--- title: Watch Will Ferrell Pretend There Is Not a Bird on His Shoulder description: "I don't want to talk about my personal life, okay?" canonical: https://time.com/3761240/will-ferrell-bird-conan/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-27T11:52:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T05:29:47.713Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch Will Ferrell Pretend There Is Not a Bird on His Shoulder og:description: "I don't want to talk about my personal life, okay?" og:url: https://time.com/3761240/will-ferrell-bird-conan/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4ade9cd22a8240fc/6987858a06f2c13fbc334a1b/will-ferrell.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: will-ferrell og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Will Ferrell Pretend There Is Not a Bird on His Shoulder twitter:description: "I don't want to talk about my personal life, okay?" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4ade9cd22a8240fc/6987858a06f2c13fbc334a1b/will-ferrell.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Will Ferrell Pretend There Is Not a Bird on His Shoulder on Conan by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Mar 27, 2015 11:52 AM CUT  Will Ferrell Honored with a Star on The Hollywood Walk Of Fame on March 24, 2015 in Hollywood, California. Will Ferrell Honored with a Star on The Hollywood Walk Of Fame on March 24, 2015 in Hollywood, California.Albert L. Ortega—Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Mar 27, 2015 11:52 AM CUT It’s so hard for celebrities to maintain a sense of privacy these days. So when Will Ferrell visited Conan O’Brien on Thursday night, he just wanted to be left alone when it came to questions about the bird sitting on his shoulder, Professor Feathers. Doesn’t anyone have boundaries anymore? ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3761240/will-ferrell-bird-conan/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3761240/will-ferrell-bird-conan/"},"headline":"Watch Will Ferrell Pretend There Is Not a Bird on His Shoulder on Conan","datePublished":"2015-03-27T11:52:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T05:29:47.713Z","description":"\"I don't want to talk about my personal life, okay?\"","url":"https://time.com/3761240/will-ferrell-bird-conan/","keywords":["Television","Conan O'brien","Will Ferrell"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4ade9cd22a8240fc/6987858a06f2c13fbc334a1b/will-ferrell.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4ade9cd22a8240fc/6987858a06f2c13fbc334a1b/will-ferrell.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"will-ferrell","caption":"Will Ferrell Honored with a Star on The Hollywood Walk Of Fame on March 24, 2015 in Hollywood, California.","creditText":"Albert L. Ortega—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3761240/will-ferrell-bird-conan/","name":"Watch Will Ferrell Pretend There Is Not a Bird on His Shoulder on Conan"}}]}] ```