"Elf" became a modern holiday classic almost ... we're meant to laugh at — but none of it is funny to me. Buddy eating cotton balls, running toward moving taxi cabs, and even exposing a ...

Will Ferrell admits he was a bit of a cotton-headed ninnymuggins. The Elf star shared that his late costar James Caan often got fed up with his jokes on the set of the 2003 holiday film.