A Confederacy of Dunces

Will Ferrell has always held an appeal among the smarter and more savvy breeds of comedy nerds. Frankly, these are the kind of people who have both seen every episode of Newsradio and have also read A Confederacy of Dunces. That’s why his never-realized attempt to star in the book’s adaptation and meld artful ambition with absurdism has long captivated those who have only had the good but not great Stranger than Fiction to console them.