Billy Eichner on Wanting His ‘Real Voice’ to Be Heard in ‘Extremely Personal’ Audio-Only Memoir and ‘People Begging’ Him to Bring Back ‘Billy on the Street’

By Marc Malkin

Marc Malkin

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Billy Eichner knows he has a reputation for being loud, brash and in-your-face.

When you find fame yelling questions at strangers on New York City streets as he did as the host of “Billy on the Street,” it’s bound to happen.

And that is why his new memoir, “Billy on Billy,” was only released as an audio-only book. “Sometimes people don’t know if [‘Billy on the Street’] is a persona or not,” Eichner tells me over Zoom from his New York City apartment. “I’m 47 years old, and you reach a point where you want people to know you’re a real person and get a sense of the real me and I thought this would be a good opportunity to do that, especially if people could hear it in my real voice.

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