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 EICHNERIt was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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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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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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.
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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’m not much of a dancer.
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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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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 am invisible in gay bars.
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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 never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
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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 thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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