I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York.
BILLY EICHNERI think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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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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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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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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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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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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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It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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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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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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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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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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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’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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I’m not much of a dancer.
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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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