I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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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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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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 think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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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 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 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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There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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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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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 I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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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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 can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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