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Two “Saturday Night Live” legends just crashed the most useless video call in corporate America.

As offices across the country scrambled onto Zoom in March 2020, Funny Or Die’s recurring sketch series Long Haired Businessmen found its perfect setting: a multi-pane video conference. The bit, titled “Long Haired Businessmen Video Conference with Will Ferrell and Will Forte,” dropped the show’s three regular “team leaders” into a call alongside the two SNL alumni, all five men sporting the series’ trademark oversized, feathered wigs while spouting corporate nonsense about a pandemic none of them seem equipped to actually address.

• The sketch is produced by Funny Or Die as part of its ongoing Long Haired Businessmen series, created by and starring George Kareman (as Seth), Patrick O’Brien (as Kyle), and Ben Wietmarschen (as Kevin).
• Will Ferrell and Will Forte guest star as additional “team leaders,” appearing in the same comically oversized wigs and suits as the show’s regulars.
• The episode reformats the show’s usual corporate-jargon premise into a Zoom-style video call, satirizing crisis communications and remote work during the early COVID-19 lockdowns.

A Running Bit Finds Its Moment

Long Haired Businessmen had already built a small cult following on Funny Or Die before the pandemic hit, built entirely around one joke stretched to absurd lengths: three straight-faced corporate executives, all wearing conspicuously fake, voluminous bouffant wigs that nobody in the sketch ever acknowledges. Kareman, O’Brien, and Wietmarschen play Seth, Kyle, and Kevin — team leaders at an unnamed company who communicate almost entirely in hollow buzzwords.

When offices shut down and every white-collar job in America suddenly became a grid of faces on a laptop screen, the format practically wrote itself. Swapping a boardroom for a video-conference grid gave the joke new legs, and by late March or early April 2020 Funny Or Die had the pandemic-specific installment ready to go, with Ferrell and Forte slotted in as guest executives in matching wigs.

Corporate Jargon Meets a Pandemic

The premise is simple and doesn’t pretend to be anything else: five executives who look like they raided a costume shop’s Fabio bin get “looped in” over video chat and proceed to say absolutely nothing useful. The characters trade the show’s signature meaningless phrases — “circling the wagons,” “touching base,” getting everyone “looped in” — while attempting to offer workplace guidance on handwashing, safety protocols, and keeping “business operations” running during a health emergency.

Five executives in identical oversized wigs, none of them acknowledging the hair, all of them “circling the wagons” on a pandemic they clearly don’t understand.

Ferrell and Forte slide into the format without breaking it — same deadpan delivery, same refusal to explain the wigs, same commitment to corporate-speak that says nothing while sounding urgent. It’s the kind of guest-star cameo that works because it doesn’t try to outshine the bit; it just adds two more famous faces to the row of ridiculous hair.

Factors Driving Real-Time Format Adoption

Plenty of shows tried to make quick, topical pandemic content in those first chaotic weeks of lockdown, with mixed results — see the wave of remote-recorded talk-show segments and the celebrity Zoom reunions that flooded social media at the same time. What set the Long Haired Businessmen installment apart is that it didn’t need to reinvent itself to fit the moment; the show’s entire engine — people confidently saying nothing while ignoring something obviously absurd about their appearance — was already built for satirizing corporate non-answers, and a pandemic gave it the richest possible target.

It’s also a tidy companion piece to the broader wave of pandemic-era workplace comedy and commentary that cropped up online that spring, including pieces on how companies and public figures handled their own employees during the same stretch of lockdowns. Where those stories dealt in real consequences, the Funny Or Die sketch just lets the jargon speak for itself — and lets it sound exactly as empty as it always does.

Funny Or Die kept the Long Haired Businessmen series rolling with more episodes after this one, but the Ferrell-Forte installment remains the format’s biggest swing — two A-list comedic actors willing to put on the same ridiculous wig as the regulars and never once mention it.