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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.

Billy Eichner

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
There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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Involved Line Reputation
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
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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Culture Outsider Think
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
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
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’m not much of a dancer.
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Activity Dancer Happen Much
I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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Argument People Physically Really
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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Careers Hollywood People
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
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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Anything Character Endearing People
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 couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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Complaining Get Just Miserable
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
I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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College Going People

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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