I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win.
BILLY EICHNERDifficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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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A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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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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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’m not much of a dancer.
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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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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’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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It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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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 can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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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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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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 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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