Articles and Links

Important Articles

• The A.V. Club (first article to describe them as a “pack” but negative points for referring to them as the Slacker Pack)
• Wilson and Vaughn: Leaders of the ‘Frat Pack’ (USA Today’s seminal article: first to call them the Frat Pack)
• Unlikely heroes of the box office: The Frat Pack (the original movie chart)
• USA Today; ‘Frat Pack’ splits (2006 follow-up article)
• USA Today: Frat Pack persona: Archetype casting (includes analysis by the Frat Pack Tribute)
• Leave it Fox News to write a negative story about our beloved Frat Pack: 
  Too Much Shtick From ‘The Frat Pack’?
• They’re In on the Joke: Hollywood’s Funniest Clique
• Not So Funny Anymore: Squabbling and Spiraling Costs Dissolve a Comedy Mill. Describes the management relationships that brought the Pack together, and that is keeping them apart.
• The Frat Pack: A new boy’s club of comic actors is taking over Hollywood (an intellectual view of the Frat Pack)
• Metalanguage, Comedy, and the ‘Frat Pack’ as Community of Practice: What does that even mean?, a scholarly article detailing the use of common language in five Frat Pack films.

Additional Articles

• The Wild Bunch: Vaughn and Wilson’s Funny Friends. Gotta love the inclusion of Bateman, Carrell, and Favreau in this article. (VH1)
• The Bottom Line: The Frat Pack is Back. This quote sums up our love of the Frat Pack actors: “Long before the Frat Pack, Stiller carved himself a niche as Generation X’s comic authority on the pop cultural landscape.” (Hollywood.com)
• Frat Packers just get better. Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell and company take over Hollywood
• Wilson and Vaughn Are ‘Wedding Crashers’
• Boys’ Life - Frat Pack Back on Track This Summer 2006 Summer Movie Preview includes Paul Rudd in the Frat Pack.
• Profile of Sorority Sister Missi Pyle and the Frat Pack:
  Hey! It’s That Guy: Missi Pyle
• Ben talks about the Frat Pack in the second video clip:
  Ben Stiller’s BBC Films Dodgeball Interview
• The New “Rat Pack” - Stiller, Wilson, Wilson, Vaughn, Ferrell
• The Old School Frat Chats (interview with Vince and Luke)
• Pack ‘em in: Stiller’s pals party on (Vince gives credit to Ben Stiller for enabling the Frat Pack)
• Slap shtick film rivals - article compares the Frat Pack to Adam Sandler’s “Slap Pack.”
• Summer Sneaks: Dinner for Schmucks - calls Paul Rudd a member of the Pack