The ‘More Cowbell’ Cowbell Joins a Gutenberg Bible at the Harry Ransom Center

The ‘More Cowbell’ Cowbell Joins a Gutenberg Bible at the Harry Ransom Center

A young Will Ferrell, Chris Parnell, and Jimmy Fallon shuffle around a staged recording studio, holding guitars. Nearly unrecognizable beneath floppy, shagged wigs, the trio reenacts the capture of the 1976 hit “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper.” The audience erupts with laughter each time Christopher Walken bursts through the studio door as a producer insisting the song needs “More cowbell.” It’s hard to name a single, defining sketch from Saturday Nigh…