“More Cowbell has ruined my life,” says Christopher Walken, the actor featured in a sketch on Saturday Night Live in 2000.
The skit reimagines a recording session for Blue Öyster Cult’s “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper,” with Walken playing ultra-serious producer Bruce Dickinson (no, not that Bruce Dickinson) and Will Ferrell as Gene Frenkle, a man with the body of a roadie and the soul of a cowbell.
The setup is simple: the band plays, Ferrell clanks away like a toddler in a saucepan aisle, and Walken demands, in that glorious Walken cadence, “I got a fever… and the only prescription is MORE COWBELL.”
It’s Pure, Beautiful Chaos
Ferrell’s shirt is too tight. His belly is too free. His energy is too much.
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