We weren’t, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.
BILLY EICHNERThere’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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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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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 can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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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I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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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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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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When I opened my mouth to sing as a kid, I kind of randomly had a really good singing voice. And so that put me on the actor track and the musicals track.
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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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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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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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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 thought it would be funny to go to my Korean dry cleaner and ask her about my head shot, as if it’s the most important thing in the world, and as if it’s something that everyone should weigh on because it’s important to me.
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