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Contents:
- BILLY EICHNER SAYS BILLY ON THE STREET WAS A BRIDGE BETWEEN GAY AND STRAIGHT PEOPLE
- BILLY EICHNER ON HIS GAY ROM- "BROS"
- BILLY EICHNER TALKS ABOUT BEG GAY THIS ‘BRIEF BUT SPECTACULAR’ VIO – WATCH
- DO GAY PEOPLE CARE ABOUT JOHN OLIVER? WH JOHN OLIVER
- ‘BILLY ON THE STREET’ ASKS: DO GAY PEOPLE CARE ABOUT JOHN OLIVER?
- ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A GAY FIFTH GRAR?
BILLY EICHNER SAYS BILLY ON THE STREET WAS A BRIDGE BETWEEN GAY AND STRAIGHT PEOPLE
"I'm never gog to do half-hour episos of 'Billy on the Street' aga," says Eichner, whose gay rom- 'Bros' is due September. * billy on the street gay *
"I'm never gog to do half-hour episos of Billy on the Street aga, " says Eichner, who also reveals plans for his next project: a gay-divorce edy. “I never thought a major stud would do an thentilly gay film, ” says Billy Eichner, “and treat the same way they would treat Brismaids or 40-Year-Old Virg or Fettg Sarah Marshall.
BILLY EICHNER ON HIS GAY ROM- "BROS"
Billy Eichner 'bros' out wh Pl Rudd to plug his gay rom-. * billy on the street gay *
” Eichner is the star of Bros, the groundbreakg, hilar gay rom- he also -wrote, which — fyg his ial doubts — is due theaters Sept.
“You don’t s there as a kid thkg, ‘Oh, I uld be the star of this movie, if only I wasn’t gay, '” he says. Bobby’s openg rant, excerpted the movie’s first trailer, is a brilliantly meta attack on the ia of makg a gay movie that’d make straight guys fortable.
For me, and a lot of my iends, when we watch some of those shows, although there are gay characters, we don’t regnize those people. There’s an archns to so many of the gay male characters we get.
BILLY EICHNER TALKS ABOUT BEG GAY THIS ‘BRIEF BUT SPECTACULAR’ VIO – WATCH
Eichner has challenged what “gay edy” uld be. Now, he's brgg an all-gay rom to theaters. * billy on the street gay *
I’m my forti, and I look around at movi general — about straight people, about gay people, pecially edi — and say, “Where are the adults? Bee y, we’re gay. Nick Stoller is a straight guy; you said that he tght you how to wre a movie and you tght him about gay culture.
DO GAY PEOPLE CARE ABOUT JOHN OLIVER? WH JOHN OLIVER
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Whereas gay men make up our own l, we create our own fai. As much as I love those movi, for gay people, pecially gay men, they never applied and they certaly don’t apply now. I wrote all the segments, and they were very topil — they took on polics and pop culture, and I was very open about beg gay.
There was a sketch that got very specific about gay sex, and straight sex, was lled “Sex Talk. ” To get onstage 2003 and talk explicly about gay sex, even New York Cy, was really phg people outsi of their fort zon.
‘BILLY ON THE STREET’ ASKS: DO GAY PEOPLE CARE ABOUT JOHN OLIVER?
In PBS's web seri "Brief But Spectacular", Billy Eichner talks about his alter ego (Billy on the Street) and how beg gay has affected his edy. * billy on the street gay *
You’ve said that you never experienced homophobia until you entered the entertament bs. Can you make a ltle ls gay this month? And I’m not sayg they were dyg for me to be gay, or absolutely thrilled that I was gay, but they knew who I was really early on.
There’s a part Bros where a teacher qutns whether elementary-school kids are old enough to learn about gay history.
ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A GAY FIFTH GRAR?
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Did that end up beg more timely than you expected given what’s gog on Florida wh the “Don’t Say Gay” law? And, I thought, “What if we did a gay versn of [the 1989 Michael Douglas-Kathleen Turner film] The War of the Ros?