Billy Eichner

But I think part of that is my mom having given me that advice at such an early age.

And I recently, to pull clips to promote my book, I recently watched my bar mitzvah video.

which of course was on VHS because it was 1991.

And I had it converted to a digital file, which is so funny.

Now my bar mitzvah video is just in my phone.

So after not really watching it for decades, I can now look at it every single day.

And I was looking at my bar mitzvah video and I had already written the book and talked about how stressed I was at my bar mitzvah and how much it meant to me that it looked exactly the way I wanted it to look, etc.

And then I rewatched the video

And I look stressed out.

I look so stressed, you know?

And I'm like this fat, sweaty Jewish kid, right?

And it's supposed to be my big day.

And it's funny because behind the scenes, I thought I was such a player.

You know, I thought I was like, I think I say in the book, I was like, you know, Luca Guadagnino, like, you know, planning the next shot on the set of his new movie.

I thought I was like such an artist putting this bar mitzvah together.

And then I get there and I'm just... It just doesn't seem like I thought it would seem in my head.

And that's really... You can see the pain on my face, right?

Which is why my mother leaned over and said that to me.

However, my parents are dancing up a storm.

They have never looked happier.