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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 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
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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Kids Track Voice
I’m not much of a dancer.
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Activity Dancer Happen Much
Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
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Actors Outgoing Sound
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 think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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Difficult Lighter Richer Show Think
I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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Complaining Get Just Miserable
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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Faces Flavored Hurt Sexually Years
It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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Award Kids Winning
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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Cleaner Country Important Shot Something
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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Going Kill Killed Once Street
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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Party Want
I am invisible in gay bars.
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Bars Gay Invisible
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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Award Lists Make Shows Win
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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Original People Show Thinking Years
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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Caring Eczema Much Too
I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York.
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Children Class Country
If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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Moving Next Walks
I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
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Actors Children Kids Regular Student
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
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
I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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Media People Thinking
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 like talking to a person who is crazy in a fun, eccentric way. I don’t want to talk to a legitimate crazy person, because that’s not nice.
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Crazy Fun Nice
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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Jobs Struggle Successful
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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Fight Fighting Show Voice Want

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