4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Billy Eichner has had recent roles in Hulu's Difficult People, Netflix's Friends from College, and in the upcoming season of American Horror Story on FX. But it's through his truTV game show, Billy on the Street, that he's in the Emmy race. He tells us about the evolution of his person-on-the-street antics and why not every celebrity is a good fit for the show.
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0:00.0 | From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
0:05.0 | On your way to your job or running for the bus or running to the gym or running to get your child from daycare, |
0:11.1 | I am going to stop you in your tracks and make you talk to me about Kate Blanchette. |
0:15.8 | That premise, while obnoxious to some, is still very funny to me. |
0:22.0 | For years, comedian Billy Eichner has been interrogating strangers on the streets of New York |
0:27.0 | about pop culture in exchange for ridiculous prizes, often with a celebrity in tow. |
0:33.3 | All his badgering has paid off. |
0:35.1 | This year, True TV's Billy on the Street scored its first Emmy nomination for Best Variety Sketch Series. |
0:41.7 | Eichner explains why he won't tell any of his celebrity guests what will be asked of them ahead of time, |
0:46.9 | not even then-first lady Michelle Obama. |
0:49.8 | But first on the news banter, questions surround a death on the set of Deadpool 2. |
0:55.5 | Stick around. It's the business from KCRW. |
1:02.4 | I am joined by my colleague in banter, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter. |
1:06.5 | Hello, Matt. |
1:07.1 | Hi there. |
1:08.0 | So there's going to be some soul searching in the stunt community. |
1:10.8 | It's already underway. |
1:11.9 | We had a tragic situation on Deadpool 2. An African-American female motorcycle racer, a prominent |
1:18.9 | one, S.J. Harris, was killed on the set of Deadpool 2 doing a stunt. And while she was an |
1:26.1 | accomplished motorcycle racer, she had not done stunts before, |
1:30.6 | and she was riding without a helmet, and both of those things are causing, on the record, |
1:35.7 | questioning from members of the stunt person community. Right, a lot of the questioning is |
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