There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
BILLY EICHNERWhat 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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It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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I have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.
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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 can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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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I think it’s for people who obviously care about pop culture or know about it, even if it’s to a fault. I think it’s for outsiders.
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I spend the majority of my time in New York and LA. I feel like a large part of my following and my fans are probably in New York and LA because of the work that I do is very New York-LA-centric. So people do recognize me. But it’s nothing overwhelming at all.
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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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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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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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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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I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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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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