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 EICHNERI think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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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 think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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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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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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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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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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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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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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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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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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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I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn’t get a paying job.
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I like talking to a person who is crazy in a fun, eccentric way. I don’t want to talk to a legitimate crazy person, because that’s not nice.
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