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Will Fer­rell repris­es Ron Bur­gundy role for a new podcast

08 Feb 2019

Words by Charles Bramesco

A man holding a flaming torch in front of a neon sign displaying the word "King".
A man holding a flaming torch in front of a neon sign displaying the word "King".
Lis­ten to the first episode in the series now, record­ed inside a glass case of emotion.

We don’t know how to put this… but Ron Bur­gundy has got a pod­cast, and yes, it’s kind of a big deal. That’s right, the most oft-quot­ed com­e­dy of the 2000s, Anchor­man: The Leg­end of Ron Bur­gundy, is get­ting an unex­pect­ed spin-off via iHeart Radio, and ear­ly reports from indus­try insid­ers sug­gest that 60 per cent of the time, it will work every time.

The self-evi­dent­ly titled Ron Bur­gundy Pod­cast will call Will Fer­rell​‘s haughty jazz flute vir­tu­oso out of retire­ment for a series of long­form explo­rations of the big top­ics spark­ing con­ver­sa­tion in soci­ety today: pol­i­tics, bul­ly­ing, the pow­ers of tran­scen­den­tal med­i­ta­tion, pre­sum­ably mous­tache main­te­nance and care.

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For each instal­ment, he’ll bring on a notable per­son in the field to pro­vide some com­men­tary, and then sub­ject that per­son to a bat­tery of silli­ness as their exchange spins out in whichev­er direc­tion. Whether any­one will actu­al­ly learn any­thing has yet to be confirmed.

The pod­cast launched just this week, with the pre­mière episode ​‘True Crime’ avail­able to down­load here. The hottest genre in the bur­geon­ing biz has long cap­ti­vat­ed the inves­tiga­tive-mind­ed Bur­gundy, so he brings on a pro­fes­sion­al crim­i­nol­o­gist to shed some light on the sit­u­a­tion. (Or just help him plot the per­fect mur­der, spec­u­late on the iden­ti­ty of the Zodi­ac, and talk A Star Is Born.)

For a man so enam­oured of hear­ing him­self speak, the pod­cast might be the per­fect Bur­gundy vehi­cle. Now, all we need is an Alan Par­tridge YouTube chan­nel and we’ll be set.

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