I am invisible in gay bars.
BILLY EICHNERThere have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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It’s crazy. I don’t know how I’m not dead. People think I’m going to get punched in the face: “Something terrible is going to happen to you.
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It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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We’re really fleshing out the whole world of the show [Difficult People]. It’s more of an ensemble now, whereas last season we were very focused on establishing the Billy/Julie friendship.
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The most outrageous thing happened years ago in my YouTube days, when I asked an older lady – it was like a sexually flavored question and she just slapped me full-on across the face. That’s the one time someone got physically aggressive with me. And it hurt.
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What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.
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A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone’s scared to take a chance.
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I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York.
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I like talking to a person who is crazy in a fun, eccentric way. I don’t want to talk to a legitimate crazy person, because that’s not nice.
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We weren’t, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.
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I’d be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.
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I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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Sometimes you go up to people who look totally normal and then you talk to them for a few seconds and you are like, Oh I better get out of this, because this person is a little mentally unbalanced, and they are not going to get a joke.
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