Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

Most people think so. 80% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics gave it 64%.

It's the 1970s and San Diego anchorman Ron Burgundy is the top dog in local TV, but that's all about to change when ambitious reporter Veronica Corningstone arrives as a new employee at his station. Wikipedia ↗

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is a 2004 American comedy directed by Adam McKay. Will Ferrell stars as Ron Burgundy, the supremely confident, magnificently dim-witted anchor of San Diego's top-rated news team in 1974, whose chauvinistic worldview is challenged when Veronica Corningstone, played by Christina Applegate, is hired as the station's first female anchor. The film's comedy was built on the contrast between Ron's pathological self-assurance and his actual incompetence — his complete inability to function off-script, his reliance on his equally idiotic news team (including Steve Carell's brick-dumb weatherman Brick Tamland), and his genuine bewilderment that a woman could be his professional equal.

Will Ferrell's improvisational approach generated legendary amounts of unused material — so much was filmed that an entire alternate cut called Wake Up, Ron Burgundy was assembled from deleted scenes. Anchorman earned $90 million worldwide on a $26 million budget and became one of the most quoted comedies of the 2000s.