You should take your probably unlicensed, store bought costume of a famous movie or TV character and throw it in the garbage if you think you’ll top the real Julianne Moore actually acting as opposed to just taking pictures when in Times Square.
Leave it to Billy Eichner and Billy on the Street to stir up this beautiful madness.
With so many failed attempts by manager Max Gold/the hysterical Conner O’Malley over the phone to get Joe Pera a comedy gig on a cruise, he finally thinks sending Joe down to a cruise terminal as well as the famous/infamous Times Square will work.
See if it does in the latest episode of How To Make It in USA here.
Such is a time and a place in either NYC’s Time Square or Hollywood and Highland here in LA these days that people can buy very good (or, in many cases, not so good costumes) of famous characters from TV and movies in order to make a living.
Leave it to Conan’s Triumph the Insult Comic Dog to shake down the whole take pictures with tourists for tips “industry”. Watch what one of the most famous costumed characters, Triumph, in late night does to Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Buzz Lightyear, Cookie Monster, and more.