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.
BILLY EICHNERI’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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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 pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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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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I am invisible in gay bars.
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I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
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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’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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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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’m not much of a dancer.
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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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 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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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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