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It may have been a long, long time since Will Ferrell<\/a> made a film that could be classed as a must watch, but there\u2019s no question that when it comes to comedy movies made between around 2003 and 2013 he was absolutely at the top of the tree. <\/p>\n Even setting aside the peerless Step Brothers, which seems to get funnier with every passing year, Ferrell was either directly responsible or partly responsible for some hilarious films<\/a> during that decade, including Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, The Other Guys with Mark Wahlberg, the list goes on. All superbly quotable, genuinely laugh-out-loud movies.\u00a0<\/p>\n He was also busy working on shows like Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis, which has the finest example of someone falling off the back of a chair ever put on film, as part of his comedy website Funny or Die, plus he worked as a producer on several other hits like HBO\u2019s Eastbound and Down and the online comedy series Drunk History. <\/p>\n Ferrell did what he did better than anyone, always fully committed (which many believe is the secret to doing comedy well) and often taking things to an outrageous level. That, of course, would often involve shouting, as his brilliant uncredited cameo in Ben Stiller\u2019s\u00a0Starsky and Hutch\u00a0attests to: \u201cMOM! THE MEATLOAF!\u201d, but according to his former\u00a0Saturday Night Live\u00a0<\/a>co-star Seth Meyers, that wasn\u2019t a welcome influence when it comes to comedy in general.\u00a0<\/p>\n He explained to podcast host Mike Birbiglia: \u201cHere\u2019s a really good example of a bad instinct: \u2018It\u2019s funny when Will Ferrell yells\u2019 \u2014 I\u2019ll do scenes where I yell. Maybe one of the only people who\u2019s funny yelling is Will Ferrell. [He is] the great comedy yeller. I actually think I wasn\u2019t the only person negatively influenced by the yelling of Will Ferrell, \u2019cause there was, I think, a generation of screaming comedy that was worse than when Will did it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt can\u2019t be alpha yelling,\u201d Meyers said. \u201cIt has to be that comedy move of a beta who thinks they\u2019re an alpha.\u201d<\/p>\n One comedian who Myers does think can get away with raising his voice for laughs though is I Think You Should Leave creator Tim Robinson, who is well known for screaming in skits on the Netflix show including Coffin Flops (\u201cI didn\u2019t DO this\u201d) and the \u2018Karl Havoc\u2019 mall mask sketch (We did WAY too much).\u00a0<\/p>\n