Television viewers grew to love comic actor and writer Will Ferrell through the stable of popular characters he created during his tenure on the perennial “Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 1975- ). But after seven years of playing an earnest male cheerleader, an addled President George W. Bush and a passionate cowbell player, Ferrell moved on to the big screen where he carved out a niche with leading roles as immature, but likable everymen or as outrageous, larger-than-life supporting characters in ensemble comedies. Ferrell used his inherent mild-mannered personality and all-American looks to his