Have A Laugh And Gaze At The Greatest Comedies Of Our Time

18. Anchorman (2004)

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Two years after his triumphant run at SNL, Will Ferrell cemented his transition to movie stardom with this master of a comedy. Ferrell and his frequent collaborator/co-writer/director Adam McKay found the perfect role for the comedian as the sexist, alpha-male privileged, buffoonish San Diego newscaster Ron Burgundy. When the news director goes crazy over stories about cute animals at the zoo, the film is right on target. And its quotable as hell — from Burgundy’s declaration that San Diego is German for a whale’s vagina to his cry that he’s “in a glass case of emotion.”