--- title: Billy Eichner Plays 'Hocus Pocus or Trump's White House' description: Billy Eichner not only donned a banana costume for his chat with Stephen Colbert, but came prepared with a Halloween-inspired game. canonical: https://time.com/5003837/billy-eichner-stephen-colbert-hocus-pocus-or-trump-white-house/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-31T16:49:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-12T08:18:51.774Z og:title: Billy Eichner and Stephen Colbert Play a Halloween Trump Game og:description: "Ben Carson believes that it’s real" og:url: https://time.com/5003837/billy-eichner-stephen-colbert-hocus-pocus-or-trump-white-house/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb23f19e1f745ce8f/6988e3fb4ee26252b030f97f/screen-shot-2017-10-31-at-11-45-23-am.png?branch=production&width=1126&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1126 og:image:height: 633 og:image:alt: The-Late-Show-Billy-Eichner-Stephen-Colbert og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Billy Eichner and Stephen Colbert Play a Halloween Trump Game twitter:description: "Ben Carson believes that it’s real" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb23f19e1f745ce8f/6988e3fb4ee26252b030f97f/screen-shot-2017-10-31-at-11-45-23-am.png?branch=production&width=1126&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Billy Eichner Put Stephen Colbert to the Test With a Festive Game of '_Hocus Pocus_ or Trump's White House' > Sponsored content. 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MONEY_  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 31, 2017 4:49 PM UTC MONEY  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 31, 2017 4:49 PM UTC [Billy Eichner](http://time.com/money/4846023/billy-eichner-career-advice/) definitely brought the [Halloween spirit](http://time.com/4994332/halloween-funniest-viral-pranks/) to Monday’s episode of _The Late Show_. The [_American Horror Story_ ](http://time.com/4926673/review-american-horror-story-cult/)not only donned a banana costume for his chat with Stephen Colbert, but came prepared with a festive game to play with the host: “_Hocus Pocus_ or Trump’s White House?” “This is a game I wrote specifically for tonight because Halloween is tomorrow,” he explained. “I would say one of maybe not my favorite movies but a guilty pleasure is the movie _Hocus Pocus_. And _Hocus Pocus_ is like a Halloween classic. And so I wrote a game just for you called ‘_Hocus Pocus_ or Trump’s White House?’ I’m going to give you a fact and you have to tell me if this fact refers to the movie _Hocus Pocus_ or Trump’s White House or both.” Eichner then proceeded to rattle off tidbits such as, “Ben Carson believes that it’s real,” “has inspired Bette Midler to do a lot of screaming and complaining,” and, “seems like it started almost as a joke but now for some reason we have to take it seriously,” as Colbert — who admitted he has never seen _Hocus Pocus_ — struggled to stay on track. Watch the clip below. ## Transcript [00:00] I don't care about your phone. I need some Purell [00:03] some please. I need some Purell. God. My God, [00:07] look at the uglies. Over the years, you receive a lot of [00:10] good advice. The advice that really stuck in my mind [00:13] was Joan Rivers. I was really starting to get frustrated [00:16] because everyone was like, you're this, you're that, [00:18] you're so great, blah, blah, blah. Well no one was [00:21] giving me a job, so how great can I be? But then Joan [00:24] sat me down, over martinis one night, and she said it's [00:28] gonna take one person to pick you up, and [00:32] just put you in the right thing. It turned out, though, [00:35] that I was the person to put me in the thing. I made it [00:39] for myself, and I thought of the show and I pitched it, [00:41] and there were certainly a ton of people that helped [00:44] out, but ultimately, I did it. Scream for an American girl [00:47] doll, You know you basically have to sit yourself down [00:49] and say, alright how badly do I want this career? What [00:52] am I willing to sacrifice for it? How long am I gonna [00:55] stick with it? I had a lot of talented friends who for [01:00] one reason or another, dropped out of the business. [01:02] Or they stuck with it but just Haven't gotten their big [01:06] break yet. Sometimes it happens and sometimes it [01:08] doesn't but, what saved me is that I could create my [01:11] own material. You really need self- awareness. You [01:15] have to be really, really good. You can't be delusional. [01:19] Read the signs. Getting a lot of rejection isn't [01:22] necessarily a sign that you will not be successful. [01:27] You have to know why you're getting rejected. And [01:29] then you can take that information and choose to [01:32] accept it or not. And a casting director can say to you, [01:37] you know what? We don't think you're funny. I'm not a [01:39] Billy Eichner fan. Okay, that's fine but that is not going [01:43] to stop me. You can choose to accept parts of it. [01:46] Sometimes a bad review is right. 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