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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.

Billy Eichner

A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
BILLY EICHNER

Character Rocks Thinking
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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Country Majority People Sound
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
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.
BILLY EICHNER

Original People Show Thinking Years
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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Culture Outsider Think
I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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Complaining Get Just Miserable
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 EICHNER

Party Want
I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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I Can People Trying
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.
BILLY EICHNER

College Country Struggle
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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Fight Fighting Show Voice Want
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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Caring Eczema Much Too
If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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Moving Next Walks
I am invisible in gay bars.
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Bars Gay Invisible
Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
BILLY EICHNER

Actors Outgoing Sound
I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
BILLY EICHNER

Actors Children Kids Regular Student
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.
BILLY EICHNER

Knew Material Paying Putting Working

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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