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.
BILLY EICHNERThere have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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I am invisible in gay bars.
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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 started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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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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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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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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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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Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
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I thought it would be funny to go to my Korean dry cleaner and ask her about my head shot, as if it’s the most important thing in the world, and as if it’s something that everyone should weigh on because it’s important to me.
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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 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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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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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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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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A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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