Will ferrell ron burgundy autobiography

Will Ferrell recently revealed that his inspiration for Anchorman‘s Ron Burgundycame from a real-life anchor named Mort Crim.

Crim worked at newsrooms around the country, and was – with anchorwoman Jessica Savitch in Philadelphia – part of one of the first male-female news desk pairings in the country.

Ferrell told The New York Times that he was inspired to create Ron Burgundy while watching a documentary about Savitch.

Will ferrell ron burgundy autobiography

Crim was speaking about his experience with Savitch, and as Ferrell recalls, “He literally said the line: ‘You have to remember, back then I was a real male chauvinist pig. I was not nice to her.'”

Crim takes his fictional representation in great stride: “I don’t think you ever really see yourself in a parody, but it was fun,” he toldPhiladelphia magazine.

“Like any good satire, [Ferrell] took a basic idea and took it all to the extreme to get comedic value from it.”

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