I am invisible in gay bars.
BILLY EICHNERA lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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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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A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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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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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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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 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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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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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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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I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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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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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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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’m not much of a dancer.
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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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