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

Thank you.

What do I want them to learn about me?

I think, you know, we're all multidimensional people, you know, and I got known for this very aggressive, confrontational, silly, but confrontational persona.

And like I said, you know, I'm an adult now.

The first Billy on the Street video I ever made was over 20 years ago.

And people don't realize that because it got popular online and then it went to TV.

But I made the first Billy on the Street, what would become known as a Billy on the Street, as part of my live comedy show I was doing with a friend, my best friend, Robin Lord Taylor, who's also an actor.

I started writing a sketch comedy show for us in our early 20s after we graduated Northwestern and we were just struggling actors.

And I didn't know what to do to get an agent.

And so I thought, well, people say I'm funny, so I'm going to write this live show, the sketch show.

And it was a 90-minute show.

And over the course of the show, the persona that I was kind of organically developing on stage started to become increasingly angry about pop culture and about actors and was just furious about movies and just bringing in a rational amount of urgency to pop culture topics.

And people loved it, right?

And so I said to my friend who was directing the show, I said, I have this idea to take this persona

I said, I don't know, maybe it won't work, but what if we go out onto the street?

And I kind of, you know, I'm a New Yorker.

I grew up in New York.

That's a big part of the book.

And in New York, you guys know, hundreds of people are walking down the street and acting like the other people aren't there.

You have to kind of walk with blinders on because that's the only way the city can function with that many people.

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