There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
BILLY EICHNERWe 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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It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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It was one of Hulu’s first original shows to really go out there. Now a year has passed, and the second season is getting a great response.
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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’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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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’m not much of a dancer.
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You’re going to get killed.” That’s not what’s going to kill me. The show is going to kill me. The work is going to kill me. Once I’m on the street, I’m not worried about that.
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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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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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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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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There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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Ironically, my rabbi was a bar mitzvah Nazi. So I got bar mitzvahed. And though I didn’t want to, the theme of my bar mitzvah party was Madonna.
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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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