That combined with hearing the pitch “husband and wife try to finance their daughter’s college education through an illegal casino” just felt like the backdrop to something absolutely fun to be a part of. Will: I think specific to this, it was a chance for Amy and I to work together, which we hadn’t gotten to do since Blades of Glory and even in that we were on separate storylines and hardly in scenes together. As parents to young children yourselves, was that what attracted you to the script? The House manages to find new ways to turn that premise on its ear. There’s something inherently funny about chaos consuming the ‘burbs and mild-mannered parents being pushed to the edge. I sat down with Will and Amy to discuss The House, what they’ve learned from the new generation of comedic voices, and who’d they want to play from Trump’s administration in an SNL sketch. Basically, it’s everything you’d want to see in Ferrell and Poehler’s first true film together. Run-ins with corrupt local politicians, low-level gangsters, and a bloodthirsty Avenger are just some of the many hurdles Ferrell and Poehler have to clear as the hilarity heightens and the situational ante keeps getting upped.

With some arm twisting from their equally desperate friend (Jason Mantzoukas), the domesticated duo open a rowdy illegal casino in their quiet neighborhood and, before they know it, things spiral out of control. Ferrell and Poehler play a happily married couple who resort to extreme measures when they discover they won’t be able to afford their daughter’s college tuition. That all changes tomorrow with The House opening in theaters. How have these two towering titans of comedy never been given the proper court to volley their signature humor and acerbic wit back and forth before? Which is no laughing matter when you really think about it. Other than a mere year of overlap on Saturday Night Live (which produced one of the greatest sketches of all time, “Short Shorts for the USA” ) and mostly isolated screen time in the no-one-knows-what-it-means-but-it’s-provocative Blades of Glory, Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler have never performed together in a proper two-hander.

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