Billy Eichner Relieved That Hollywood Made A Gay Rom-Com With His ‘Bros’ After Its Obsession With Hedgehog Movies

Billy Eichner busted out with Bros, the world premiere of the first gay romantic comedy to be made by a major studio, during Universal’s CinemaCon presentation Wednesday.

“And I don’t mean a movie about Buzz Lightyear!” he roared.

And it’s got an all openly LGBTQ cast. “It’s about how hard it is to find another compatible human being to go through life with,” the comedian said.

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“We realize we are in the motion picture business. You don’t think lesbians like Raisinettes?” Eichner quipped. Musing on how hard it is to believe it’s taken until 2022 to get a studio to make a movie about a gay couple, he further joked onstage, “We had two movies about hedgehogs. But let me tell you Vegas, if you like hedgehogs, you’ll love gay people.”

With Universal pairing stars during the CinemaCon presentation with exhibition employees, Eichner took the stage with Jeff Zarrillo, general manager of the AMC Burbank 16.

In the trailer for Bros, which Nicholas Stoller directs off a script he and Eichner co-wrote, Eicher has a podcast where he rants that a big movie producer wants him to write a romantic comedy about a gay people. “Something a straight guy would watch with this girlfriend!” cried Eichner. So what does that entail? “I’m going to do a high-speed chase and make out with Ice Cube? Get butt-f*cked by Jason Momoa while worrying about a volcano?” Eichner jokes.

We see Eichner’s on-screen persona becoming obsessed about a guy (“this motherf*cker is in my head!”….”Are you into one of this ripped idiots who has no positions?”), and then dealing with the high jinks of it all, i.e., a four-guy orgy. There’s also Jim Rash as a boss at Eichner’s workplace, losing it at a company meeting over the lack of celebration in sexual awareness week.

Bros. opens on September 30.