His audio “Let’s go lesbians” from Billy On The Street became a popular meme format.
His Full Circle Moment
Disney
Not only was Eichner the voice of the live-action Lion King remake, but he was also a bartender at The Lion King on Broadway in 2002, which Eichner described as a real full circle moment.
How Eichner’s Angry Birds Role Came To Be
Sony
Eichner said, “I had Jason Sudeikis on Billy On The Street and Jason talked about how he was going to be starring as the main voice of the Angry Birds movie, and it had a list of 50 actors in it. Every actor in Hollywood was in the Angry Birds movie. I was the only person not asked to be in the Angry Birds movie. And I’m known for basically being an angry bird, essentially and I was very very hurt that I wasn’t considered. So on Billy On The Street, I went off about why I was not asked to be in the movie and sure enough, the creator of the Angry Birds movie saw it and was like, ‘You know what you’re right you should be in the movie,’ and then they called and gave me like two small parts, they kind of threw me into it. The best part of it was how it came about. I was like, ‘Oh, that’s how I get cast. I just have to go on Billy On The Street and say what role I want and then I get it.’”
A Famous Classmate
Apatow Productions
Billy graduated from Northwestern University in 2000 and told Seth Meyers he was still paying off his loans 17 years later. He said, “I don’t even need the . I need to melt down the gold and take it to a pawn shop.” Eichner has also mentioned how he attended the acting school at the same time as Meghan Markle, although the two never met.
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