A remark made during a screening of A Night at the Roxbury in 1998 is something that Will Ferrell can still recall quite clearly, having made an impression on the comedic actor. Back in the 1990s, Ferrell and Chris Kattan had popularized a segment on Saturday Night Live that saw the two as head-bobbing bachelors visiting dance clubs while Haddaway’s “What Is Love?” plays all the while. The recurring sketch had gotten to be so popular that it was turned into the feature-length film A Night at the Roxbury. Ferrell and Kattan penned the screenplay with Steve Koren while John Fortenberry directed the comedy.

While the film does have a cult following, it wasn’t exactly a big hit, as it was pummeled with negative reviews upon its release. But it was something said in the movie theater that seems to have bothered Ferrell more than anything else. In a new interview with THR, Ferrell joins several other actors in naming the “funniest mean thing” that’s ever been said about them. For Ferrell, it was something he’d heard from a young filmgoer seated right in front of him when he snuck into a screening of A Night at the Roxbury to see first-hand how people reacted. Here’s what happened, as Ferrell explains:

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A Night at the Roxbury didn’t have the hottest reception with critics, but there are enough people who appreciate the film that Chris Kattan continues to be asked about the prospects of a sequel. It’s a decision that is not up to him, but he said earlier this year that he’d love to reunite with Will Ferrell to make the potential movie. It’s not something he spoke to Ferrell about directly, but Kattan finds himself wondering where the Butabi brothers would be at at this point in their lives.

“I think it would be fun, you know,” Kattan told TMZ in May. “I think we’d see where we are at this point. He’s probably married to Molly Shannon’s character, and I’m probably, I don’t know, in prison. My character is. And I’m trying to get out, I’m trying to get the club life back together. Clubs are obviously different now than they were then, but we’re older, and we’re trying to be amongst the younger ones. And there might be a third Roxbury guy, maybe a long-lost brother, who knows? I think that might be fun. That’s just an idea.”

If a sequel happens, chances are Will Ferrell won’t be heading into the movie theater to see it with fans.