Billy Eichner Told Keegan Michael Key To Name 10 Gay Celebs, But He Only Named 4 (Including Billy)

In a segment from Wednesday night’s episode of Billy On the Street that is wildly funny until it screeches to an uncomfortable halt and suddenly isn’t, host Billy Eichner asks his guest, Keegan Michael Key, to name 10 gay celebrities in 60 seconds.

Now, if you asked me—a gay man—this question, I’d have no problem. “Rosie O’Donnell,” I’d scream. “Robin Roberts! Ellen DeGeneres! Wanda Sykes! Colton Haynes!” (Don’t shake your head at Colton Haynes, please.) I’d follow those with the breathless delivery of five to twenty additional names, which I probably shouldn’t write out here for legal reasons.

But Key, a straight man, had some trouble. This is fine! It’d be hard for me to list 10 straight celebrities if confronted by a shrieking Billy Eichner because I’m convinced that roughly 75% of famous people are gay! But that’s my problem, and this is about Key. In 60 seconds, he only names four gay celebrities, and one of them is the gay man standing in front of him.

When the countdown begins, Key shouts: