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.
BILLY EICHNERI 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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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 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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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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I’m not much of a dancer.
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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’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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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 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 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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I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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I am invisible in gay bars.
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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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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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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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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