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.
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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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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I’m not much of a dancer.
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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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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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We’re really fleshing out the whole world of the show [Difficult People]. It’s more of an ensemble now, whereas last season we were very focused on establishing the Billy/Julie friendship.
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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 think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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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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There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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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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Even when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn’t finding my way in.
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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 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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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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