Over 20 years later, Elf is still celebrated as one of the best Christmas movies of all time. You could also say it’s one of Will Ferrell’s funniest movies, playing a man who was raised by elves in the North Pole, only to venture into New York City for the first time to meet his birth father. But hen the SNL alum first put on Buddy the Elf’s costume, his first thought was “What was I thinking?”
After seven years on SNL, Will Ferrell established his status as a comedic leading man with the frat comedy Old School. But when his next project followed the holiday flick Elf, the Superstar actor got real on IMO with Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson about not knowing what to think the first time he put on the Buddy the Elf costume:
