![]() Photo: Jamel Shabazz for New York Magazine Sidetalk’s Trent Simonian and Jack Byrne with their frequent guest Spider Cuz. Trent Simonian and Jack Byrne show up at 12:30 p.m. The audio clips going viral on TikTok comee from a one-minute NYC street show featured on Instagram, called Sidetalk, hosted by Jack Byrne and Trent. On the dot, just as they said they would. ![]() The Saturday in January is crystalline and frigid, but the two NYU students arrive with open puffer jackets, no gloves, and a “Let’s get right down to business” competence that makes it possible to forget they’re only 19. It’s not what you might expect if you’ve ever seen an episode of their raucous one-minute Instagram show, Sidetalk. For the last few years, Spotify has kept tabs on streaming activity in order to deliver listeners a personalized end-of-year report known as Spotify Wrapped.This feature, which is released every Dec. ![]() Each post begins with the familiar bing-bong sound of the subway’s “Stand clear of the closing doors” recording, but after that, you might find the sloe-eyed Simonian deadpanning into the camera as a disturbed woman screams about Jezebel’s children. Its hosts Tisch junior Trent Simonian and Gallatin junior Jack Byrne always manage to find the craziest corners of New York. The show utilizes a man-on-the-street technique to interview people across New York City with each episode being approximately one minute long, and is noted for its surreal 2 and/or humorous 3 interviews. You might meet a man named Jesus humping a tree in Central Park or a foulmouthed child talking about women with big butts. Sidetalk is an American Instagram show created by Trent Simonian and Jack Byrne. Simonian and Byrne explore the streets of NYC and ask random pedestrians various questions for a new man-on-the-street series on Instagram. On this particular afternoon, their subject is Lil Mo Mozzarella, a proudly Italian aspiring TikTok star who has taken his ostensible mayoral campaign to the streets of Little Italy with his Moncler puffer unzipped and his velvet track pants shimmering. Trent Simonian, a first-year Film major at Tisch (left) and Jack Byrne, a first-year concentrating in Business and Entertainment at Gallatin (right) created Sidetalk NYC. “If I don’t get your vote, don’t let me find out who you are, ’cause I’m comin’ ova there, I’mma crack yoo ova tha head with a loaf of sem-o-leeena!” Mo yells into the camera as he paces the length of Mulberry Street. Simonian, the one with a shock of black Timothée Chalamet hair, is the straight man on-camera. Byrne, who resembles a Kennedy and speaks in the octave of Sam Elliott, is the cameraman, but beyond that, it would be hard to pick apart who’s really doing what - they often finish each other’s sentences. ![]()
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