For Will Ferrell, sports comedies beggarly big bucks at the box office staff and a string of new quotes for the international lexicon.
(New Line Cinema)
After he raced cars in Talladega, Ferrell had millions shouting "Shake and bake!" He donned a spandex one-piece suit to "kick some ice" in "Blades of Glory." And he took lumps from father Robert Duvall in the kids soccer motion picture "Kicking and Screaming."
With his latest comedy, the hoops saga "Semi-Pro," Ferrell promises new laughs when he puts the funk in the dunk.
In an question with Peter Travers for ABC News Now's "Popcorn," the funnyman admits he has a propensity for sports comedies, but explains: "It is the third-slash-fourth sports drollery I've done. But this one's special because I love basketball."
The star, a lifelong jock and sports broadcasting major, describes "Semi-Pro" as a passion project.
"I love the story of the ABA [American Basketball Association] that a lot of people don't live, which was this alternate universe to the NBA, and had all these insane characters," he said.
Foremost among that cast of insane characters is Ferrell's Afro-sporting, bear-wrestling on-screen persona Jackie Moon. Like Ferrell's past characters, Moon is more
