Since his star-making days on “Saturday Night Live,” Will Ferrell has built his career on playing hilariously named, over-the-top characters. It's a tradition that will continue when Ferrell portrays marginal 1970s basketball player Jackie Moon in “Semi-Pro.”

Here are some of Ferrell's more eccentric on-screen portrayals.

‘BLADES OF GLORY'
YEAR: 2007
CHARACTER: Chazz Michael Michaels, the foul-mouthed, leather jacket-wearing bad boy/rock star of the male figure skating circuit.
BEST LINE: “Troubled childhood? If you consider a nine-year-old kid with a 35-year-old girlfriend troubled.”

‘TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY'
YEAR: 2006
CHARACTER: Ricky Bobby, the Southern, dimwitted, stereotypical depiction of your average NASCAR competitor.
BEST LINE: (as a TV pitchman) “I'm Ricky Bobby. If you don't chew Big Red, then f**k you.”

‘WEDDING CRASHERS'
YEAR: 2005
CHARACTER: Chazz Reinhold, a former wedding crasher who now picks up women at funerals, mostly because their fragile emotional state paves an easier road to casual sex.
BEST LINE: (after escorting out a recent sexual conquest) “Yeah, her boyfriend just died in a hang-gliding accident. What an idiot! What a loser!”

‘ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY'
YEAR: 2004
CHARACTER: Ron Burgundy, the Scotch-sipping, jazz flute-playing, bad suit-wearing stereotype of your typical 1970s-era newsman.
BEST LINE: “You stay classy, San Diego.”

‘A NIGHT AT THE ROXBURY'
YEAR: 1998
CHARACTER: Steve Butabi, one half of the Butabi brothers, a pair of dance club-hopping losers who make women uncomfortable with their awkward sexual advances.
BEST LINE: (after Steve's brother, Doug Butabi, tells their father he can't take away their dreams) “Yeah, because we're, like, sleeping when we have them.”

Clint Hale | 210SA