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*Vulture's Best Comedy Book of 2023*
From the author of Generation Friends, featuring brand-new interviews with Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, a surprising, incisive, and often hilarious book about the film that changed comedy, Anchorman.
It’s been nearly twenty years since Ron Burgundy burst into movie fans’ lives, reminding San…
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As someone who wrote a book about Mean Girls, I have to quarrel just a bit with that subtitle. But twenty years after its release, Anchorman remains vital comedy viewing and shares a lot in common with Mean Girls: both came out in 2004, and both were made by a team of Saturday Night Live alums (in this case, Will Ferrell and Adam McKay), and both were crucial in shaping the comedy of the last two decades.
Austerlitz dives deep, showing the comedic and societal forces swirling beneath the surface of this quite silly-looking comedy, from Steve Carrell…
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