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Will Ferrell Just Admitted How Scared He Was to Leave SNL · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. When any cast member
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  Speaker 1: of SNL chooses to leave the show, it can be
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  Speaker 1: a pretty frightening moment in their career. Several alums do
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  Speaker 1: go on to become superstars, but far more daunt Will
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  Speaker 1: Ferrell certainly one of the more successful actors in the
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  Speaker 1: show's history, but he just admitted to The Wall Street
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  Speaker 1: Journal when he departed SNL in two thousand two, it
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  Speaker 1: felt like anything but a guarantee, saying I was creeping
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  Speaker 1: up my seventh season for better or for worse, it
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  Speaker 1: was a good time to go. It was a mix
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  Speaker 1: of scary and feeling like the right time. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know why, because it really weren't a pilot movie scripts
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  Speaker 1: waiting for me. It was more like, I'm pretty well known,
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  Speaker 1: let's choose this momentum to try. I had signed on
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  Speaker 1: to Old School and then he had this script that
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  Speaker 1: was a great concept and need to work about a
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  Speaker 1: grown man at the North Pole, but we thought was
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  Speaker 1: an ELF med script that needed to work, ended up
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  Speaker 1: being Elf and the rest is history. SNL is on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday's NBC that's direct from Hollywood,