I’d be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.
BILLY EICHNERThe 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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I am invisible in gay bars.
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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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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 couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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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 have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.
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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
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