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Billy Eichner

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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Original People Show Thinking Years
I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
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Actors Children Kids Regular Student
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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Little Looks Mentally People Unbalanced
I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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Complaining Get Just Miserable
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 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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Knew Material Paying Putting Working
I’m not much of a dancer.
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Activity Dancer Happen Much
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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Crazy Fun Nice
A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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Character Rocks Thinking
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
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
Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
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Arbitrary Awards Fun Watches
Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
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Actors Outgoing Sound
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Involved Line Reputation
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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Ensemble Focus Friendship People Season World
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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Children Class Country
I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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Argument People Physically Really
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
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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College Country Struggle
There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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Men People Years
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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Faces Flavored Hurt Sexually Years
I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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I Can People Trying
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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Entertainment Parents People Rich Supported
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.
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Kids Months Oscars
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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Crazy People Thinking
I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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Actors Firsts Performance Singing Traditional
I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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Difficult Lighter Richer Show Think

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