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It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn. Billy Eichner is my first guest this week. He is of course

the host of Billy on the street. The bonkers game show where he runs up and down the streets

of Manhattan yelling questions at strangers.

He's also an actor. He played Craig on Parks and Recreation. He starred alongside Julie

Klausner on the great show Difficult People. He voiced Tim Mone and the recent Lion King

reboot. And of course he's done many other things as well. Now he has written and starred

in his first movie. It's called Bros, might have seen the trailer. It's a romantic comedy

produced by Judd Apatow. It's also a romantic comedy about a same-sex relationship.

Billy Eichner shows features an entirely queer cast, the first of its kind, from a major

studio. Billy stars as Bobby Lieber, a podcast host who also works at an LGBTQ plus history

museum. He's single, never settled down, and one night while he's out, he meets Aaron.

Aaron looks like a decent enough guy fun to hang out with, not especially serious. But

eventually, Bobby sees there's more there. A relationship develops, the relationship gets

put to the test. Will they end up together and live happily ever after? Well, you'll

have to watch Bros to find out. I'm not spoiling it. It is a romantic comedy, though. If

that sounds like a classic rom-com plot, like when Harry Met Sally or Moon struck, it kind

of is. But it also kind of isn't. Bros is true to the world in which it lives, a world

with grinder and poppers and thruples. That's one of the things that makes Bros so

unique and refreshing. It's also part of what makes it really, really funny. Here's a bit

from Bros. This clip comes from early on in the movie, and this scene Bobby played by Eichner

is leaving a date with a guy he met at a club. Bobby asks his date back to the house, and

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