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Leave it to Will Ferrell to turn a prestigious lifetime achievement award into a punchline.

The “Anchorman” star was honored with the Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film by the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (Sbiff) on Tuesday night — and he brought the jokes with him.

“The fact that you’d drive up to this hellhole, Santa Barbara, means so much to me,” Ferrell joked as he thanked members of the audience, which included co-stars Kristen Wiig and Octavia Spencer. “I was actually here at the Santa Barbara Film Festival in 1997 with a little ditty called ‘Men Seeking Women’ starring ‘Murphy Brown’s’ Grant Shaud. Straight to DVD. It is good to be back!”

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The highlight of Ferrell’s speech was a lengthy story about how...

As comedian Will Ferrell walked across the magnificent stage of The Kennedy Center to accept the greatest honor an America funny person can receive, The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, something happened that made us all remember why he is getting this prestigious honor. The award instantly slipped from Will’s hilarious fingers, shattering this legendary humorist’s bust all over the floor. An obvious gag, that was so damn fitting to what Will represents in the history of the art of doing silly stuff. Without breaking character for a second, Will hilariously tries to pick up the pieces as the world just sat back and laughed… but not laughing at him, we were laughing with him. The appeal of Will Ferrell comes from his innocent “I don’t give a f*ck” attitude that elevates simple stupid jokes to performance art. As Mr. Ferrell once said, “What I...

Exclusive: Quibi has rounded out its supporting cast for sci-fi drama series Don’t Look Deeper. Jan Luis Castellanos (Runaways), Erin Pineda (American Princess) Raquel McPeek Rodriguez (Chicago Med) and Kaiwi Lyman are set opposite previously announced Don Cheadle, Emily Mortimer and Helena Howard. Belissa Escobedo, Ema Horvath, Harvey Zielinski (Zoe.Misplaced), Brandon Win (For the People), Kayleigh Gilbert (Break Night), Tyler Ghyzel (American Princess), Cameron Roberts (Ben is Back), Dana Gourrier (The Hateful Eight), Bevin Bru (Head Count), Amy Anderson (Modern Family), Harvey Guillen (What We Do In The Shadows), Holly Long (Men Seeking Women), Makenzie Lee-Foster (This Is Us), Hartlyn Hilsman (Big Little Lies) and Kate Crash (Messiah of Dogs) round out the supporting cast. The series is a co-production between New Form, a Whistle-owned company, and Doug Liman’s 30 Ninjas for Quibi. Catherine Hardwicke is...

Gina Rodriguez posted the second installment of her "Movement Mondays" project today, this time urging Latino fans to rally behind Cuban-American actor Rosa Salazar. After highlighting some of Salazar's recent work - including her turns in Divergent and Maze Runner - Rodriguez reiterated the mission of her #MovementMondays: "How do we have Latino Stars to represent us? How do we have more Rosa Salazar's? We Make Them! We Make Them!" Rodriguez explained on Instagram. "We must show the studios that if they cast Latinos then we will go watch the movies that include us." #MovementMondays This is Rosa Salazar.

Gina Rodriguez posted the second installment of her "Movement Mondays" project today, this time urging Latino fans to rally behind Cuban-American actor Rosa Salazar. After highlighting some of Salazar's recent work - including her turns in Divergent and Maze Runner - Rodriguez reiterated the mission of her #MovementMondays: "How do we have Latino Stars to represent us? How do we have more Rosa Salazar's? We Make Them! We Make Them!" Rodriguez explained on Instagram. "We must show the studios that if they cast Latinos then we will go watch the movies that include us." #MovementMondays This is Rosa Salazar.