Will Ferrell has spent more than three decades making audiences laugh, from his time on SNL to big-screen favorites like Stepbrothers, Elf and Barbie. But beyond acting, it sounds like he has another, far more low-key way of bringing in money.
In a recent conversation, the comedian said he’s taken on an unexpectedly ordinary side gig to earn some extra cash.
Ferrell explained that he’s been turning up at the Rose Bowl Flea Market in Pasadena, California — a monthly market held on the second Sunday of every month — to sell items in person.
“I’ve been selling t-shirts at the Rose Bowl Swap Meet,” Ferrell, 58, revealed on the Harland Highway podcast in March.
“T-shirts and ukuleles…they’re t-shirts that I thrift. I find them, I get them and then I up-sell them,” Ferrell stated. “[I have] a little table, ukuleles and t-shirts. I clean up. I do pretty well.”
Asked what that actually amounts to per market, he said he pulls in “a couple hundy.”
After the podcast episode circulated, plenty of people questioned whether the story was genuine, with some assuming it had to be a bit.
Then, the Old Town Pasadena Instagram account added fuel to the conversation by posting the clip themselves.
“Catch Will Ferrell at the Pasadena flea market selling T-shirts at his booth like it’s the most normal thing in the world 😂,” they wrote in the caption.
Rather than clearing things up, the post seemed to leave even more people unsure about whether this was truly Ferrell’s weekend routine or simply a playful promotion for the market.
“Is he be serious or is he joking? Bc you never know with him lol,” one fan asked.
Another questioned, “Is this to get people to go back to the rose bowl flea? Because I’m sold. And so are his shirts and ukulele.”
“I have not seen him there. Lol,” said a third.
Whether or not the flea-market hustle is as regular as described hasn’t been definitively confirmed, but Ferrell is still busy on the next major project on his schedule: a Netflix comedy series titled The Hawk, where he’ll play fictional golf icon Lonnie “The Hawk” Hawkins.
Backed by the PGA Tour, the series centers on a once-dominant golfer attempting one last return to form.
The show is set to run for ten episodes and also stars Molly Shannon, Luke Wilson, and Fortune Feimster.
The Hawk is scheduled to premiere on Netflix in Summer 2026