3. Gimbels Santa and Buddy had one take to film the ‘North Pole’ fight scene. The interaction between Will Ferrell as Buddy the Elf and Artie Lange, as the department store Santa who “smells ...

On top of that, Ferrell’s take on Bush is one of the most iconic impersonations in “SNL” history, setting Forte’s bar impossibly high. Popular on Variety “Will Ferrell was George Bush!