Will Ferrell is steered heavily into “wokeness.”
The Hollywood funnyman has followed in the footsteps of so many celebrities.
But Will Ferrell just devastated Saturday Night Live execs with this damning confession.
Ferrell laments wearing a dress on SNL
The “woke” mob is intent on choking the life out of artistic expression.
Political correctness is the death of art, especially comedy.
So many comedians, television shows, and movies have been put under the microscope for not being “progressive” enough in the past.
For instance, Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman and some of the cast members have thrown the show under the bus for all sorts of anti-woke sins.
Even though Friends was very liberal for its time in the 1990s, it is being “canceled” by today’s leftists.
The latest celebrity to repudiate his past career is actor Will Ferrell.
During a recent interview, Ferrell said that he regretted putting on a dress during a Saturday Night Live sketch, but not for reasons of emasculation or something along those lines.
NBC News reported that “Will Ferrell is no longer interested in performing in drag for laughs. During an interview on The New York Times’ ‘The Interview’ podcast alongside his longtime friend and former ‘Saturday Night Live’ head writer Harper Steele, Ferrell expressed a bit of regret over the ‘Janet Reno’s Fantasies’ sketch from Season 23 of the sketch comedy show. The sketch featured Ferrell in drag as the eponymous attorney general, with his appearance dressing up as a woman being used for laughs.”
Throughout the history of the theater, men have dressed up as women and vice versa.
So the Left is in favor of men wearing dresses, but they’re also not in favor of it.
And somehow, that is supposed to make sense.
Ferrell said, “That’s something I wouldn’t choose to do now” and said that the character “hits a false note now.”
The “rules” make no sense
Steele, who now identifies as transgender, said, “This kind of bums me out. . .I understand the laugh is a drag laugh. It’s, ‘Hey, look at this guy in a dress, and that’s funny.’ It’s absolutely not funny. It’s absolutely a way that we should be able to live in the world. However, with performers and actors, I do like a sense of play.”
If that is the case, then the Left should be clamoring to cancel all drag performances because drag performers are not transgender; they are generally gay men who dress in women’s clothes in order to perform.
Steele continued, “This is an interesting question to me. . .Do queer people like ‘The Birdcage,’ or do they not? Robin Williams, at least as far as we know, was not a gay man, and yet he spent about half of his comedy career doing a swishy gay guy on camera. Do people think that’s funny, or is it just hurtful?”
The Left are tying themselves in knots over their unworkable ideology.
Steele added, “I’ve heard from gay men that it was funny, and I’ve heard from gay men that it was hurtful. I am purple-haired woke, but I wonder if sometimes we take away the joy of playing when we take away some of the range that performers, especially comedy performers, can do.”
By the standards of “wokeness,” Melissa McCarthy should be condemned for playing former Trump White House spokesman Sean Spicer.
Ferrell and Steele were promoting their new Netflix documentary Will & Harper, an examination of their friendship after Steele began identifying as transgender.
Ferrell commented, “I had met trans people, but I didn’t have anyone personally in my life. . .So this was all new territory for me, which is why I think this film is so exciting for us to kind of put out there in the world. It’s a chance all of us in the cis community to be able to ask questions and also just to listen and be there as a friend to discuss this journey.”
For those who want to watch a “woke” lecture, Will & Harper begins streaming on Netflix September 27.
Stay tuned to Unmuzzled News for any updates to this ongoing story.
