We have a number of talented gay edians who are exceptnally skilled at entertag the dience while passg on subtle msag on issu related to the LGBTQA+ movement.
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BILLY EICHNER ON HIS GAY ROM- "BROS"
"I'm never gog to do half-hour episos of 'Billy on the Street' aga," says Eichner, whose gay rom- 'Bros' is due September. * gay comedian on the street *
"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.
THE GREATT GAY COMEDIANS OF ALL TIME
The edian and star of "Billy on the Street" is the first openly gay man to -wre and star a gay romantic edy for a major movie stud. He talks about why 's taken so long for Hollywood to produce a rom- featurg an all-LGBTQ prcipal st. * gay comedian on the street *
“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.
” 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.
Billy Eichner, the openly gay edian, is ually the one askg the qutns. Eichner me to fame wh his award-wng, 2011-2017 tTVshow, “Billy On The Street,” where he would acst strangers on the streets of Manhattan, often wh an A-list celebry at his si. Eichner would terpt someone the middle of a jog, an * gay comedian on the street *
There’s an archns to so many of the gay male characters we get. 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.