I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
BILLY EICHNERI would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win.
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I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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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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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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We weren’t, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.
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I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win.
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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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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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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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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Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
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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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I am invisible in gay bars.
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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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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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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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