video games with him.
Living. The. Dream.
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Ferrell Takes The Field will air in the US on September 12.