I have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.
BILLY EICHNERIronically, 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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I am invisible in gay bars.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
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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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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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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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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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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.
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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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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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