Billy Eichner

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki · Jen Psaki in conversation with actor and author Billy Eichner · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

And my parents often learned about me and who I was and what was important to me by observing how much I cared about the artists that I love.

And chapter three is called Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone, which is Madonna's full name.

And this is from that chapter.

For my 14th birthday, my mother waited in line for hours at the Barnes & Noble in Manhattan to buy me Madonna's highly controversial and not at all intended for children book called Sex.

Sex was a coffee table book full of black and white Steven Meisel photos that less sophisticated readers might describe as softcore porn and more sophisticated pop culture connoisseurs might describe as elevated erotica with a wink.

It came sealed in plastic like Hustler magazine and was not to be sold to underage customers.

But my parents respected my devotion to Madonna and knew that I would literally have an emotional breakdown if I didn't have it.

So my mother waited in line for hours the day it went on sale and got it for me.

For that birthday, my parents also got us tickets to see Nathan Lane and Faith Prince in the landmark 1992 revival of Guys and Dolls on Broadway.

Now, did I have a nervous breakdown in the lobby of the Martin Beck Theater when we got there and found out Faith Prince was out that night and we had to see her understudy?

Yes.

Yes, I did.

But we stayed.

And by the way, her understudy, if you like Broadway shows, her understudy, this was 1992, her understudy was Victoria Clark, who 20 years later becomes a Tony-winning Broadway star in her own right.

So always stay for the understudy.

But I didn't know that as a kid.

After the show, my parents took me to Carmine's, the old Italian restaurant in the theater district, which served everything family style and where I ate what can only be described as a historic amount of bread pudding, probably a serving designed for an entire family and which made me physically ill.

Guys and dolls, the sex book, and nearly throwing up from eating too much bread pudding.

Just a typical night out for the Eichners.

Yet another non-traditional choice my family made was brushing aside the traditional Mother's Day activities of buying flowers and going for a nice brunch to instead once again travel into Manhattan from Queens to see Madonna's documentary, Truth or Dare.

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