--- title: Billy On the Street: Will Ferrells Yells About Christmas description: They're not exactly spreading Christmas cheer canonical: https://time.com/4144983/billy-on-the-street-will-ferrell-christmas/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-10T21:41:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:27:36.959Z og:title: Watch Will Ferrell and Billy Eichner Scream at People About Christmas Movies og:description: They're not exactly spreading Christmas cheer og:url: https://time.com/4144983/billy-on-the-street-will-ferrell-christmas/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8edba876510c2a7b/698874e5cd1bba46396fe79e/screen-shot-2015-12-10-at-2-47-56-pm.png?branch=production&width=988&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 988 og:image:height: 556 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2015-12-10 at 2.47.56 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Will Ferrell and Billy Eichner Scream at People About Christmas Movies twitter:description: They're not exactly spreading Christmas cheer twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8edba876510c2a7b/698874e5cd1bba46396fe79e/screen-shot-2015-12-10-at-2-47-56-pm.png?branch=production&width=988&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Will Ferrell and Billy Eichner Scream at People About Christmas Movies > Sponsored content. 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Sometimes they give people dollars for answering questions correctly. In the latest clip, Will Ferrell, star of _Elf_, joins Eichner to yell at people about Christmas and test their knowledge of seasonal films. As you can tell by the way everyone is dressed, this was clearly taped during warmer months—so people simply don’t have Christmas on the brain. Some people are legitimately terrified by the shouting. One woman just completely dodges them, prompting Eichner to scoff, “What a little Christmas bitch.” _Read next:_ [_Watch a Santa on a ‘Hoverboard’ Crash Into a Christmas Tree_](http://time.com/4138415/hoverboard-santa/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4144983/billy-on-the-street-will-ferrell-christmas/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4144983/billy-on-the-street-will-ferrell-christmas/"},"headline":"Watch Will Ferrell and Billy Eichner Scream at People About Christmas Movies","datePublished":"2015-12-10T21:41:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:27:36.959Z","description":"They're not exactly spreading Christmas cheer","url":"https://time.com/4144983/billy-on-the-street-will-ferrell-christmas/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8edba876510c2a7b/698874e5cd1bba46396fe79e/screen-shot-2015-12-10-at-2-47-56-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8edba876510c2a7b/698874e5cd1bba46396fe79e/screen-shot-2015-12-10-at-2-47-56-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2015-12-10 at 2.47.56 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4144983/billy-on-the-street-will-ferrell-christmas/","name":"Watch Will Ferrell and Billy Eichner Scream at People About Christmas Movies"}}]}] ```