Will Ferrell vs. Chad Smith Drum-Off Has Happened, and It Was Glorious

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Stan Schroeder
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Will Ferrell vs. Chad Smith Drum-Off Has Happened, and It Was Glorious
Will Ferrell and Chad Smith during a drum-off on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Credit: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Finally. After months of waiting filled with mockery, hits below the belt and (we assume) furious preparation from both sides, we know who's the best drummer in the world.

Of course, since Chad Smith and Will Ferrell look exactly the same (we're not kidding -- look at them, it's the same damn person) there are no practical ramifications of the drum-off, hosted Thursday on Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show. As Will Ferrell once put it, "there is no Will Ferrell. Only Chad Smith".

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Still, the drum-off itself was all you could ask for -- a lot of tension, a lot of great drumming, and a surprise at the end. We're not going to spoil it for you: just check it out for yourself in the video above.

In the video below, you can see another clip from The Tonight Show, in which the two drumming prodigies -- OK, make that one drumming prodigy and one cowbell prodigy -- discuss their long-standing rivalry.

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