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.
BILLY EICHNERI have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.
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It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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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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I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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I’m not much of a dancer.
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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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Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
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Sometimes 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 think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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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 thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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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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 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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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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