Will Ferrell Makes DirtyElfJokes and Rocks Teeny Tiny Shorts in 'Scared Straight' Prison Skit atSNL50th Anniversary

Mar. 15, 2025

Will Ferrell in Scared Straight sketch on SNL50: The Anniversary Special.

Will Ferrell’s physical comedy still gets all the laughs onSaturday Night Live.

Ferrell joined an already star-studded cast of characters in the ‘Scared Straight’ sketch onSNL50: The Anniversary Special. The sketch begins withJason Sudeikisas a cop, addressingMarcello Hernández,Mikey DayandMichael Longfellow, three teens busted for shoplifting.

Sudeikis brings in two prisoners to help the teens understand the magnitude of what they’ve done:Kenan ThompsonandEddie Murphy.

Thompson and Murphy inundate the three with stories from prison, but the teens quickly realize the stories are lifted fromHarry PotterandThe Nutty Professor.

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Ferrell’s Big Red joins the men in telling prison stories, arguing that it’s actually “really fun.”

“I’m in an improv group. I’m scrapbooking like crazy. Outside, I never used to get laid. Now I’m having sex 50, 60 times a day,” he says.

The jokes about his family-friendly holiday film quickly take a NSFW turn. Even Ferrell himself fumbled over the racy lines, which elicited so much laughter that both Thompson and Murphy struggled to hold back their smiles.

When Hernández pushes back, the men crowd around him as Big Red says, “In prison, you’re not going to be an elf named Buddy. You’re gonna get Elf’d, right in your butt-y.”

“And forget about your North Pole, what you’re going to have to worry about is your South Pole,” Murphy’s character adds.

Will Ferrell in the movie ‘Elf’ (2003).

In an interview withThe Hollywood Reporterin 2021, Ferrell discussed his decision not to do a sequel to his holiday smash hit film.

Elfwas a box office hit grossing $223 million worldwide and becoming an instant Christmas classic. According toTHR, he would have been paid $29 million for taking part in the sequel. Ferrell said he turned down the sequel due to it having too similar a premise to the original movie.

“I would have had to promote the movie from an honest place, which would’ve been, like, ‘Oh no, it’s not good. I just couldn’t turn down that much money,’ " Ferrell toldTHR. “And I thought, ‘Can I actually say those words? I don’t think I can, so I guess I can’t do the movie.’ "

SNL50: The Anniversary Specialairs Sunday, Feb. 16, at 8 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock.

source: people.com