Biographie

According to Darrell Hammond, the only time he cracked facing the camera was during his Donald Rumsfeld sketch when Will Forte improvised and kissed him on the cheek twice as George W. Bush.

Forte auditioned twice for SNL. He was offered a position in 2001 but turned it down to produce and write for 70s show (1998). He decided to audition again in 2002.

Has the 36th highest score in the World for the classic video game Donkey Kong! Will played the game a lot while filming Petite orgie entre amis (2011) in Wilmington, NC after seeing the movie The King of Kong (2007). His score can be seen on the official high score website of Twin Galaxies, the official keeper of world records for the Guiness book of records for video and pinball games. Will and his stand-in Leo Daniels (13th highest DK score) on the film Petite orgie entre amis (2011) are supposed to have a Donkey Kong playoff in the near future.

Attended the weddings of his Saturday Night Live (1975) cast members and good friends, Seth Meyers and Andy Samberg, in character as "Hamilton", his white supremacist but ultimately good-hearted character from the show. At Meyers' wedding to Alexi Ashe Meyers, most of Meyers' relatives had never seen or heard of "Hamilton" and were shocked when he described Ashe's great beauty and then wondered aloud (in-character) how she could marry "a hook nose". Samberg enjoyed the bit so much he asked Forte to do a "Hamilton" toast at his wedding to Joanna Newsom, and Forte spent a lot of time coming up with an entirely new set of jokes, before doing just that. At both weddings, Forte didn't break character until "Hamilton" walked off after his shocking monologues, and quickly changed into formal wear and returned to the party, as if nothing had happened.

He was almost electrocuted on the set of The Brothers Solomon (2007) when someone in the prop department accidentally plugged the battery pack of his lighted ice skating costume into an actual outlet. He claims it burned his entire chest.

"There's kind of a weird, intense energy that flows through the place. I tend to get in there about 3 or 4 in the afternoon and get out around 8 a.m. Wednesday. You end up drinking a massive amount of coffee and downing a lot of Funions." (On the Tuesday-night "SNL" writing regime)

[discussing his liberal upbringing and love of playing dress-up as a child] If I had become a cross-dresser it would have taken her just a second because my mom is very supportive and she would have loved me anyway.

I have been in a lot of things, but maybe I've cursed them all.

I'll check my stove all the time, but I haven't used the stove in 8 years. An old girlfriend of mine, we went through this test you could take on-line to see if you are OCD or not and at the end, it said get help immediately.

I don't know if I was a funny kid. I would say I was a loud and weird kid.