It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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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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I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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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 couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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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 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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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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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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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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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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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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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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