I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
BILLY EICHNERWhen 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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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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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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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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A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.
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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 couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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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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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 have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.
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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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 think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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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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