Will Ferrell bombs during MLB Home Run Derby as baseball fans torch Netflix's broadcast

Fox News ^ | 13 July 2026 | Alejandro Avila

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

Remember when a surprise Will Ferrell cameo was an automatic home run?

Monday night's Home Run Derby suggested those days may be long gone.

Netflix's "marquee" event featured not just the unpopular Elle Duncan, but Ferrell, whose routine quickly became one of the night's most dreaded moments at Citizens Bank.

Add Netflix's audio and crashing issues to the mix, and you've got two very skippable hours of television.

---

TOPICS: Sports; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: fcc; mlb; netflix; woke

[missthethunder]

“I only thought he was funny in Elf, Old School, Talledega Nights,
Step Brothers, Ron Burgandy, Zoolander, and SNL,
but other than that I don’t know.”

One movie I really liked that he starred in was
“stranger than fiction”.
It has Emma Thompson and Maggie Gyllenhaal in it too.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420223/

He plays a IRS agent with extreme OCD.
He is very calm though out the whole movie.
Walks and talks quietly.
One of the best scene is so sweet.
He’s fallen in love with Maggie, who is a baker, so he brings her flours.
He has a tray that has about 15 little bags of different flours.
It is such a thoughtful gift.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Remember when a surprise Will Ferrell cameo was an automatic home run?

No. I don't.

[wafflehouse]

will farrell has been painfully cringe from the beginning. if thats what he is going for, ok, but i cant watch it

[Hyman Roth]

Yeh, he looks like a liberal woman in her 50s/60s.

All he needs is a cat and a box of wine.

[Bullish]

I agree with you on Robin Williams. I also never liked the comedy of Johnathan Winters, who was one of his mentors... They both had to try too hard for a laugh, constantly doing dumb ad libs instead of having funny material.

[Reily]

The only thing I remember liking him in was “Moscow on the Hudson”. I found his break out role Mork in the TV show “Mork and Mindy” tedious at best. Everything else was pick up a book or change the channel.

[Resolute Conservative]

I liked him in (the only 3 I could tolerate):
Insomnia (his best)
Dead Poets Society
Good Will Hunting

[Disambiguator]

He did a pretty good William F Buckley impersonation.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S_VMwVpx4GI&pp=ygUVc25sIHdpbGxpYW0gZiBidWNrbGV5&ra=m

[Reily]

Never saw them.

[mass55th]

Thanks for the link. I don’t think I ever saw that. I wasn’t an avid watcher of SNL. Haven’t watched it in at least 30 years or more.

[Disambiguator]

I think that clip goes back about 40 years.

[Chickensoup]

Same.

[Williams]

I forgot Anchor Man. Also great.

[mass55th]

Yeah, the info at the link said it was from 1984. I was 37 in 1984.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Well, he cant help his looks. I just don’t find him funny.