Guest host Christopher Walken stars as their demanding producer, and Ferrell is Gene Frenkle, the musician hired to supply the metronome-like beat of the song using a cowbell and drumstick.

In the sketch, which of course anyone reading this has seen, Christopher Walken's supposedly legendary producer "Bruce Dickerson" keeps beseeching cowbell player Gene Frenkle (Will Ferrell ...

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Nobody knows for sure how Gene Frenkle died — but some Saturday Night Live vets have theories about the legendary percussionist's fate. A group of iconic former SNL cast members and musical ...

Gene Frenkle from "More Cowbell," and definitive celebrity impressions such as George W. Bush and Alex Trebek. So it made perfect sense that the first sketch of SNL50 would feature one of Ferrell ...

almost every participant in the SNL50 episode shared their thoughts on how Frenkle — the energetic cowbell player portrayed by Will Ferrell — met his untimely demise. Ferrell, who wrote the sketch, ...

Will Ferrell has kept his eldest son ... student has played in a band and even had his dad join him onstage for a cowbell cameo during a 2022 performance in San Diego — a playful nod to Will ...