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.
BILLY EICHNERSometimes 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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I’m not much of a dancer.
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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 couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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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’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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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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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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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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