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.
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"
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” 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.
BILLY EICHNER TALKS ABOUT BEG GAY THIS ‘BRIEF BUT SPECTACULAR’ VIO – WATCH
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DO GAY PEOPLE CARE ABOUT JOHN OLIVER? WH JOHN OLIVER
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‘BILLY ON THE STREET’ ASKS: DO GAY PEOPLE CARE ABOUT JOHN OLIVER?
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ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A GAY FIFTH GRAR?
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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.