Will Ferrell Reveals Inspiration for Ron Burgundy

The actor tells Rolling Stone retired anchor Mort Crim helped him bring his famous newsman to life.

Man, actor Will Ferrell says is the real life inspiration for anchorman Ron Burgundy, luckily, retired anchorman Mort Crim has a sense of humor about himself, he takes 0-offense at all, he might even get a little kick out of it. Take a look.

I’ll take the job.

That suit, that camera-ready hair, and that voice.

I’m Ron Burgundy.

America’s favorite anchorman is back and now Will Ferrell is revealing the man who helped bring Ron Burgundy to life. Meet Mort Crim.

I’m Mort Crim.

A now retired anchorman in the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine, Ferrell says he found inspiration while watching Crim in a lifetime documentary on pioneering journalist Jessica Savitch.

Good evening, I’m Mort Crim with Jessica Savitch.

He says ”At one point, they were talking to this anchor Mort Crim, who was basically saying, ‘I was a blank to her.’ What made me laugh was watching him. He still spoke like this, he still used his on-camera voice.””

Well, you have to understand that I was a typical, traditional, 1972 male chauvinist (If you describe an attitude or remark as male chauvinist, you are critical of it because you think it is based on the belief that men are naturally superior to women.

That’s uncalled for [If you describe a remark or criticism as uncalled for, you mean that it should not have been made, because it was unkind or unfair. I can’t work with this woman.

I did not take any offense, you know comedy is nothing but, and satire and parody is nothing but taking a grain of truth and stretching it out to an absolutely ridiculous conclusion. And I think that’s what they have done very skillfully in anchorman, the first anchorman, and I enjoyed it immensely.

Crim is now an author and voiceover [the voice of an offscreen narrator, announcer, or the like, in television or motion pictures.畫外音、旁白] artist says the movie holds true to life as a journalist in the 1970s.

I think they’d done an excellent job of taking some real situations, some real tensions that existed and squeezed the humor out of them.

This weekend, the real anchorman is heading to New York City for the premiere of anchorman II, and is said to meet Ron Burgundy for the first time.

Not only will it be my first time to meet Will Ferrell, but more importantly, it’ll be his first time to meet me.

I really wanna be at that introduction. That is one classy Detroit guy.