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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.

Billy Eichner

I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
BILLY EICHNER

Difficult Lighter Richer Show Think
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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Country Majority People Sound
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.
BILLY EICHNER

Going Kill Killed Once Street
I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win.
BILLY EICHNER

Award Lists Make Shows Win
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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Entertainment Parents People Rich Supported
A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
BILLY EICHNER

Character Rocks Thinking
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.
BILLY EICHNER

Fight Fighting Show Voice Want
I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some sort of impact. And for me that turned out to be comedy.
BILLY EICHNER

College Country Struggle
I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
BILLY EICHNER

Media People Thinking
Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
BILLY EICHNER

Actors Outgoing Sound
Even when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn’t finding my way in.
BILLY EICHNER

Jobs Struggle Successful
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.
BILLY EICHNER

Kids Months Oscars
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.
BILLY EICHNER

Faces Flavored Hurt Sexually Years
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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Crazy People Thinking
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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Children Class Country
When I opened my mouth to sing as a kid, I kind of randomly had a really good singing voice. And so that put me on the actor track and the musicals track.
BILLY EICHNER

Kids Track Voice

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