Two SNL Originals Walk Into a Kitchen and Attack the Dough
Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon are back together, surrounded by flour, pizza dough and the dangerous possibility that neither one will behave like a normal cooking-show guest.
The longtime Saturday Night Live friends step into the NYT Cooking studio for an installment of The Pizza Interview, the series where notable guests answer questions while attempting to build their own pies.
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This is not a stiff celebrity cooking demonstration with everyone pretending the counter is naturally spotless. The format works because making pizza requires just enough attention to keep the guests occupied—and just enough unpredictability to knock rehearsed answers slightly off balance.
Ferrell and Shannon hardly need help finding a rhythm together. They joined SNL during the same mid-1990s overhaul and went on to share the screen in projects including A Night at the Roxbury, Superstar and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.
Their latest reunion comes with Netflix’s golf comedy The Hawk, where Ferrell plays former champion Lonnie Hawkins and Shannon appears as his ex-wife, Stacy. The NYT kitchen gives the pair a much smaller playing field, though pizza dough can become its own competitive sport once the flour starts flying.
The pleasure here is less about achieving a mathematically perfect crust than watching two performers who understand each other’s timing. Ferrell can turn a pause into a full event; Shannon can take an ordinary answer somewhere wonderfully strange before anyone realizes the exit has disappeared.
And yes, there is useful pizza inspiration tucked inside the foolishness. Viewers can watch how the dough is stretched, topped and moved through the kitchen while picking up the larger lesson behind every homemade pie: confidence is helpful, but recovering from a questionable decision is the real skill.
So press play for the food, stay for the reunion and remember that a misshapen pizza still tastes like pizza. In many homes, that already qualifies as a professional result.
Watch Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon’s Pizza Interview With NYT Cooking
The roughly 13-minute episode puts the longtime comedy partners in the NYT Cooking studio to make individual pizzas while answering questions.
Source: NYT Cooking; Netflix Tudum.
