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Billy on the Street

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Presented by
  
Billy Eichner

Original language(s)
  
English

No. of episodes
  
54

Country of origin
  
United States

No. of seasons
  
5

Genre
  
Comedy Reality Game show

Billy on the Street with Billy Eichner is an American comedy game show hosted by Billy Eichner. During each episode, Eichner goes out to the streets of New York and asks pedestrians questions about pop culture. Recurring games are "For A Dollar" and "Quizzed in the Face". Eichner is also the executive producer and creator of the series.

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The series premiered December 18, 2011 on Fuse and aired for three seasons. Starting with the fourth season, which premiered on October 8, 2015, the show airs on truTV. The show's fifth season premiered on November 15, 2016.

  • "Quizzed in the Face" is a three round game, first two rounds are 3 questions about pop culture, the final round is one subjective question and it has to match Billy's answer. If they get two wrong of "Quizzed in the Face" they are out.
  • "For A Dollar" is a fast game where Billy asks one question and if they get it right they get the dollar. Also has to match Billy's answer.
  • "Amateur Speed Sketching" is game where the contestant has seconds to draw a celebrity at random. Then they must find another pedestrian to see if they can guess what celebrity was drawn.

    • Russian version

    On Russian Che channel was started local version named Begushchy Kosar (lit. The Running Thousand) which host Alexey Zhirov gives 1 000 rubles for right answer.

    References

    Billy on the Street Wikipedia
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