Will Ferrell to receive Mark Twain Award for comedy

Will Ferrell is set to be the 14th winner of the Mark Twain Prize. He joins funnymen Richard Pryor, George Carlin and Bill Cosby. The award will be presented to Ferrell on October 23 at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall in Washington, D.C.

Ferrell released a statement when he received news of the award, saying, , “I am truly honored to receive this distinction. I will now begin cultivating a Mark Twain-esque moustache in anticipation of the event.”

Ferrell started his career on ‘Saturday Night Live’ in 1995. Since then, Ferrell has launched a very successful movie career.

The award was won by a fellow ‘Saturday Night Live’ star, Tina Fey.

Will Ferrell will make guest appearance on “The Office”

Actor Will Ferrell is schedule to guest star as a branch manager, Dunder Mifflin, in “The Office”. NBC did not specify just how many episodes the funnyman would appear in. Steve Carell has said that he would not be returning after this season of the show.

“We found Steve Carell when he was nothing but a movie star and we turned him into a television star,” said “The Office” executive producer Paul Lieberstein. “We are proud to continue ‘The Office’s’ tradition of discovering famous talent, and we hope that once America gets a good look at Will, they’ll see what we see: tremendous raw sexuality.”

Other members of the cast of “The Office” are excited about Farrell joining them.

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Will Ferrell Leads the ‘Overpaid Actor’ List

Looks like “Land of the Lost” has earned star Will Ferrell the dubious distinction of being the most overpaid actor in show business, according to the list makers at Forbes magazine.

Forbes looked at 100 top actors based on their widely released films over the past five years. It factored in the production costs of those movies against how much boxoffice, DVD and other revenue they generated in order to come up with an operating income for each film, which it then compared with the salaries the stars earned.

In Ferrell’s case, the actor’s films earned just $3.29 for every dollar he was paid. That’s a pretty poor contrast to the $160 that Shia LaBeouf’s movies returned to the studios for every buck he earned.

That figure, by the way, put LaBeouf — who starred in “Transformers” in 2007 and “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” in 2008 — at the top of Forbes list of Best Actors for the Buck. Also included on that list were Robert Downey Jr., Christian Bale and Dennis Quaid.

“Land of the Lost,” a boxoffice dud starring Ferrell as an offbeat scientist, racked up about $100 million in production costs, not including marketing, but only returned $65 million at the worldwide boxoffice. His movie “Semi-Pro,” which earned $44 million at the worldwide boxoffice, has also dragged down Ferrell’s return-on-investment performance lately.

No. 2 on the overpaid actors list is Ewan McGregor, who made a slew of poorly performing movies after playing Obi-Wan Kenobi four years ago in “Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith.” McGregor’s films earned $3.75 per dollar he was paid.

The third most overpaid actor is Billy Bob Thornton, whose recent films include “Eagle Eye,” “Mr. Woodcock,” “The Astronaut Farmer” and “The Informers.”

Hollywood Reporter