The fast and the funny: Ferrell's NASCAR spoof

Ricky Bobby gets to have his cupcakes - and his KFC and Domino's and Country Crock - and eat them, too. The absurdly funny Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, with Will Ferrell as a natural-born stock car star, is at once a glorious send-up of NASCAR culture and a goofy celebration of the redneck, red state, red-blooded American culture that spawned it. Written by Ferrell and Adam McKay, and directed by McKay - the same distribution of duties they shared in the almost-as-lengthily-titled Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy - Talladega Nights is the follow-your-dream saga of a North Carolina knucklehead who lives by the motto, "If you ain't first, you're last."