Since Billy On The Street is moving to truTV and TBS for its next season, Billy Eichner might going be bigger with his games, shouting, etc.
A perfect example is this special web edition of Billy On The Street with First Lady Of The United States Michelle Obama, Big Bird, and Billy’s favorite contestant Elena roving through a grocery store.
Note how Elena’s excitement throughout this whole thing is pretty priceless.
Not only are we going to get to see America’s favorite “pop culture inquisitor” Billy Eichner return to the streets for a fourth season to question any and all, famous or not about his personal pop culture obsessions, but we’ll get two different networks to watch it on.
Eichner and company are moving from Fuse to both truTV and TBS in their fourth season as well, perhaps, going somewhere else (Billy is taking suggestions) besides various parts of NYC.
So, all of America needs to prep their knowledge on Meryl Streep for later this year.
We’re not exactly sure what you’re thinking or feeling right now, but if you’re down for any number of reasons that just saw in any sort of news or social media feed, then you might need something to brighten your day, even a little.
We’re recommending you watch Billy Eichner singing his very own Taylor Swift style song “Glitter and Ribs” live on Conan. With any luck, Taylor Swift will do a cover of it soon.
(via Variety)
Once, it was a pilot at the USA Network, but now, Difficult People with Billy Eichner and Julie Klausner has gone straight to series over at Hulu.
Amy Poehler is still on board as an executive producer and the show merely follows whatever the hell Eichner and Klausner get themselves into in NYC.
So, all the elements of this show (the cast, producers, premise, and it being at Hulu) promise something that has the potential to be pretty fantastic.
(via The Hollywood Reporter)
We’re glad to see the TV ecosystem act properly and giving more guest starring roles to Billy Eichner.
A guest starring role on New Girl coming up as an annoyed airline employee is exactly what should be happening for Eichner. We’re sure Billy screaming at an airport will be that episode’s highlight.
Turns out David Letterman is a big fan of Billy on the Street and Billy Eichner. In fact, he’s so much a fan that he gleefully played one of Billy’s game while Eichner was on The Late Show and thoroughly enjoyed getting answers wrong.
Billy also shared his experiences with the late Joan Rivers who was also a fan of Billy’s and helped him get noticed.
Really, any excuse that Billy Eichner can come up with to yell pop culture trivia at any and all pedestrians is good enough for us to watch and enjoy.
This excuse just happens to be The Primetime Emmys and having host Seth Meyers running around with him. Watch it here.
(via Deadline)
The former agent of Billy Eichner, W. Kamau Bell, Loren Bouchard, Katie Dippold, Seth Grahame-Smith, Lesley Arfin, and more is now slotted at Universal TV as a VP of Comedy Development.
With such a former client list, we’re crossing our fingers that some interesting and very funny projects are set to come through Universal TV’s pipeline.
(via Entertainment Weekly)
CBS’ The Millers just got a lot more enticing with the addition of guest starring roles for Billy Eichner and Rhys Darby in their upcoming season. Eichner is set to play an ex-husband that has a crush on Will Arnett’s Nathan and Rhys Darby will play a sort of a fantasy novel series author/a George R.R. Martin type, perhaps.
So do be on the look out for that when it comes back Oct. 30th.
(via The Hollywood Reporter)
Billy On The Street’s Billy Eichner is set to write his first book, which, as you might expect, will deal with Hollywood and pop culture. Grand Central Publishing will release the currently untitled book.
What we’re wondering is if there will be certain pages, given Eichner’s penchant for screaming, that will just have exclamation marks.
Billy On The Street took one of their games to the next level by having the very subject of the game play the game itself. Of course, we’re talking about Drew Barrymore being a contestant in Would Drew Barrymore Like That?
As you might imagine, Drew starts to suspect how well she knows herself vs. Billy. Watch it all go down here.
Billy Eichner and Julie Klausner to Star in Amy Poehler Pilot Presentation at USA Network
Billy Eichner and Julie Klausner are set to star in (and as) Difficult People, a comedy pilot presentation for USA Network with Amy Poehler executive producing.
Given all the elements involved, we have a hard time imagining this wouldn’t go to series at USA.
Billy Eichner shouting about whether Shakira would theoretically know about certain things to Patton Oswalt and Oswalt defending his answers is just good ol’ bizarre fun.
So, Amy Poehler wears a mask of recording artist Pitbull and is led around by Billy Eichner to surprise people that she is indeed not Pitbull, but Amy Poehler in Billy On The Street’s latest game.
Of course, the results are great. Watch here.
Last night, Joel McHale participated in a bit called the Mo’Lympics, a metaphorical obstacle course through the career of film and TV star Mo’Nique on an episode of Billy On The Street.
For whatever reason, McHale vs. the Mo’Nique obstacle course turned into McHale vs. Billy Eichner in a thoroughly entertaining verbal match the likes of which should be in a roast of either one of them.
Vulture Is Having a Festival a One Hell of a Comedy Night
The first ever Vulture Festival is coming this May in NYC and they’ve programmed quite the line-up for their evening of comedy at The Bell House including Billy Eichner, Mike Birbiglia, Chelsea Peretti, Abbi Jacobson, Ilana Glazer, and Jessica Williams.
We hope that Billy Eichner does Billy On The Street-esque bits throughout the evening, wandering throughout the audience.
You really don’t need to know more than the headline and that Billy On The Street is pretty great/what you should be watching.
Watch the clip here
As Jimmy Fallon loves games and Billy Eichner was a guest last night on The Tonight Show, it was the perfect opportunity for Jimmy to do a Tonight Show version of Billy on the Street.
Thus, they did Billy in the Audience, complete with all the running and screaming you’ve come to know and love. Don’t forget that season 3 of Billy on the Street premieres tonight on Fuse at 11PM.
Jimmy Kimmel Live gave a sneak peak of the new season of Billy On The Street that doesn’t premiere until March.
Thankfully, aggressively quizzing people with Christmas carols along with Amy Poehler is pretty amazing so it’ll kill some to most of the time until the premiere. Watch the clip here.
Billy Eichner Joining Sam Elliott as Eagleton Doppelganger in Parks and Recreation
The cast of doppelgangers for upcoming episodes of Parks and Recreation is shaping up quite nicely as Sam Elliott, and now Billy Eichner from Billy on the Street, will play Eagleton, rival town to Pawnee, equivalents of the original cast.
We wonder if they’ll get Randy from Funny People to play opposite Tom.
Funny Or Die’s ‘Billy On The Street’ Gets Another Season at Fuse
This news counts for a 3rd season for ‘Billy On The Street’, which we’re hoping will make for a DVD box set complete with a list of what you should yell at people on the street for as compiled by Billy Eichner.