Billy Eichner
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992 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
Billy Eichner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And then I very surprisingly end up getting into Northwestern.
And then I end up going with my dad to visit.
And I sat in on an acting class at Northwestern.
Northwestern is obviously...
a great school in many ways, but it has a really prestigious theater program.
A lot of great actors and also comedians have Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Seth Meyers.
And there's a long, long list of actors that came out of Northwestern.
And also, uh,
lot of comedy people broadway people there's a big musical theater program and i sat in on an acting class at northwestern and i just thought oh i have to go here and uh luckily i was able to do that and we you know we weren't rich people we were like middle-class people but my dad we haven't talked much about my dad well i'll tell the other story but like my dad plays a huge role in the book and he was an older guy he was much older than my mom he was from the bronx
you know and but he always like he never wanted me to like miss out on an opportunity even if we couldn't afford it and he said to me he had this like Bronx accent he said if you want to go to Northwestern you'll go to Northwestern and uh and and I did and uh it was really I had an amazing acting teacher and that really opened me up you know it's where I really leaned into be I was for the I always loved Broadway but I shared that with my parents it's not something as a kid I'd
I mean, I did the school musical and stuff, but like, you know, I was like a kid listening to Stephen Sondheim albums and like Barbra Streisand albums and stuff.
And that's not stuff I shared with like all my friends in junior high school.
But then I got to Northwestern and it was just like all of these like like-minded kids.
We had all been listening to Stephen Sondheim in high school.
And I like, you know, I found my people.
which is a big part of the book.
And I was, comedy was not on my mind at all, which is like another reason that I wanted to do the book because what I end up doing is so different from what I started out wanting to do.
You know, I was like a very like serious, serious actor, you know, and I was in acting class and we were doing Shakespeare and Chekhov and Greek drama and Angels in America and musicals and just everything.
And then when I get to New York later, I kind of
for strategic purposes, was like figuring out a way to break through.
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