Overview
- Ferrell visited Today with Jenna & Sheinelle to promote his Netflix comedy The Hawk and played a studio game called “Putt or Dare” with cast members.
- After missing a putt, he performed three impressions and delivered his signature George W. Bush turn, quipping that Jenna Bush Hager needed “a lot of strategery” to sink the ball.
- Jenna Bush Hager laughed through the bit and presented Ferrell with a cowboy-shaped birthday cake as a nod to his SNL “More Cowbell” sketch.
- The word “strategery” was coined for a 2000 Saturday Night Live sketch by writer Jim Downey and was never actually spoken by George W. Bush.
- The segment continued a long pattern of Ferrell reviving the Bush impression for promotions and reinforced the Bush family's well-documented, good-natured attitude toward SNL parody.