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Will Ferrell's SNL Audition: The Briefcase of Fake Money
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Colin Jost had apparently teased this story, and Ferrell delivers in full. Armed with counterfeit bills from a toy store packed into a briefcase, Ferrell planned to walk into Lorne Michaels' office, stack cash on his desk, and deliver the line: 'Lorne, we can talk till the cows come home. We all know what really talks — cash money.' Instead, fear took over. He sat through an intense meeting where Michaels actually coached him for a callback, briefcase at his feet, never summoning the nerve. He brought the case back the day he got the job. His final act: asking the assistant to hand Lorne some of the fake bills as a thank-you, which Michaels found genuinely funny in hindsight [1] — Will Ferrell "Will Ferrell walked into Lorne Michaels' office carrying a briefcase stuffed with counterfeit money from a toy store, planning to stack it …" 34:36 .
Will Ferrell brought a briefcase of counterfeit toy-store cash to his SNL audition intending to bribe Lorne Michaels, but was too nervous to go through with it.
Will Ferrell walked into Lorne Michaels' office carrying a briefcase stuffed with counterfeit money from a toy store, planning to stack it on Lorne's desk and demand a spot on SNL. He was too nervous to pull it off — but he brought the briefcase back to the meeting where he was finally offered the job.
