I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn’t get a paying job.
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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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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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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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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There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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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 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 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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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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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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I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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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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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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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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I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York.
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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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