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 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.
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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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 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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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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Sometimes 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.
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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 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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I 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.
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I’m not much of a dancer.
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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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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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Even when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn’t finding my way in.
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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 thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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