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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.

Billy Eichner

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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Entertainment Parents People Rich Supported
A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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Character Rocks Thinking
I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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College Going People
There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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Involved Line Reputation
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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Children Class Country
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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Original People Show Thinking Years
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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Country Jobs Writing
I am invisible in gay bars.
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Bars Gay Invisible
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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College Country Struggle
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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Anything Character Endearing People
There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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Men People Years
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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Careers Hollywood People
I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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Actors Firsts Performance Singing Traditional
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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Knew Material Paying Putting Working
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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Award Lists Make Shows Win
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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Crazy Fun Nice

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 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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