Is it true that Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chile Peppers looks a lot like Will Ferrell?
Red Hot Chili Peppers rocker Chad Smith looks so much like actor Will Ferrell he’s constantly stopped in the street and mistaken for the film funnyman. The drummer insists he’s often asked to sign autographs as Ferrell, and he’s so determined to claim back his own identity he has started wearing T-shirts that read ‘I’m not Will Ferrell’. Smith tells Spinner.com, “People come up to me in airports and they’re asking for my autograph, not because I’m the drummer for the Chili Peppers – they really think I’m Will Ferrell. “And I’m nice to these people. (I say) ‘No, I’m not.’ But they’re like, ‘I loved you in Old School. You’re so funny.'” He reveals the pair met once at a Los Angeles party, and the likeness freaked them both out: “There’s a buffet line and I walk up and I’m getting my second shrimp skewer. There’s a guy next to me doing the same thing and then Will Ferrell is next to him and so I kind of glance over. Right at the time I’m tur
Red Hot Chili Peppers and Chickenfoot drummer Chad Smith gets it — he looks like Will Ferrell. “People come up to me in airports and they’re asking for my autograph not because I’m the drummer for the Chili Peppers. They really think I’m Will Ferrell,” he tells Spinner. “And I’m nice to these people. [I say] ‘No, I’m not.’ But they’re like, ‘I loved you in ‘Old School.’ You’re so funny.'” Smith tried to address that confusion when he joined his Chickenfoot mates recently on the ‘Tonight Show’ by wearing an “I’m Not Will Ferrell” t-shirt. “I thought, ‘What better way to dispel the rumor than on national television?’ I had their little prop department make me a t-shirt,” he says. It seems only fair that Ferrell get a chance to respond. We asked Smith if he’d send a shirt to his doppelganger, but he says fans may take care of that for him. “In Kansas City, this girl got up on stage and she had a picture of him as Ron Burgundy and it said, ‘I am not Chad Smith,'” he says. “So funny. That’
Red Hot Chili Peppers rocker Chad Smith looks so much like actor Will Ferrell he’s constantly stopped in the street and mistaken for the film funnyman. The drummer insists he’s often asked to sign autographs as Ferrell, and he’s so determined to claim back his own identity he has started wearing T-shirts that read ‘I’m not Will Ferrell’.
Red Hot Chili Peppers rocker Chad Smith looks so much like actor Will Ferrell he’s constantly stopped in the street and mistaken for the film funnyman. The drummer insists he’s often asked to sign autographs as Ferrell, and he’s so determined to claim back his own identity he has started wearing T-shirts that read ‘I’m not Will Ferrell’. Smith tells Spinner.com, “People come up to me in airports and they’re asking for my autograph, not because I’m the drummer for the Chili Peppers – they really think I’m Will Ferrell. “And I’m nice to these people. (I say) ‘No, I’m not.’ But they’re like, ‘I loved you in Old School. You’re so funny.'” He reveals the pair met once at a Los Angeles party, and the likeness freaked them both out: “There’s a buffet line and I walk up and I’m getting my second shrimp skewer. There’s a guy next to me doing the same thing and then Will Ferrell is next to him and so I kind of glance over. Right at the time I’m tur
Red Hot Chili Peppers and Chickenfoot drummer Chad Smith gets it — he looks like Will Ferrell. “People come up to me in airports and they’re asking for my autograph not because I’m the drummer for the Chili Peppers. They really think I’m Will Ferrell,” he tells Spinner. “And I’m nice to these people. [I say] ‘No, I’m not.’ But they’re like, ‘I loved you in ‘Old School.’ You’re so funny.'” Smith tried to address that confusion when he joined his Chickenfoot mates recently on the ‘Tonight Show’ by wearing an “I’m Not Will Ferrell” t-shirt. “I thought, ‘What better way to dispel the rumor than on national television?’ I had their little prop department make me a t-shirt,” he says. It seems only fair that Ferrell get a chance to respond. We asked Smith if he’d send a shirt to his doppelganger, but he says fans may take care of that for him. “In Kansas City, this girl got up on stage and she had a picture of him as Ron Burgundy and it said, ‘I am not Chad Smith,'” he says. “So funny. That’
