But Amy, in particular, identified with these characters or something, so she was like, ‘What do you think?’ And we were like, ‘Oh, yeah, okay.’ It wasn’t so much that we lobbied for it as that she did, and we were kind of like, ‘Well, this would be a fun experience and a nice opportunity,’ so we went forward with it.” Says Ferrell, “ didn’t necessarily have this in our heads as movie material. In fact, her name comes up several times during the thirteen-minute interview. So how did this sketch get picked in the first place? Ferrell credits co-producer Amy Heckerling, director of Clueless and Fast Times at Ridgemont High, with getting the film off the ground. We found that having them in the same family helped to set up that loser mid-twentysomething slacker-who-doesn’t-know-what-to-do-with-their-life set-up.” We just locked ourselves in a room, and between myself and Chris and Steve Koren, who helped us write the sketch, we improvised a lot of it, like how we thought these guys would talk and sound and react and whether or not they’re just friends or in the same family.

So we just had this blank page that we had to fill from scratch. “It’s kind of this physical cartoon, is the best way to describe it. “The sketch is pretty much only on one level,” Ferrell says in a phone interview from Toronto. Ferrell himself admits that the film had to be created pretty much from scratch. In fact, until A Night at the Roxbury brought these guys - played by Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan - to the big screen, no one had any idea that they were even brothers.

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