Frat King Will Ferrell Only Plays the Hits During Surprise DJ Set at College Tailgate Party
Once a frat boy, always a frat boy. Will Ferrell returned to his old stomping grounds at the University of Southern California this weekend to surprise DJ at a fraternity party ahead of the school’s football game against the University of Arizona.
Ferrell got behind the decks at the Sigma Alpha Mu frat, and, like any good college party DJ, played only the hits while looking completely unbothered in a backward cap and shades. Videos circulating online show Ferrell dropping bangers like Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “N***as in Paris,” clapping along with Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger,” and blasting the official millennial/Gen Z national anthem, the Killers’ “Mr. Brightside,” while firing off some kind of fog gun.
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Ferrell ostensibly showed up at the frat party at the behest of his son, Magnus, who’s a student at USC. The elder Ferrell did graduate from USC in 1997, but for the record, he was a brother at the Delta Tau Delta frat (we hope they’re not too salty he didn’t show up to their rager). Ferrell has returned to USC on several occasions as well, including in 2017, when he delivered the commencement address and closed his speech with a rendition of — seriously — Whitney Houston’s take on “I Will Always Love You.”
In a fun cosmic way, too, Ferrell’s DJ set offered an alternate universe window into the life of the actor’s Old School character Frank the Tank, 20 years on. He definitely still knows how to party, but maybe a bit more responsibly, as there were no beer bongs in sight, and everybody’s clothes appeared to stay on.
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