A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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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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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I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
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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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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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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’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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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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When I opened my mouth to sing as a kid, I kind of randomly had a really good singing voice. And so that put me on the actor track and the musicals track.
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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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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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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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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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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 thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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