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.
BILLY EICHNERI am invisible in gay bars.
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I am invisible in gay bars.
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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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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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A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
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Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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You have to fight. You know, you don’t want to fight, but you have to fight to make your show your own, to make your voice be heard. You just have to sometimes.
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Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
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I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win.
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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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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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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’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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Even when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn’t finding my way in.
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