--- title: Watch Martin Short Hit The Streets With Billy Eichner for Red Nose Day description: A special 'Billy on the Street' for Red Nose Day canonical: https://time.com/3893966/watch-martin-short-hit-the-streets-with-billy-eichner/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-22T15:23:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:20:12.863Z og:title: Watch Martin Short Hit The Streets With Billy Eichner og:description: A special 'Billy on the Street' for Red Nose Day og:url: https://time.com/3893966/watch-martin-short-hit-the-streets-with-billy-eichner/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Martin Short Hit The Streets With Billy Eichner twitter:description: A special 'Billy on the Street' for Red Nose Day twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Martin Short Hit The Streets With Billy Eichner by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker May 22, 2015 3:23 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker May 22, 2015 3:23 PM UTC You can’t say that Martin Short didn’t try to do his part to raise money for Red Nose Day. The comedy legend hit the sidewalks of Manhattan with Billy Eichner for a special episode of _Billy on the Street_, but unfortunately very few people were willing to cough up some cash for the charity. In the video, which was part of NBC’s imported fundraiser, Red Nose Day, Eichner escorted Short through the city. While normally Eichner will give people a dollar if they [recognize David Letterman](http://time.com/3769025/billy-eichner-david-letterman/), plan to [watch the Emmy Awards](http://time.com/3179533/emmys-2014-billy-eichner-seth-meyers-billy-on-the-street/), [sing with Amy Poehler](http://time.com/71744/amy-poehler-pitbull-mask/), or promise to[ sleep with Paul Rudd](http://time.com/54102/paul-rudd-billy-eichner-new-york/), for this video, Eichner asked for cash for a good cause. While some people might consider it an honor to have Eichner yell at them, others seemed intimidated by the entourage of a yelling Eichner, Short, and a cameraman. Others simply refused to believe that Short was actually _the_ Martin Short and wouldn’t make a donation to an imposter. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3893966/watch-martin-short-hit-the-streets-with-billy-eichner/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3893966/watch-martin-short-hit-the-streets-with-billy-eichner/"},"headline":"Watch Martin Short Hit The Streets With Billy Eichner","datePublished":"2015-05-22T15:23:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:20:12.863Z","description":"A special 'Billy on the Street' for Red Nose Day","url":"https://time.com/3893966/watch-martin-short-hit-the-streets-with-billy-eichner/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Comedy","Viral Videos","billy eichner"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3893966/watch-martin-short-hit-the-streets-with-billy-eichner/","name":"Watch Martin Short Hit The Streets With Billy Eichner"}}]}] ```