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.
BILLY EICHNERI 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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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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Even when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn’t finding my way in.
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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 think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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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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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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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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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 am invisible in gay bars.
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I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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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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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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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A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone’s scared to take a chance.
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