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.
BILLY EICHNERA 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.
BILLY EICHNERI think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
BILLY EICHNERI would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win.
BILLY EICHNERIt 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.
BILLY EICHNERI knew what I had to do. I knew I had to keep working at it and keep putting material out there, even if no one was paying me for it.
BILLY EICHNERAward shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
BILLY EICHNEREven when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn’t finding my way in.
BILLY EICHNERA lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
BILLY EICHNERI am invisible in gay bars.
BILLY EICHNERI 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 EICHNERWe weren’t, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.
BILLY EICHNERIf someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
BILLY EICHNERI 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.
BILLY EICHNERSometimes you go up to people who look totally normal and then you talk to them for a few seconds and you are like, Oh I better get out of this, because this person is a little mentally unbalanced, and they are not going to get a joke.
BILLY EICHNERI couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
BILLY EICHNERI have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.
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