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.
BILLY EICHNERI 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 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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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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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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I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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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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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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I 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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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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We’re really fleshing out the whole world of the show [Difficult People]. It’s more of an ensemble now, whereas last season we were very focused on establishing the Billy/Julie friendship.
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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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A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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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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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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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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