[Shaun]

Ron Burgundy and his mustache traveled all the way from the 1970s to do three things tonight:

1.) Play some kick-ass jazz flute on TBS’s Conan.

2.) Tell Conan O’Brien he looks like he’s dying.

3.) Announce that his 2004 movie, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, is now getting a sequel.

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Clad in his character’s signature wine-colored suit, Will Ferrell appears on tonight’s show and early footage has already leaked out. He made some crude sexual comparisons between his flute and his penis before praising O’Brien and sidekick Andy Richter for being “outstanding broadcasters.”

The pompous anchor of San Diego’s Action 4 News had only one criticism: “It’s probably only something a professional like me would notice, but Conan — you look awful.”

Burgundy insisted he was only giving the late-night host some tough love. “You look like someone put a bright red fright wig on a skeleton. And chucked it out of a helicopter,” Burgundy said. “I’m being kind right here.”

He offered O’Brien some words of advice: Fire his hair, make-up, and wardrobe people. “Just go under the knife, okay?” he suggested. “Go into your doctor’s office and point at your face and say, ‘Doc, it’s a page-one rewrite.’”

Almost as an afterthought, Burgundy got around to the point of his appearance:

“As of 0900 Mountain Time, Paramount Pictures and myself, Ronald Joseph Aaron Burgundy, have come to terms on a sequel to Anchorman,” he declared. “It is official! There will be a sequel to Anchorman. There will be a sequel.”

He then walked off, tootling his flute.

Will Steve Carell, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, and David Koechner also be returning? Will more than eight years have elapsed in Ron Burgundy’s time-period, or is he still smack in the middle of the 1970s? When will this movie begin shooting or hit theaters?

Like any smart newsman, Burgundy didn’t stick around to answer questions.

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I HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE EXCITED FOR ANYTHING EVER

[Ramsay]

there is a god

[GypsyGoth]

!!!

[King Gizzard]

Don't think it's a sequel type of movie, probably kill it

[Ramsay]

i wont care if its **** im just so buzzed at the idea of the team all back together again lol

[Marc]

OH MY GOD! It's going to be awful but I don't care!

[Tom4784]

[Kate!]

Will Ferrell

[Shaun]

Anchorman writer/director Adam Mackay has teased more plot details about the forthcoming sequel.

A second outing for Will Ferrell as 1970s newsreader Ron Burgundy was confirmed in recent weeks, with most of the original cast returning. And now Mackay has revealed that the film will see the unreconstructed Burgundy struggling to cope with progress.

He told Empire: "We know these guys never deal well with change, and the good thing is that there’s a big blast of change coming, according to the regular timeline. We're going to be throwing a lot of innovation at them, and they're not going to handle it well."

Mackay continued: "It's right when all the news started changing with the 24-hour news cycle in '78 or '79. All of a sudden, local news stations diversified and had Latino anchors and African-American anchors, and any time you’re talking about diversity and the Action News team, that’s always fun to deal with."

But fans will have to wait a while longer for the hyped sequel. On the progress of the script, Mackay added: "We've done about two per cent! Half a per cent? We’ve got five pages of story notes and chunks of story. We’re holing up writing for the next three months."

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[Vanessa]

I love Anchorman! Funniest movie ever!

[Marc]

So they're going to be introducing an old wooden ship?

[the truth]

Originally Posted by Marc

So they're going to be introducing an old wooden ship?

yes thats diversity sailing into dock

[Shaun]

I hope so

[Niamh.]

I don't know if this is a good or a bad thing

[Shaun]

I think as long as it doesn't try to repeat too many of the first film's jokes, it should be good. Will Ferrell films usually are

[Niamh.]

Yeah, I know, I hate when they ruin films by making sequels though

[daniel-lewis-1985]

*Orgasms

[MTVN]

I thought Anchorman was overrated

[Iceman]

Originally Posted by MTVN

I thought Anchorman was overrated

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[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by MTVN

I thought Anchorman was overrated

Originally Posted by Iceman

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[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by MTVN

I thought Anchorman was overrated

You don't like it? I think Will Ferrell is hilarious in it!

[Shaun]

it's probably something you have to 'get'... along with taste -kicks you both out-

no I can see why people aren't so hyped about it. I thought it was one of the best comedies of the 00s though.

[Iceman]

I liked it I just have weird taste in movies.

[Z]

I go back and forth on my opinion of Anchorman. It's a bit too left field for me to find laugh out loud funny, but I enjoy watching it. I think a sequel's a bad idea but I'll definitely go see it.

[Shaun]

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