Originally Posted by
Ted Striker
Yeah, for sure.
A friend who was a big Will Ferrell fan sent me a link to the first clip of Funny or Die (Ferrell's landlord is a drunk toddler), and I would occasionally check the site to see if anything good was up. By that fluke I ended up watching all of Two Ferns as it happened. The only one I didn't see is Hillary Clinton because it was a few years later.
I think one of the reasons it worked (initially) was that at the time, nobody really knew who he was. Obviously he was doing stand-up, but the only thing I knew him from back then was a recurring bit part on Reno 911.