Billy Eichner is addressing the possibility of bringing his popular game show Billy on the Street back.
The 47-year-old actor and comedian hosted the viral street interview-style series from 2011 to 2017, from Funny or Die, and airing on Fuse and truTV.
In the series, Billy would go up to people on the streets of New York City and quiz them about pop culture. He’s even had celebrities as special guests on the show!
During a recent interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast with Josh Horowitz, Billy looked back on the game show and was asked if he would ever bring it back.
“It’s crazy. It has sustained in a very unexpected way,” he noted. “It’s one of those things that you cannot plan for.”
He previously brought the format back briefly with Will Ferrell during Kamala Harris‘ 2024 presidential campaign.
So, could it return again?
“For a while, I was like: ‘I can never do it! I have to draw a line in the sand.’ But people love it, and if you look on the internet, which can be so snarky, including about me, but under Billy on the Street videos, that’s like a different thing,” he said.
“The people who get it, it’s like their favorite thing. And they’re always: ‘Please do more. Please bring the show back. The world is so awful. Please do this.’ And I am very touched by that, and I want to honor that. That’s a very rare thing. It does not give me, as an actor, the creative satisfaction anymore because I’ve been doing it for so long. And it’s not aligned with who I really wanted to be as an artist because it’s not acting in the traditional sense,” Billy added, noting he was “proud” of the show.
The actor and comedian, who recently released his audio-only memoir, “Billy on Billy,” also shared how he’s been figuring out how to have a varied career and the popular street interviews, and how Billy on the Street could look in the future.
“For me, I want to have a more eclectic career. But what I’m always trying to sort of figure out is, ‘Oh, OK, I can do both.’ My therapist would want me to say that. She was like: ‘You can do everything!’” he said. “I’m never going to do half-hour episodes of Billy on the Street again, but we’re always kind of talking about what it could look like. And I don’t know what the answer to that is, but never say never. I don’t know.”
If you missed it, Billy recently revealed a big celeb apologized to him after getting his name wrong.
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