Ron Burgundy reveals he ‘golfed with Trump’ as Will Ferrell stages chat show takeover
Popular character appeared on all the main US networks at the same time
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Your support makes all the difference.Will Ferrell took over US television after dropping in on several late-night chat shows as Anchorman character Ron Burgundy.
The actor visited the set of shows presented by Jimmy Kimmel, James Corden, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers and Conan O’Brien and performed a spot of standup before being interviewed by the hosts.
This means that, those channel-hopping would have been met with the same visual of Burgundy performing standup on all the main TV networks.
Ferrell was promoting the second season of Burgundy’s podcast, which is released next Thursday with presidential candidate Kamala Harris featuring as a guest star, and in doing so broke the world record for most simultaneous late night talk show appearances.
The actor, as the former San Diego newscaster, told Colbert he once went golfing with Donald Trump and saw the president shoot “90 under par”.
He also added he invested in some of his properties and got “three degrees” after “writing the check” to fund Trump University.
“How many of you out there have watched pornography?” he asked Kimmel’s studio audience, adding: “No joke here – just checking” when some audience members put their hands in the air.
On Fallon, he said his favourite podcast guest was Kylie Minogue.
He said: “You never want to meet your heroes and boy, Kylie and I, from the moment she came into the studio, we just looked at each other and it was on.”
Upon his visit to O’Brien, he quipped that the second season of his podcast included “exciting” reveals such as Ted Cruz being the zodiac killer.
“I remember back in my day, I prematurely announced that we had won the Vietnam War,” he said. “That was eight years before it ended. I got some flack and I wasn’t a big enough man to correct my mistake on the air.”
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