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What makes you laugh?
LUKE WILSON: I always laugh the hardest at the stuff you see in day-to-day life. It's great when somebody can tell a joke that really makes you laugh hard, but to see some kind of personal interaction that no one could write is so good. Those are always the things that make me laugh.

WILL FERRELL: Anything with Paul Lynde.

VINCE VAUGHN: Like I said, people that are over-committed to stuff that from your perspective seems ridiculous. Those are the things that make me laugh. I like Paul Lynde as well, but Will took that one.

What are your best Snoop Dogg stories from the set?
WILL FERRELL: Snoopy, as I like to call him. That was probably more intimidating because we shot that the very last day of shooting. I had already done the streaking part by myself but to actually be in front of Snoop Dogg that close - naked - was more intimidating than anything. That was a very bizarre experience, to be in front of Snoop Dogg and doing what I had to do. Once again I had my acting coach and another buddy of mine, Old English 800. He's a malt beverage acting coach. Vince played video games with Snoop.

LUKE WILSON: I didn't get to spend much time with Snoop. I wasn't under the weather, but I was in my little room watching TV. Then I ran into Vince who was speaking in tongues at that point after having spent a couple of hours in Snoop's trailer.

VINCE VAUGHN: They knocked on my door and said, "Snoop Dogg's a big fan and he wants you to come, hang out, and play video games." It was the last day of shooting and [it was] the party scene with no real dialogue except one scene that me and Snoop shot that wasn't in the movie. [My friends and I] went in there and just had a good time and played video games and laughed and hung out for a while. I came out and saw Luke; he was watching the news. He was like, "No one told me everyone was in Snoop's trailer." I said, "Groan, groan, inaudible" (imitating slurred speech).

What was the atmosphere like on the set?
LUKE WILSON: We kept having this phrase like, "Let's shoot this movie 70's style. Come on, it's us three, let's have fun." We got caught up in how well-behaved we were all the time. Really we were, and we never did manage to go '70's style' but that was our mantra throughout the whole movie. "Let's get 70's style." But we never really did do it.

VINCE VAUGHN: We had a lot of fun and were always joking around with each other. We call ourselves "The Wolfpack" because we always turn on each other and make fun of each other. It was never safe - who was getting picked on - because 5 minutes later we would turn on someone else.

LUKE WILSON: Will referred to a film I made as "Legally Bland." That didn't make me feel great.

Luke, what was it like working with Bob Dylan on his movie, "Masked & Anonymous?"
LUKE WILSON: The best experience of my life. I've always been a real big fan of his as a writer and a musician. It's about the most interesting thing I've ever gotten to do in my entire life. There are a lot of other great people in it - you wouldn't believe the other people in it. To be able to spend time with him and be around him was something I'll really, honestly, never forget. That was a real once in a lifetime thing. I've seen the movie and I'm real proud of it. [It was] just an incredible experience. It was like getting to hang out with Picasso or Shakespeare in my book. Other people might not feel the same way, but to me that's what he is.

Vince, will you work with John Favreau again?
VINCE VAUGHN: We've had a movie [in the works] for a long time, me and Favs. We've talked about it and it's just hard to get the money for it. It's about a Hasidic Jew who is a gunfighter in the Old West. It's true. Favreau plays a gun fighter who is Jewish, Favreau's mother is Jewish so he's Jewish, and he's got a beard and everything - except he's a gunfighter. It's not a comedy like he can't gun fight. He's the baddest guy in the west but on Saturday he can't shoot his gun because it's Sabbath. He can't settle down until he finds the man who killed his family. I play a hustler from Chicago who has never seen a gun or used a gun. I sleep with the wrong guy's wife and they have hit men after me. I make like [I want to help] the Jew, which is what we call the character in the movie, but really I'm just hanging out with him because I need protection from these cattle baron's hit men. When we first had "Swingers" people said "Well, we know you made 'Swingers' but we didn't see it on the page. You guys can do whatever you want to make." So we were like, "Here is our next thing. Here's the Hasidic Western." But no one has bid on it yet.

Do any of you wish you had experienced being in a fraternity?
LUKE WILSON: It's like growing up watching "Animal House." My dad was in a fraternity back in the 1950's and they sound really fun back then. Nowadays they sound like they can get a little heavy-duty in terms of the hazing and the drinking. I like the idea of a big house where you have a group of friends and you have parties there and it's laid back. I'm not so much into the idea of being made to do a bunch of insane stuff just so I can have the privilege of hanging around certain people. Either you're friends with somebody or you're not, I think. So yeah, I like the idea of a fraternity in that it's run a certain kind of way. That's probably why I was never in a fraternity.

WILL FERRELL: If you're familiar with Todd's work, he had done a documentary on fraternities so he already knew a lot of those things in terms of the cinderblock stuff and things like that. When I was in a fraternity, I never saw anything that severe. I would get yelled at. I embezzled a lot of money. And I was on the lam for a little bit. The thing is, making movies, you're creating magic and that's what we did.

VINCE VAUGHN: I never went to college. I went to CLC, the College of Lake County, and I was there for all of 2 weeks and that was it. When I came to California my parents said, "You should take classes just in case," so there's a school out here called Santa Monica Jr. College and I was there for about 2 weeks. There was going to be a quiz in this class I was taking and I also had an audition for that show "Who's the Boss." I went to the audition but I didn't get the part.

I was going to bars when I was 15 years old. I had a fake ID so when I got to be 18, everyone was doing stuff but I had done a lot of that stuff at a younger age so my focus was really on acting and trying to make a living being an actor. I love that story and I can tell it one more time. When I was in community college…