When you’re in entertainment biz, you become public property. That’s an unfortunate side-effect of the game. So it becomes vitally necessary to keep a strict handle on the things you present to the public, and the things that you keep private. Because when that front door shuts at night when you get home from work, you still have to function as a regular human being. It doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to have an off switch, but a dimmer dial would probably be handy.
It’s not a super difficult balance to maintain, by any stretch of the imagination. You just have to be able to recognise when things are being pushed too far, and when to put your foot down.
That, absolutely, applies to protecting the ones you love.
If you don’t keep that shit under wraps, soon you might find yourself casually hanging out on a basic cable talk show with some ginger haired freak getting all up in your grill about the bird on your shoulder.
Professor Don Feathers is a goddamned SAINT, Conan O’Brien. A proud – and private – creature. And you just had to push that shit too far, didn’t you.
Honestly, the man talks to Will Ferrell like he’s never had a feathered friend adorn his shoulder from time to time.
Come on, Conan. That is tabloid churnalism. You’re better than that.
