American - Comedian | September 18, 1978 -
The 'Billy On The Street' persona is truly inspired by who I was as a child - obviously not having an adult perspective on the world.
Billy Eichner
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I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win. I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.
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Award shows are fun but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
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The streets of New York are diverse, but when you go into a Broadway show, unless Denzel Washington is in it, or Fantasia's in it, it's a lot of old white people and gay men.
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Our pop cultural likes and dislikes are still very segregated, and that is not true of 'Billy on the Street.'
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There are certain people you're allowed to pick apart and certain people you're not.
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I've never even been invited to the GLAAD awards, to sit in the audience. I don't necessarily care, and I'm sure they will one day, and it will be fine, but I've never been invited to anything like that.
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'Billy On The Street' has no doubt always been about the people we talk to. That being said, it thrills me that the show really has a dedicated following in the comedy world.
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It's one thing to hear that someone likes your show; it's a completely different thing to have them come take their time and film something with you on a sidewalk.
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Even when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn't finding my way in, I knew what I had to do. I knew I had to keep working at it and keep putting material out there, even if no one was paying me for it.
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If you're on TV, you can't complain, right? And I understand that, and it's true to a certain degree.
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Entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me.
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