Needs More Cowbell Meme Generator

What is the Needs More Cowbell Meme?

Will Ferrell playing cowbell in the famous SNL sketch. Used for anything that "needs more" of something, or for enthusiastically adding too much of one thing.

Also Known As

• Will Ferrell Cowbell
• SNL Cowbell Sketch
• More Cowbell Meme
• Christopher Walken Cowbell
• Blue Oyster Cult SNL
• Gene Frenkle Meme

About the Needs More Cowbell Meme

Will Ferrell in a tight shirt, banging a cowbell with the enthusiasm of a man possessed. The recording studio backdrop. The other band members trying to play seriously. Somewhere off-camera, Christopher Walken is nodding approvingly. This image radiates the specific energy of someone adding way too much of one ingredient and insisting it's not enough.

From the 2000 Saturday Night Live sketch featuring Will Ferrell as Gene Frenkle, the fictional cowbell player for Blue Oyster Cult. Christopher Walken plays music producer Bruce Dickinson, who keeps insisting the band needs "more cowbell." Ferrell plays the cowbell with increasing intensity, his belly peeking out from a too-small shirt. The sketch became one of SNL's most iconic moments and "more cowbell" became a catchphrase for wanting more of anything.

How to Make a Needs More Cowbell Meme

1. Open the Needs More Cowbell template from the SNL sketch
2. Add top text with the situation that needs improvement
3. Add bottom text referencing the need for "more cowbell" or whatever the thing needs more of
4. The sketch's energy of passionate excess makes any "needs more" joke land
5. Download your prescription for more cowbell

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